Unable to post form data to controller function

Need Help
1

I have a contact us form and user enter data and submits it. This data needs to accessed in controller function so I can send a mail to admin informing about the user request recently received.

But when I press submit button, nothing happens. Form just reloads and the contactus form (view page) is shown to the users. I don’t know why the data is not getting passed to the controller function.

I’mm new to CakePHP framework and I’m using CakePHP3 for development purposes.

Here is my form:

<form action="contactus" method="post">
  
    <div class="col-md-6">
        <input type="text" id="fname" name="fname" placeholder="Your name.." required>
    </div>

    <div class="col-md-6">
        <input type="text" id="mail" name="mail" placeholder="Your Email id.." required>
    </div>

    <div class="col-md-6">
        <textarea id="subject" name="subject" placeholder="Write something.." ></textarea>
    </div>
  
    <div class="col-md-6">
        <input type="submit" value="Submit">
    </div>

</form>

And my controller function is:

 public function contactus()
 {
		$pages ='';
		if ($this->request->is('post')) 
		{
			$pages =   $this->request->data('Contact');
		}
        $this->set(compact('pages'));
        $this->set('_serialize', ['pages']);
	}

Can anyone tell me the mistakes I made?

2

First of all why you are not using formHelper and also the action should be something like /users/contactus. In this the users is the controller and contactus is the method.

3

when i gave action like /users/contactus, it throws me an error.

Object not found!
The requested URL was not found on this server.

But that view exists.

4

Tell me your controller’s name and the version of CakePHP.

5

Version: 3.4.*

Controller: Pages

6

Try with this form

<?php echo $this->Form->create(null, ['url' => ['controller' => 'Pages', 'action' => 'contactus']]); ?>
    <div class="col-md-6">
        <?php echo $this->Form->input('fname', ['placeholder' => 'Your name.' , 'id' => 'fname', 'required' => 'required']); ?>
    </div>
    <div class="col-md-6">
        <?php echo $this->Form->input('mail', ['placeholder' => 'Your email.' , 'id' => 'mail', 'required' => 'required']); ?>
    </div>
    <div class="col-md-6">
        <?php echo $this->Form->input('subject', ['placeholder' => 'Write something.', 'id' => 'subject']); ?>
    </div>

    <div class="col-md-9">
        <?php echo $this->Form->button(__('Submit')); ?>
    </div>         
<?php echo $this->Form->end(); ?>

In your method just try debug($this->request->data);

2 Likes
7

I tried the form you provided. Also tried to debug.
Nothing is happening. It seems like form gets reloaded when I click submit button.

8

Show the code of contactus method.

9 
	public function contactus()
    {
		 debug($this->request->data);
		$pages ='';
		if ($this->request->is('post')) 
		{
			echo "Request is post";die;
			$pages =   $this->request->data('Contact');
		}else{
			echo "request is not post";die;
		}
		$this->set(compact('pages'));
		$this->set('_serialize', ['pages']);
	}
10

Try this.

public function contactus() {
    $pages ='';
    if ($this->request->is('post')) {
        debug($this->request->data);exit;
        $pages =   $this->request->data('Contact');
    }
    $this->set(compact('pages'));
    $this->set('_serialize', ['pages']);
}