Lesson 13 - Simple CMS in Laravel - Finalizing contact form
In the previous lesson, Simple CMS in Laravel - Contact form, we developed a contact form for our Laravel application.
In today's lesson we will add a controller and routes for the contact form.
Contact form
We have already created an email message. All we have to do is throw ourselves into creating the contact form itself, which will be very simple. Let's start with the controller.
ContactController
We will create an empty controller called ContactController
with
the already known Artisan command make:controller
:
php artisan make:controller ContactController
If you are asking why we are not creating a controller with a single action, remember that the contact form must implement two actions - displaying and processing the form.
ContactRequest
However, before we start editing anything in the given controller, we will prepare the HTTP request class for the
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