Laravel 5 Send Errors to Email

EDIT: I found a 3rd party log system built for Laravel

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Very nice solution, doesn't email me, but this works for what I need.

I played around with this and went through the Laravel core files and came up with something similar to what you see on an error page.

You just need to create a view file that echos out $content for the email

public function report(\Exception $e)
{
    if ($e instanceof \Exception) {

        $debugSetting = Config::get('app.debug');

        Config::set('app.debug', true);
        if (ExceptionHandler::isHttpException($e)) {
            $content = ExceptionHandler::toIlluminateResponse(ExceptionHandler::renderHttpException($e), $e);
        } else {
            $content = ExceptionHandler::toIlluminateResponse(ExceptionHandler::convertExceptionToResponse($e), $e);
        }

        Config::set('app.debug', $debugSetting);

        $data['content'] = (!isset($content->original)) ? $e->getMessage() : $content->original;

        Mail::queue('errors.emails.error', $data, function ($m) {
            $m->to('[email protected]', 'Server Message')->subject('Error');
        });
    }

    return parent::report($e);
}

You can do this by catching all the errors in the App\Exceptions\Handler::report(). So in you App/Exceptions/Handler.php add a report function if its not already there.

/**
 * Report or log an exception.
 *
 * This is a great spot to send exceptions to Sentry, Bugsnag, etc.
 *
 * @param  \Exception  $e
 * @return void
 */
public function report(\Exception $e)
{
    if ($e instanceof \Exception) {
        // emails.exception is the template of your email
        // it will have access to the $error that we are passing below
        Mail::send('emails.exception', ['error' => $e->getMessage()], function ($m) {
            $m->to('your email', 'your name')->subject('your email subject');
        });
    }

    return parent::report($e);
}

If you need more info, refer to laravel documentation form mailer and errors.