Lumen PHP Framework - Mailer App

1. install lumen composer global require "laravel/lumen-installer=~1.0"

2. Create new lumen service lumen new mailerapp (named mailerapp)

3. In bootstrap/app.php, uncomment line 81 $app->register(App\Providers\AppServiceProvider::class);

4. In bootstrap/app.php, uncomment line 22 $app->withFacades();

5. In bootstrap/app.php, uncomment line 5 Dotenv::load(__DIR__.'/../');

6. In the terminal require mail composer require illuminate/mail (should download version ~5.1)

   Note: this installs a few other dependencies like swiftmailer

7. Update .env file to have appropriate username/password/etc for MAIL_DRIVER, MAIL_HOST, etc...

8. Add use Illuminate\Support\Facades\Mail; at top of file where Mail will be sent from

9. Take a look at the '/' route where I am sending out a raw mail string to myself

   NOTE: I used the key route to generate a random string that I pasted into my app_key .env because Lumen does not have the key:generate artisan command, but this does not seem to be required.