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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.