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Dear all,

The following is more of a blog than a pure question. I am writing this to illustrate the way I finished the project we started with Hampton.

First of all, Let's solve the issue with header and footer. As you may have noticed the header doesn't highlight the right section on the contact page. To solve this issue, I declared a variable called page in the twig template files of each page (not the main.twig) and I used that variable as an indicator to know which link should be selected

The following is in my about.twig a similar snippet is in my contact.twig :

{%
    set page = "home"
%}

{% extends 'main.twig' %}

// The remaining block

This is what happens in my main.twig header ( same for footer ):

    <header>
        <h1>Ralph Waldo Emerson</h1>
        <nav>
            <a href="{{ urlFor('home') }}"    {% if page == 'home'    %} class="selected" {% endif %}>About</a>
            <a href="{{ urlFor('contact') }}" {% if page == 'contact' %} class="selected" {% endif %}>Contact</a>
        </nav>
    </header>

With this working properly, I moved to solve the email notification status to do that I learned about flash messages in Slim ( I used code from documentation to start a session though I didn't fully understand what was happening ). Here is the code to start a session :

<?php
    // Code to instantiate all the object here

    $app->add(new \Slim\Middleware\SessionCookie(array(
        'expires' => '20 minutes',
        'path' => '/',
        'domain' => null,
        'secure' => false,
        'httponly' => false,
        'name' => 'CookieSession',
        'secret' => 'CHANGE_ME',
        'cipher' => MCRYPT_RIJNDAEL_256,
        'cipher_mode' => MCRYPT_MODE_CBC
    )));

    // code to handle the post goes here 

?>

Now that I started a session let's send a message to know whether email was sent successfully or no again documentation was a great inspiration :

<?php

    $app->post('/contact', function () use($app) {
        $name =  $app->request->post("name");
        $email =  $app->request->post("email");
        $message = $app->request->post("message");

        $ok = !empty($name) && !empty($email) && !empty($message);

        if( $ok ) {
            $cleanName = filter_var($name, FILTER_SANITIZE_STRING);
            $cleanEmail = filter_var($email, FILTER_SANITIZE_EMAIL);
            $cleanMsg = filter_var($message, FILTER_SANITIZE_STRING);
        } else {
            // message the user that there was a problem
            $app->flash('info', 'fail');
            $app->redirect($app->urlFor('contact'));
        }

        $transport = Swift_SendmailTransport::newInstance('/usr/sbin/sendmail -bs');
        $mailer = \Swift_Mailer::newInstance($transport);
        $msg = \Swift_Message::newInstance();

        $msg->setSubject("Email From Website");

        $msg->setFrom(array(
            $cleanEmail => $cleanName
        ));

        $msg->setTo(array('khalilwtf@gmail.com'));

        $msg->setBody($cleanMsg);

        $res = $mailer->send($msg);

        if(!$res) {
            // LOG ERROR MESSAGE
            $log->addError("Email Couldn't be sent");

            $app->flash('info', 'fail');
            $app->redirect($app->urlFor('contact'));
        } else {
            $app->flash('info', 'success');
            $app->redirect($app->urlFor('home'));
        }
    });

?>

What is left to do now is to check whether the variable in flash are defined when we load a page and I did it using twig if statements pretty straightforward :

<body>
    {% if flash['info'] == "success" %}
    <div id="feedback" class="success">
        <h3>Success!</h3>
        <p>You're reading all about Emerson.</p>
    </div>
    {% endif %}

    {% if flash['info'] == "fail" %}
    <div id="feedback" class="fail">
        <h3>Fail!</h3>
        <p>There was an error with the email! Try Again</p>
    </div>
    {% endif %}

I hope you enjoyed reading and would like to hear your comments on the way I solved this problem and what are things I can improve or even how you guys tackled it

:D

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