Creating a simple contact form in Laravel 5.4

Question

I am working on a website in which I am creating a simple contact form in Laravel 5.4

I have used the following in SendMailable class:

<?php
namespace App\Mail;

use Illuminate\Bus\Queueable;
use Illuminate\Mail\Mailable;
use Illuminate\Queue\SerializesModels;
use Illuminate\Contracts\Queue\ShouldQueue;

class SendMailable extends Mailable
{
    use Queueable, SerializesModels;
    public $fullname,$phone,$email,$description;
    /**
     * Create a new message instance.
     *
     * @return void
     */
    public function __construct($fullname, $phone, $email,$description)
    {
        $this->fullname = $fullname;
        $this->phone = $phone;
        $this->email = $email;
        $this->description = $description;
    }
    /**
     * Build the message. THIS WILL FORMAT YOUR OUTPUT
     *
     * @return $this
     */
    public function build()
    {
        return $this->view('email.posting-message')->subject('Contact Us Subject');
    }
}

And in controller I am using the following:

<?php 
Namespace App\Http\Controllers;
use View;
use Illuminate\Http\Request;
use Illuminate\Support\Facades\Mail;
use App\Http\Controllers\Controller;
use App\Mail\SendMailable;
use Illuminate\Support\Facades\Redirect; 

class PostingMessageController extends Controller
{
    public function showContactUs()
    {
        $data = [];
       return View::make('emails.posting-message',$data);
    }

    public function doContactUs(Request $r)
    {
     $fullname = $r->get('fullName');
     $phone    = $r->get('phone');
     $email    = $r->get('email');
     $description = $r->get('message');
     Mail::to('RECEIVER_EMAIL_ADDRESS')->send(new SendMailable($fullname, $phone, $email, $description));

      if (Mail::failures())
      {
        $message1 = " Something Went Wrong.";
      }
      else
      {
        $message2 = " Message Sent Successfully.";
      }


   return redirect()->route('route_name')->with([
            'warning' => $message1,
            'success' => $message2
        ]);
   }
}

The blade emails.posting-message has the following content:

<div> 
<p>Fullname : {{ $this->fullname }}</p> 
<p>Phone No. : {{ $this->phone }}</p> 
<p>Email Address : {{ $this->email }}</p> 
<p>Destination : {{ $this->destination }}</p> 
<p>Description : {{ $this->description }}</p> 
<hr> 
<p>Thank you for your Query. We'll get back to you within 24 Hours. </p> 
</div>

In the routes, I am using the following:

Route::get('posting-message', 'PostingMessageController@showContactUs')->name('route_name');
Route::post('posting-message', 'PostingMessageController@doContactUs')->name('route_name');

Problem Statement:

The error which I am getting now is Undefined property: Illuminate\View\Engines\CompilerEngine::$fullname (View: /home/vagrant/code/search/resources/views/emails/posting-message.blade.php) I am not sure why I am getting this error as I have made the definition of it.

Answer 1

As per the documentation, the properties in you SendMailable class that are public will be automatically made available in your blade file.

You can then access those properties as if you'd passed them in the data array i.e. in your blade file change $this->fullname to just $fullname.

You're blade file should then look something like:

<div>
    <p>Fullname : {{ $fullname }}</p>
    <p>Phone No. : {{ $phone }}</p>
    <p>Email Address : {{ $email }}</p>
    <p>Destination : {{ $destination }}</p>
    <p>Description : {{ $description }}</p>
    <hr>
    <p>Thank you for your Query. We'll get back to you within 24 Hours. </p>
</div>

---

If you're going to be using the get route you have set up to see what it looks like in the browser then you'll need to add some dummy data to the array that is getting passed to the view.

public function showContactUs()
{
    $data = [
        'fullname'    => 'John Doe',
        'phone'       => '123456',
        'email'       => 'john.doe@example.com',
        'destination' => 'somewhere far, far away',
        'description' => 'blah blah blah',
    ];

   return View::make('emails.posting-message',$data);
}