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The "Laravel Email Exceptions" package, based on Aaron Brigham's Laravel 5.x package (https://github.com/abrigham1/laravel-email-exceptions), is designed to give developers an easy way to email debug information to themselves whenever an exception is thrown in their application. Information provided by default is:

Environment
Exception/Error Remote Url
Exception/Error Remote IP
Exception/Error Data Dump of Request
User Name and Email, if a user is authenticated
UserAgent of Browser
Exception/Error Class
Exception/Error Message
Exception/Error Code
File and Line Number
Stack Trace

Installation
Configuration
Basic Usage
Advanced Usage
- Changing the view
- Adding Arbitrary don't email logic
Gotchas
Bugs and Feedback
License

Installation

You can install this plugin into your laravel 8.x/9.x application using composer.

Run the following command

composer require berndengels/laravel-email-exceptions

Then in app/Exceptions/Handler.php replace

use Illuminate\Foundation\Exceptions\Handler as ExceptionHandler;

with

use Bengels\LaravelEmailExceptions\Exceptions\EmailHandler as ExceptionHandler;

Configuration

To publish the config file, view and tests run the following command

php artisan vendor:publish --provider="Bengels\LaravelEmailExceptions\EmailExceptionsServiceProvider"

That will create a config file for you in config/laravelEmailExceptions.php and a view in resources/views/vendor/laravelEmailExceptions/emailExceptions.blade.php

Default configuration:

'ErrorEmail' => [
    'email' => true,
    'dontEmail' => [],
    'throttle' => false,
    'throttleCacheDriver' => env('CACHE_DRIVER', 'file'),
    'throttleDurationMinutes' => 5,
    'dontThrottle' => [],
    'globalThrottle' => true,
    'globalThrottleLimit' => 20,
    'globalThrottleDurationMinutes' => 30,
    'toEmailAddress'    => explode(',', env('EXCEPTION_TO_EMAIL_ADDRESS', null)) ?? null,
    'fromEmailAddress'  => env('EXCEPTION_FROM_EMAIL_ADDRESS', null),
    'emailSubject'      => env('EXCEPTION_EMAIL_SUBJECT', null)
]

In your .env file please set values for:

EXCEPTION_TO_EMAIL_ADDRESS (one email address or comma separated list of email addresses)
EXCEPTION_FROM_EMAIL_ADDRESS (string)
EXCEPTION_EMAIL_SUBJECT (string)

email (bool) - Enable or disable emailing of errors/exceptions
dontEmail (array) - This works exactly like laravel's $dontReport variable documented here: https://laravel.com/docs/8.x/errors#the-exception-handler under Ignoring Exceptions By Type. Keep in mind also any exceptions under laravel's $dontReport also will not be emailed
throttle (bool) - Enable or disable throttling of exception emails. Throttling is only performed if its been determined the exact same exception/error has already been emailed by checking the cache. Errors/Exceptions are determined to be unique by exception class + exception message + exception code
throttleCacheDriver (string) - The cache driver to use for throttling, by default it uses CACHE_DRIVER from your env file
throttleDurationMinutes (int) - The duration in minutes of the throttle for example if you put 5 and a BadMethodCallException triggers an email if that same exception is thrown again it will not be emailed until 5 minutes have passed
dontThrottle (array) - This is the same as dontEmail except provide a list of exceptions you do not wish to throttle ever even if throttling is turned on
globalThrottle (bool) - Enable or disable whether you want to globally throttle the number of emails you can receive of all exception types by this application
globalThrottleLimit (int) - The the maximum number of emails you want to receive in a given period.
throttleDurationMinutes (int) - The duration in minutes of the global throttle for example if you put in 30 and have 10 for your globalThrottleLimit when the first email is sent out a 30 minute timer will commence once you reach the 10 email threshold no more emails will go out for that 30 minute period.
toEmailAddress (string|array) - The email(s) to send the exceptions emails to such as the dev team dev@yoursite.com
fromEmailAddress (string) - The email address these emails should be sent from such as noreply@yoursite.com.
emailSubject (string) - The subject of email, leave NULL to use default Default Subject: An Exception has been thrown on APP_URL APP_ENV

Note: the dontReport variable from app/Exceptions/Handler.php file will also not be emailed as it's assumed if they are not important enough to log then they also are not important enough to email

Important: You must fill out a toEmailAddress and fromEmailAddress or you will not receive emails.

Basic Usage

Basic Config

Update your config values in config/laravelEmailExceptions.php

'ErrorEmail' => [
    'email' => true,
    'dontEmail' => [],
    'throttle' => true,
    'throttleCacheDriver' => env('CACHE_DRIVER', 'file'),
    'throttleDurationMinutes' => 5,
    'dontThrottle' => [],
    'globalThrottle' => true,
    'globalThrottleLimit' => 20,
    'globalThrottleDurationMinutes' => 30,
    'toEmailAddress' => explode(',', env('EXCEPTION_TO_EMAIL_ADDRESS', 'dev@yoursite.com')),
    'fromEmailAddress' => env('EXCEPTION_FROM_EMAIL_ADDRESS', 'noreply@yoursite.com'),
    'emailSubject' => env('EXCEPTION_EMAIL_SUBJECT', null),
]

Throttling

Both throttling and global throttling are put in place in an attempt to prevent spam to the dev team. Throttling works by creating a unique cache key made from exception class + exception message + exception code. Its aim is to prevent duplicate exceptions from being reported via email giving the team time to fix them before they are reported again.

Global Throttling

Global throttling is a similar idea except it's put in place to prevent more then a certain number of emails going out within a given time period. This should typically only be necessary for an app wide failure ex major portions of the site are down so many varied types of exceptions are coming in from all directions.

Advanced Usage

Changing the view

If you published your view using the command above you will be able to change the look of the exception email by modifying your view in resources/views/vendor/laravelEmailExceptions/emailException.blade.php

Adding Arbitrary don't email logic

If you need more complicated logic then just checking instanceof against the thrown exception there is a convenient hook for adding arbitrary logic to decide if an exception should be emailed.

In app/Exceptions/Handler.php implement the function appSpecificDontEmail(Exception $exception) ex.

<?php
class Handler extends ExceptionHandler
{
    protected function appSpecificDontEmail(Exception $exception)
    {
        // add logic here to determine if exception should be emailed return true
        // if it should and return false if it should not
    }
}

Gotchas

If you're having trouble getting this working first make sure you have configured your application to send mail correctly. One of the easiest ways to get mail up and running is by signing up for a free account on mailtrap.io. Once you've done that you'll have to update your .env file with values like these replacing the username and password with those listed in your demo inbox

MAIL_DRIVER=smtp
MAIL_HOST=smtp.mailtrap.io
MAIL_PORT=2525
MAIL_USERNAME=your-user-string
MAIL_PASSWORD=your-password-string
MAIL_ENCRYPTION=null

Bugs and Feedback

http://github.com/berndengels/laravel8-email-exceptions/issues

License

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.

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