Simple Form to Email

I have constructed a simple contact (to email) form in CakePHP 1.2 Beta. Rather than try to explain it all I have included the code for the model, controller, and view here. One note is I had to add a minLength validation check to the textarea as fields defined as ‘text’ in the model schema do not echo errors by default, as string fields do.

Model

class Contact extends AppModel {
    var $name = 'Contact';
    var $useTable = false;

    var $_schema = array(
        'firstName' => array('type' => 'string', 'length' => 30),
        'lastName' => array('type' => 'string', 'length' => 30),
        'email' => array('type' => 'string', 'length' => 30),
        'msg' => array('type' => 'text')
    );

    var $validate = array(
        'firstName' => array(
            'alphaNumeric' => array(
                'rule' => 'alphaNumeric',
                'required' => true,
                'message' => 'firstNameAlphaNumeric'
            ),
            'between' => array(
                'rule' => array('between', 1, 30),
                'message' => 'firstNameBetween'
            )
        ),
        'lastName' => array(
            'alphaNumeric' => array(
                'rule' => 'alphaNumeric',
                'required' => true,
                'message' => 'lastNameAlphaNumeric'
            ),
            'between' => array(
                'rule' => array('between', 1, 30),
                'message' => 'lastNameBetween'
            )
        ),
        'email' => array(
            'email' => array(
                'rule' => array('email', true),
                'required' => true,
                'message' => 'emailEmail'
            ),
            'between' => array(
                'rule' => array('between', 6, 30),
                    'message' => 'emailBetween'
                )
            ),
            'msg' => array(
                'rule' => array('minLength', 1),
                'message' => 'msgMinLength'
            )
        );
}

View

    < ?= $form->create('Contact', array('url' => '/contact')) ?>
    < ?php
    /*
    input('firstName', array('maxlength' => 30)) ?>
    < ?= $form->input('lastName', array('maxlength' => 30)) ?>
    < ?= $form->input('email', array('maxlength' => 30)) ?>
    < ?= $form->input('msg', array('type' => 'textarea')) ?>
    */
    echo $form->inputs(array('firstName', 'lastName', 'email', 'msg'));
    ?>
    < ?= $form->end(__('submit', true)) ?>

Controller

class ContactController extends AppController {
    var $name = 'Contact';
    var $uses = 'Contact';
    var $components = array('Email');

    function index() {
        if (isset($this->data)) {
          if ($this->Contact->create($this->data) && $this->Contact->validates()) {
              $name = $this->data['Contact']['firstName'] . ' ' . $this->data['Contact']['lastName'];
              $from = $this->data['Contact']['email'];
              $subject = 'Contact Us';
              $msg = $this->data['Contact']['msg'];

              $this->Email->sendAs = 'both'; // html, text, both
              $this->Email->layout = 'contact'; // views/layouts/email/html/contact.ctp
              $this->Email->template = 'contact';

              // set view variables as normal
              $this->set('from', $name);
              $this->set('msg', $msg);

              $this->Email->to = 'athies@gmail.com';
              $this->Email->from = $from;
              $this->Email->subject = $subject;

              if ($this->Email->send($msg)) {
                  $this->Session->setFlash(__('contactUsSent', true));
              }

          }
      }

  }

}

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