fbf/laravel-contact-form

A Laravel 4 package for adding a simple contact form to a website

Laravel Contact Form

A Laravel 4 package for adding a simple contact form to a website, _(*1)

Features

• Partial for a contact form, that you can include in your own views
• Form fields are configurable e.g. name, email and message
• Controller action to handle the submission of the forms, which can handle normal (redirects to previous page), or AJAX requests (responds with JSON with status code and message)
• Translation approach for customising labels, buttons, feedback messages and validation errors
• Enquiry is emailed to a single configurable email address
• Twitter bootstrap compatible markup and class names for the form

Installation

Add the following to you composer.json file, _(*2)

"fbf/laravel-contact-form": "dev-master"

Run, _(*3)

composer update

Add the following to app/config/app.php, _(*4)

'Fbf\LaravelContactForm\LaravelContactFormServiceProvider'

Publish the config, then edit it accordingly, _(*5)

php artisan config:publish fbf/laravel-contact-form

Ensure the settings in app/config/mail.php are correct, _(*6)

Configuration

The URI of contact page, _(*7)

'uri' => 'contact',

The view of the contact page (you can set this to be a view in your app, which has much more contact on it for example, then include the partial for the form, e.g. @include('laravel-contact-form::form')), _(*8)

'view' => 'laravel-contact-form::contact',

The fields and rules for your form, _(*9)

'fields' => array(
    'title' => array(
        'type' => 'select',
        'choices' => array(
            '' => 'Please select',
            'Mr' => 'Mr',
            'Mrs' => 'Mrs',
            'Miss' => 'Miss',
            'Ms' => 'Ms',
            'Dr' => 'Dr',
            'Other' => 'Other',
        ),
    ),
    'first_name' => array(
        'type' => 'text',
    ),
    'last_name' => array(
        'type' => 'text',
    ),
    'email' => array(
        'type' => 'text',
    ),
    'enquiry' => array(
        'type' => 'textarea',
    ),
),

'rules' => array(
    'title' => 'required',
    'first_name' => 'required',
    'last_name' => 'required',
    'email' => 'required|email',
    'enquiry' => 'required',
),

The mail configuration options speak for themselves..., _(*10)

'mail' => array(
    'views' => array(
        'laravel-contact-form::emails.html.enquiry',
        'laravel-contact-form::emails.text.enquiry',
    ),
    'to' => array(
        'name' => 'Customer Services Manager',
        'email' => 'customer.services@company.com',
    ),
    'subject' => 'Website Enquiry',
),

Usage

Customise the options in the config file and then add the following to the view file that you specified in the config to render the contact form inside it., _(*11)

@include('laravel-contact-form::form')