About Project

This is for a backend developer test built with Laravel. This is a contact form that sends submitted contact information to a given admin email on submission. The following requirement was added to it:

• Form fields include Name, Email, Message, and ability to upload a File.
• All fields except File Upload are required.
• Accepted file formats are .pdf, .xlsx and .csv.
• If the same user has used the form in the last 5 minutes, a message telling them to wait before they can send a new message is displayed.
• Where necessary, a message is displayed to the user informing them about failures or a successful submission.
• Unit test

Every contact submission was saved to a database.

Packages and library used

• Frontend
  • Bootstrap
  • Dropify
  • Bootstrap Notify
  • Jquery
• Backend
  • Purifier

Implementation

• Repository design pattern was used.
• Frontend validation was done.
• Backend validation was done using laravel form request. All the necessary rules were implemented. For email validation regex is also added for proper validation.
• Laravel Notification was used to send the contact information via email to the admin. This notification was also queued to speed up response time on form submission.
• For the rate-limiting. The throttle middleware was added to the create route. In other to display the necessary message when the maximum request has been exceeded a custom throttle middleware was created which extends Laravel ThrottleRequests middleware.
• Security measures to prevent XSS, SQL Injection and CSRF attacks was also taken. Laravel by default provides a method for preventing CSRF attack while a middleware was created to clean up every input to prevent XSS and SQL Injection. To properly achieve this the purifier package was used.

Instalation

• Pull the repository

git clone https://github.com/Edu-Vin/contact-form.git

• Install App

composer intall

cp .env.example .env

php artisan key:generate

Update env file with right DB credentials.

Update the following environment variables

ADMIN_MAIL
ADMIN_NAME

Update the MAIL environment variables.

You can get a free mailtrap account here https://mailtrap.io/signin which you can use for testing.

php artisan migrate

• Run App

- Local

php artisan serve

php artisan queue:work

• Testing

php artisan test