Nebula Sender: Getting Started

Made for Laravel Nova, Nebula Sender is SaaS extension for this Nova tool; allowing for users to:

• Create/manage email drafts
• Save sent messages
• Resend previously sent messages
• More to come...

Requirements

• Existing Laravel Nova (opens new window) installation
• dniccum/custom-email-sender:^3.0 Composer package installed. This does require version 3.X.
• Nebula Sender API Key. This can be attained via the Nebula Sender dashboard.

Configuration

Once you have an API key from the Nebula Sender Dashboard (opens new window), you can simply set it to a Laravel environment variable like so:

NEBULA_SENDER_KEY=neb_key_XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX

Once you have set the variable, simply refresh your page, and the additional feature will be unlocked.

Additional Configuration

Timezone

By default Nebula Sender will use your application's timezone settings; which in most cases is UTC. More than likely this will show activity timestamps that will not make sense to your users. Modify the NEBULA_SENDER_TIMEZONE environment variable with a viable timezone value (opens new window)

For example:

NEBULA_SENDER_TIMEZONE="America/Chicago"

Date Formatting

If you want to change the formatting of the dates returned to your users, set the NEBULA_SENDER_DATE_FORMAT environment variable using PHP's default date formatting (opens new window).

This is the default value:

NEBULA_SENDER_DATE_FORMAT="MMM D, YYYY \a\t h:mm A"

Localization

If you plan on extending this tool's localization features, additional language keys can be found within the resources/lang/vendor/custom-email-sender/nebula-sender.php file.