/app/Http/Controllers/FormhandlerController.php

<?php

namespace App\Http\Controllers;

use Illuminate\Support\Facades\Mail;
use Illuminate\Support\Facades\Log;
use Illuminate\Support\Facades\Input;
use Request;
use App\Model\ContactFormResponse;
use App\Model\GenericBaseResponse;
use App\Model\BaseResponse;
use Config;
use App\Mail\Webform;
use Illuminate\Support\Facades\View;

class FormhandlerController extends Controller
{
    /**
     * Show the application dashboard.
     *
     * @return \Illuminate\Http\Response
     */
    public function index()
    {
            // Getting all post data
            $a = array();
            if (Request::ajax()) {
                
                $data = Input::all();
                $name = $data['first_name'];
                if (iconv_strlen($name) < 2) {
                    $errorResponse = new ContactFormResponse('f1', Config::get('constants.form.name'));
                    array_push($a, $errorResponse);
                }
                // Field Email
                $email = $data['email'];
                if (!filter_var($email, FILTER_VALIDATE_EMAIL)) {
                    $errorResponse = new ContactFormResponse('f3', Config::get('constants.form.email'));
                    array_push($a, $errorResponse);
                }
                // Field Category
                // Field Message
                $msg = $data['message'];
                if (iconv_strlen($msg) < 10) {
                    
                    $errorResponse = new ContactFormResponse('f5', Config::get('constants.form.message'));
                    array_push($a, $errorResponse);
                    
                }
    
                if (count($a) > 1) {
                    
                    //print_r($message);die;
                    $response = new GenericBaseResponse(Config::get('constants.status.validation_failure'), Config::get('constants.msg.validation_failure'), $a);
                    return json_encode($response);

                } else {
                    // To send HTML mail, the Content-type header must be set
                    $headers[] = 'MIME-Version: 1.0';
                    $headers[] = 'Content-type: text/html; charset=UTF-8';
    
                    // Additional headers
                    $headers[] = 'To: Admin <info@divine-healthcare.uk>';
                    $headers[] = 'From: Cynosure Website <'.$email.'>';
                        
                    if (!isset($subject) || empty($subject)) {
                        $subject = Config::get('constants.form.CONTACT_WEBMAIL');
                    }
                    try
                    {
                        /*Mail::send('emails.welcome', $data, function($message)
                        {
                            $message->from('us@example.com', 'Laravel');
    
                            $message->to('info@sydneyapps.co.uk')->cc('mlambosydney@yahoo.com');
    
                            $message->attach($pathToFile);
                        });*/
                       /* */
                        
                        $emailcontent = array(
                            'subject' => $subject,
                            'msg' => $data['message'],
                            //'category' => $data['category'],
                            'name' => $data['first_name'],
                            'email'=> $data['email']
                        );
                        /*
                       Mail::send('emails.contacthtml', $emailcontent, function($message) {
                           $message->to('mlambosydney@yahoo.com', 'Receiver Name');
                           $message->subject('This is the subject');
                       });*/
                    $view = View::make('emails.contacthtml', $emailcontent)->render();
                   //TODO : REMOVE THE COMMENS 
                   // mail('info@divine-healthcare.uk', $subject, $view, implode("\r\n", $headers));
                    
                    $headers[] = 'MIME-Version: 1.0';
                    $headerse[] = 'Content-type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1';
                    // Additional headers
                    $headerse[] = 'To: <'.$email.'>';
                    $headerse[] = 'From: Divine Healthcare <no-reply@divine-healthcare.uk>';
                    //mail($email, 'We received your message below.', $view, implode("\r\n", $headerse));
    
                    } catch (Exception $e) {
                        $response = new BaseResponse(Config::get('constants.status.success'), 'An exception occured.');
                        Log::critical($e->getMessage());
                        return json_encode($response);
                    }

                    $response = new BaseResponse(Config::get('constants.status.success'), Config::get('constants.msg.success'));
                    return json_encode($response);
                    
                }
            }
        }
    
}