Installation: Contact Form

You can see the contact form submissions in the back-end Nova admin with the contact form's back-end package. Make sure you have this in your composer.json's require:


There is a migration in the admin contact form package. This database table should already exist as it was created in your base admin app installation.

That's it for the back-end. The real fun is in the front-end.

Your composer.json should already have the package in the require:


Please peruse the config and set the params as you see fit.

Please note that you can write your own contact form blade files. I very much recommend that you create a package for this! You can specify your own package with the "what_package_are_the_view_files" config parameter.

To place the contact form on its own "Contact Us" page, just add a link to:

This is the route

This is the controller

This is the blade file

The form itself is a "partial", so you can place it anywhere you want. Here is an example of placing it on the home page (scroll down).

Here's what the contact will look like:

Do note that the <h1> tag inherits text colour.

Laravel takes care of the actual method you choose to send your emails. Please consult the Laravel Mail doc.

I am using Amazon Web Service's Simple Email Service. Which means that I have to add the following to my composer.json:


For AWS SES set-up, this is what I did:

log into AWS console

"Simple Email Service"

"Go to Identity Management"

"Verify a New Domain" & checked "generate the DKIM"

logged into my domain zone record management provider

entered the SES zone records

From here, I waited for the verification. Just to be on the safe side, I also verified the email addresses I use for my contact forms.

Then I went into IAM, and created a new group just for SES. Then I created a user just for using SES. Then generated the access and secret keys. These keys are not the same keys as I use for S3. Then entered these keys into the config/services.php directly (not via the .env). When your contact form works, you should request AWS to lift the quote of 200 emails per day (unless you are fine with a maximum of 200 emails per day).

It's probably best to set up SES well before you actually need to use it, as it could take a few days for the verifications to complete.