Octobercms successful mail send returns empty alert - laravel

Question

I am a newbie to Laravel and OctoberCMS.
I have successfully set up an info request form that sends me an email via Mailgun when submitted. Submission is handled by an AJAX handler.
The problem I have is that the process opens an alert box with an empty array on the form page.
Here is the page: http://imageweaversmarketing.com/
Click on 'CONTACT' in the top-right to move to the form.
Here is the partial with the form:
<div class="row">
<div class="col-lg-12">
<form data-request="onInfoRequest" name="sentMessage" id="contactForm" novalidate="">
<div class="row">
<div class="col-md-6">
<div class="form-group">
<input type="text" class="form-control" placeholder="Your Name *" id="name" required="" data-validation-required-message="Please enter your name.">
<p class="help-block text-danger"></p>
</div>
<div class="form-group">
<input type="email" class="form-control" placeholder="Your Email *" id="email" required="" data-validation-required-message="Please enter your email address.">
<p class="help-block text-danger"></p>
</div>
<div class="form-group">
<input type="tel" class="form-control" placeholder="Your Phone *" id="phone" required="" data-validation-required-message="Please enter your phone number.">
<p class="help-block text-danger"></p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="col-md-6">
<div class="form-group">
<textarea class="form-control" placeholder="Your Message *" id="message" required="" data-validation-required-message="Please enter a message."></textarea>
<p class="help-block text-danger"></p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="clearfix"></div>
<div class="col-lg-12 text-center">
<div id="success"></div>
<button type="submit" class="btn btn-xl">
Send Message
</button>
</div>
</div>
</form>
</div>
Here is the PHP AJAX:
use Illuminate\Support\Facades\Mail;
public function onInfoRequest() {
$data = ['name' => 'test from function'];
Mail::send('mail.inforequest', $data, function ($message) {
$message->to('fake#hidden.com', 'Roger Creasy');
});
}
I appreciate any help.

Answer 1

I see you haven't used the data-request-success handler. That's necessary to show the output when mail is successful. Here's how I do it
function onSend()
{
// Collect input
$name = post('name');
$email = post('email');
// Form Validation
$validator = Validator::make(
[
'name' => $name,
'email' => $email
],
[
'name' => 'required',
'email' => 'required|email'
]
);
if ($validator->fails())
{
$messages = $validator->messages();
throw new ApplicationException($messages->first());
}
// All is well -- Submit form
$to = System\Models\MailSettings::get('sender_email');
$params = compact('name','email');
Mail::sendTo($to, 'temp.website::mail.newrequest', $params);
return true;
}
And on the form side I used
<form class="form-horizontal" data-request="onSend" data-request-success="alert('We have recieved your email.. we\'ll get back to you shortly')">
<div class="form-group">
<label class="col-md-4 control-label" for="name">Name</label>
<div class="col-md-5">
<input id="name" name="name" type="text" placeholder="Name" class="form-control input-md" required="">
</div>
</div>
<div class="form-group">
<label class="col-md-4 control-label" for="email">Email</label>
<div class="col-md-5">
<input id="email" name="email" type="text" placeholder="Email ID" class="form-control input-md" required="">
</div>
</div>
</form>
So basically all you need is to add a data-request-success for it to work. Enjoy!

Answer 2

I had to get this completed. So, I gave up on a solution within October.
I am posting what I did as a workaround, in case it is helpful to someone else.
What I did is create a route resource, and direct it to a controller to handle the form. basically I went to the Laravel base structure and handled the form through its MVC.