Laravel 6 contact form tutorial

Contact form is most often an important part of any website. If you are a new Laravel developer then this post will help you to learn a step by step process for how to make a contact us form and submit for sending an e-mail to your desired email address. To send e-mail from a contact form we need to know about how to send e-mail in Laravel framework. In Laravel framework, e-mail sending is really simple. We can send e-mail in various way with same e-mail API that Laravel provides. Before we start, I'll recommend you to read a previous post on sending email laravel. Let's make a contact form in using Laravel so that user can send an email by our website contact form.

Table of Content

• Make routes
• Create a contact form
• Make a controller for handle form request
• Contact form validation
• Mail configuration
• Test the contact form

Make routes

Let's define 2 routes in web.php file in routes directory of Laravel project.

Route::get('contact-us','ContactUsController@index');
Route::post('contact-us','ContactUsController@handleForm');

Create a contact form

Now make a contact.blade.php file in resources/views folder and do the contact form markup.

<form action="{{ ur1('contact-us')" method="post"› 

    @csrf
    <div class="form-group"›
       <label>Name</label>
       <input type="text" name="name" class="form-contror"> 
    </div>
	
    <div class="form-group"›
       <label>E-mail</label>
       <input type="email " name="email " class="form-control">
    </div>
	
    <div class="form-group"›
       <label>Message</label>
       <textarea name="message_body" class="form-control"></textarea>
    </div>
	
    <button type="submit" class="btn btn-primary">Submit</button>

</form>

Make a controller for handle form request

Make a contact form handler controller via artisan command.

php artisan make:controller ContactUsController

<?php
namespace App\Http\Controllers;
use Illuminate\Http\Request;
use App\Http\Requests;
use Mail;

class ContactUsController extends Controller
{
    public function index()
    {
        return view('contact');
    }

    public function handleForm(Request $request)
    {

        $this->validate($request, ['name' => 'required', 'email' => 'required|email', 'message_body' => 'required|min:20']);

        $data = ['name' => $request->get('name') , 'email' => $request->get('email') , 'messageBody' => $request->get('message_body') ];

        Mail::send('email', $data, function ($message) use ($data)
        {
            $message->from($data['email'], $data['name']);
            $message->to('info@laravelarticle.com', 'Admin')
                ->subject('Laravel Article Feedback');
        });

        return redirect()
            ->back()
            ->with('success', 'Thank you for your feedback')

    }

}

Mail Configuration

Set mail credentials on env

MAIL_DRIVER=smtp
MAIL_HOST=smtp.gmail.com
MAIL_PORT=587
MAIL_USERNAME= email_address
MAIL_PASSWORD= email_pass
MAIL_ENCRYPTION=tls

create an e-mail template for sending it on mail. Create a blade file name with email.blade.php in resources/views/emails

Message from : {{ $name }}
<p> Name: {{ $name }}</p>
<p>E-mail: {{ $email }}</p>
<p>Message: {{ $messageBody }}</p>

Test the contact form

Now browse http://example.com/contact-us and fill up the name, email, message and submit the form. If you set up everything correctly then you will get an e-mail into your mail address.

Conclusion

Thank you for reading this tutorial post with patience. I hope, this tutorial post will help you to make contact feedback form on your website. If this post is helpful to you then please share it with others.