Laravel mail notification

Question

With Laravel 5.3, I can define recipient in a Notification:

// In a class extending Illuminate\Notifications\Notification :

public function toMail($notifiable)
{
    return (new MailMessage)->line('hello')->to('[email protected]');
}

Since Laravel 5.4 (relevant commit), I can't use to. How can I update my code? I need to send a notification to an email which is not bound to a user nor an object. How to "hack" these missing functionality?

Answer 1

Create a minimal class with an email property:

class MyNotifiable
{
    use \Illuminate\Notifications\Notifiable;

    public $email;

    public function __construct($email)
    {
        $this->email = $email;
    }
}

Then call notify on your minimal class:

(new MyNotifiable('[email protected]'))->notify(new MyNotification);

And it works.