The Laravel Error Notifier package sends you an email and a slack notification whenever 500 internal server errors happen in your application. This package only works for laravel 8 and 9.

How to install

Run this command in the terminal.

composer require jgodstime/laravel-error-notifier

In your /app/Exceptions/Handler.php file, in the register method, add \ErrorNotifier\Notify\Helper::getError($e); this must be inside reportable callback

    public function register()
    {
    	$this->reportable(function (Throwable  $e)  {
    		 \ErrorNotifier\Notify\Helper::getError($e);
    	});
    }

Disable Instant Notification

By default this package sends a notification immediately after the error occurred i.e without waiting for the users description of the error, you can disable this by adding
NOTIFIER_INSTANT=false in your .env file.

Publish the vendor files

php artisan vendor:publish --provider="ErrorNotifier\Notify\ErrorNotifierServiceProvider"

Now the vendor files are published in their respective paths

Setup your email driver

To set up your email driver, you can use mailtrap for test purposes.

    MAIL_DRIVER=smtp
    MAIL_HOST=smtp.mailtrap.io
    MAIL_PORT=587
    MAIL_USERNAME=528a733...
    MAIL_PASSWORD=73c29...
    MAIL_ENCRYPTION=tls
    MAIL_FROM_ADDRESS=mygoogle@gmail.com
    MAIL_FROM_NAME="${APP_NAME}"

Add your slack webhook (Optional)

To set up your slack webhook URL

LOG_SLACK_WEBHOOK_URL=https://hooks.slack.com/services/T....

To test this, simply add $array[‘key1’] = ‘john’; $data = $array[‘key2’]; in one of your routes, then hit the route In your browser.

    Route::get('/convert/file', function(){
    	 $array['key1'] = 'john';
        $data  = $array['key2'];
    });

Notice that we are trying to access an array with key2 that doesn’t exist, this will throw an error and the package will send the error as a notification to your email as well as the trace.

Also, you must turn APP_DEBUG=false in your .env file.

Send Email to Multiple Recipients

You can send notifications to multiple recipients by adding multiple emails as a string in a comma-separated format without space

NOTIFIER_EMAIL="hello1@example.com,hello2@example.com"

Change Redirect Page URL
You can change the page user is taken to after submitting the form, by default it goes to the home page (/)

NOTIFIER_REDIRECT_URL='/thank-you'

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