README

Version: v2.0.0
Author: Akhil Vijay & Sreejith P
Company: Soft and Tech Solutions
License: MIT

Description

A simple Contact Us form for customer queries. This package allows users to submit inquiries or feedback via a contact form. Additionally we provide a configuration page to customize the mail template. Additionally contact_conf is now depretiated

Features

• Easy to integrate Contact Us form for Laravel users
• Easy Integration
• No API required
• Sends customer queries to a specified email
• Stores contact form data in the database
• Customizable email content

Installation

To install this package, use the following steps:

1. Clone the repository to your Laravel project or use commmand

       composer require softandtech/contactus
   

2. Publish the files to your working project:

        php artisan vendor:publish --provider="SoftAndTech\ContactUs\ContactUsServiceProvider"
   
   

3. Check new folders and files are added to your 'view' foldwrs and 'public' folders

       ..views
           |vendor
               |contactus 
   

4. update your env files

       MAIL_MAILER=smtp
       MAIL_HOST=smtp.gmail.com
       MAIL_PORT=587
       MAIL_USERNAME=<user-name>
       MAIL_PASSWORD=<your-password>
       MAIL_ENCRYPTION=tls
       MAIL_FROM_ADDRESS="your@mail.com"
       MAIL_FROM_NAME="${APP_NAME}"
   

5. Navigate links

       yourdomain.com/contactus_settings  // for settings
       yourdomain.com/contact_us  // for contact us form if you want to run the form directly
   
   or
   
   Include the contact form wherwever you want.
   
   ```php
       @include('contactus::contact')

6. Run migration This package requires 2 tables. One for configuration and other for saving customer's contact data.

      php artisan migrate
   

7. Clear config and cache ,view and route

       php artisan config:clear
       php artisan cache:clear
       php artisan view:clear
       php artisan optimize
       php artisan route:clear
   
   

8. Initilize settings

   From your browser, go to 'yourdomain.com/contactus_settings' and save your configuratrion before running the contact us form.

9. If you want to add 'auth' requirements, just wrap the middleware to the routes in Contactus\vendor\softandtech\contactus\src\routes\web.php