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When we view our site in a browser, and
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navigate to the Contact page,
the highlight on our navigation changes.
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But it still shows our About content.
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Let's take a look at our routes.php file.
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The first parameter of our git method
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has the name variable
surrounded by square brackets.
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This means,
that the argument is optional, so
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this route will match with or
without the contact.
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I want to set up a new route for
my contact page.
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So I'm going to start by
duplicating this route.
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I need my contact route to
come before the about route.
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Since we saw that the about
route with also match contact.
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Let's change the first
parameter to be /contact.
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Then I'm going to remove the logger, and
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change about to contact-form.
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Now when I visit contact in the browser,
I see the form.
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If I try to submit the contact form,
it gives me an error, method not allowed.
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The only method allowed is get,
let's add a post method.
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I'm going to copy my contact route and
then change the method.
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Instead of get, I'm going use post.
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Now when I post the form,
I see the contact page again.
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When I fill out the form,
nothing new happens.
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I go back to a blank form.
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The first thing I want to do,
is have the form save my values.
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If I open the contact-form.phtml,
I can see that my values here
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are set to use the name,
email and message variables.
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I just need to tell my view
about those variables.
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In my routes file, we can see that
the third parameter is the args array.
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I need to get my post
values into my args array.
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The post details are stored in request.
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GetParsedBody.
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So I need to merge this array with any
other args passed into this route.
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args = array merge (args).
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And my parse body.
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Now when I post the form,
I keep any values I may have entered.
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Next, I'm going to do
some simple validation.
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If the name and email and message are set.
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I want to log the details,
and show the thank you page.
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So, if not, (!empty($args, [name]).
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And not empty ($args [email]),
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and not empty ($args [msg]).
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I'm going to log these details as json,
so $mail = json_encode,
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($args['name']), $args['email'].
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And args msg.
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Next, I'll copy the logger
from our first route.
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I'll change info to notice.
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And then I'll pass
the json_encoded mail variable.
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Now I'm ready to show the thank you page,
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return $this-> view-> render($response,
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'thankyou.phtml' and the $args).
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Let's fill out the form and submit.
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My Message.
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Now we see a thank you message,
and let's check our logs.
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Okay, our message is logged as a notice.
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You probably won't just log your emails,
but
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since Emerson isn't checking emails
anyway, it doesn't really matter.
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You can always set up a mailer
dependency to send mail.
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Check the notes for more details.
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Let's check out some more
routing functionality.
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