I have contact form in Laravel blade:
<div id="contactform">
<meta name="_token" content="{{ csrf_token() }}" />
<ul>
@foreach($errors->all() as $error)
<li>{{ $error }}</li>
@endforeach
</ul>
{{ Form::open(array('route' => 'contact_store', 'id' => 'contact', 'name' => 'contact')) }}
<input type="text" id="firstName" name="firstName" placeholder="{{ trans('index.first_name') }}" class="required" />
<input type="text" id="lastName" name="lastName" placeholder="{{ trans('index.last_name') }}" class="required" />
<input type="text" id="email" name="email" placeholder="{{ trans('index.email') }}" class="required email" />
<textarea id="message" name="message" cols="40" rows="5" placeholder="{{ trans('index.message') }}" class="required"></textarea>
<input id="submit" class="send_it" name="submit" type="submit" value="{{ trans('index.submit_button') }}" />
{{Form::close()}}
<div id="response"></div>
<div id="loading"><img src="images/loader.gif" alt="loader"></div>
</div>
I have my routes set in routes.php:
Route::get('/', 'HomeController@index');
Route::post('/',
['as' => 'contact_store', 'uses' => 'HomeController@store']);
I have jQuery validator validation set and it works correctly. When validation is passed I'm calling ajax to send data.
$('#submit').click( function(e) {
$.ajaxSetup({
header:$('meta[name="_token"]').attr('content')
})
e.preventDefault;
if( $('#contact').valid() ) {
ajaxSubmit();
}
else {
$('label.error').hide().fadeIn('slow');
}
});
});
function ajaxSubmit() {
$('#loading').show();
$('#submit').attr('disabled', 'disabled');
var firstName = $('#firstName').val();
var lastName = $('#lastName').val();
var email = $('#email').val();
var message = $('#message').val();
var data = 'firstName=' +firstName+ '&lastName=' +lastName+ '&email=' +email+ '&message=' +message;
$.ajax({
url: '/',
type: 'get',
dataType: 'json',
data: data,
cache: false,
success: function(response) {
$('#loading, #contact, .message').fadeOut('slow');
$('#response').html('<h3>'+Lang.get('index.email_sent')+'</h3>').fadeIn('slow');
},
error: function(jqXHR, textStatus, errorThrown) {
$('#loading').fadeOut('slow');
$('#submit').removeAttr('disabled');
$('#response').text('Error Thrown: ' +errorThrown+ '<br>jqXHR: ' +jqXHR+ '<br>textStatus: ' +textStatus ).show();
}
});
return false;
}
And in my controller I have:
namespace App\Http\Controllers;
use Illuminate\Http\Request;
use App;
use App\Http\Requests;
use App\Http\Requests\ContactFormRequest;
use Mail;
class HomeController extends Controller
{
public function index()
{
return view('index');
}
public function store(ContactFormRequest $request)
{
Mail::send('email.mail',
[
'name' => $request->get('firstName'),
'email' => $request->get('email'),
'message' => $request->get('message')
], function($message)
{
$message->from($request->get('email'));
$message->to('mymail@gmail.com')->subject('Contact form');
});
$response = [
'status' => 'success',
'msg' => 'Mail sent successfully',
];
return response()->json([$response], 200);
}
}
And in my ContactFormRequest.php I have:
public function authorize()
{
return true;
}
public function rules()
{
return [
'firstName' => 'required',
'lastName' => 'required',
'email' => 'required|email',
'message' => 'required|min:10'
];
}
}
And I configured config/mail.php:
'driver' => env('MAIL_DRIVER', 'smtp'),
'host' => env('MAIL_HOST', 'smtp.gmail.com'),
'port' => env('MAIL_PORT', 465),
'from' => ['address' => null, 'name' => null],
'encryption' => env('MAIL_ENCRYPTION', 'ssl'),
'username' => env('mymail@gmail.com'),
'password' => env('mypass'),
'sendmail' => '/usr/sbin/sendmail -bs',
I added blade file called mail.blade.php in resources/views/email.
Validation that I set in js with jquery validator works good, but when validation is ok and it comes to part when ajax needs to be send I got error:
Error Thrown: SyntaxError: Unexpected token < in JSON at position 0
jqXHR: [object Object]
textStatus: parsererror
I think json from controller is not passed well but I can't figure out how to fix it.
