I'm trying to make a contact form. Main idea is user will send data, I will save the data to database, I will get the data from database, I will send the data as an email.

I was following a tutorial -> https://www.positronx.io/laravel-contact-form-example-tutorial/

When I tried to reach classes on my controller it can not find it.

Controller says this

But I have the file here

When I run the code I'm having this -> Cannot instantiate abstract class Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\Model

ContactUsFormController.php

namespace App\Http\Controllers;

use Illuminate\Http\Request;
use app\Models\Contact;
use Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\Model;
use Illuminate\Support\Facades\Mail;

class ContactUsFormController extends Controller
{
    //create contact form
    public function createForm(Request $req){
        return view('contact');
    }
    //store contact form data
    public function ContactUsForm(Request $req){
        //form validation 
        $this->validate($req,[
            'name' => 'required',
            'email' => 'required | email',
            'subject' => 'required',
            'message' => 'required'
        ]);
        //store data in database
        Model::create($req->All());
        //send mail to admin
        Mail::send('mail',array(
            'name' => $req->get('name'),
            'email' => $req->get('email'),
            'subject' => $req->get('subject'),
            'message' => $req->get('message')
        ),function($message) use ($req){
            $message->from($req->email);
            $message->to('[email protected]','admin')->subject($req->get('subject'));
        });
        return back()->with('success', 'We have recieved your message');
    }
}

This one making me thinking. In the tutorial he didn't write a single code into this file but still calling a class from there. app\Mails\contact.php

<?php
namespace App\Mail;
use Illuminate\Bus\Queueable;
use Illuminate\Contracts\Queue\ShouldQueue;
use Illuminate\Mail\Mailable;
use Illuminate\Queue\SerializesModels;
class contact extends Mailable
{
    use Queueable, SerializesModels;
    public function __construct()
    {
        //
    }
  public function build()
    {
        return $this->view('view.name');
    }
}

app\Models\Contact.php

namespace App\Mail;
use Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\Factories\HasFactory;
use Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\Model;
class Contact extends Model
{
    use HasFactory;
    public $fillable = ['name', 'email', 'subject', 'message'];

}

Do I have a typo? What I am missing? Sorry I'm a beginner

CodePudding user response：

the issue you call Model::create(); model is just an abstract class, not your concrete model

replace

Model::create($req->All());

with

Contact::create($req->All());

also change namespace App\Mail; in your Contact model to namespace App\Models;

to know more information about Mail facade check this

https://laravel.com/docs/9.x/mail#sending-mail

I hope it's useful

CodePudding user response：

For achieving this follow the below steps

1: make two routes one for displaying a form of type get and one for submitting the form of type post

2: connect your route to a controller method in route closure as follow

Route::get('/contact',function(){
   return view('contact');
})->name('contact');

3: redirect your form to post route

<form action="{{ route('contact') }}">
 <!-- form input goes here -->
</form>

4: catch the form in route

Route::get('/contact',function(){

// I am storing data to variable to be clear for you

   $name = request()->name
   $lastName = request()->lastName
   $email= request()->email
   $phone = request()->phone

   // save the data to the database then send it to email
});

the process of storing data and email configuration is wast topic please visit larave doc to learn about it more