Although this episode seems long, it will actually take about 10 minutes to create contact form for your site if you know what you are doing. To follow along with this video it will probably be good idea to check out [previous](http://watch-learn.com/video-tutorials/making-websites-with-october-cms-part-16-creating-a-simple-component), [two](http://watch-learn.com/video-tutorials/making-websites-with-october-cms-part-17-adding-options-to-components) videos where I talk about setting up components. Because in this episode we are actually going to create contact form component for October CMS that you can reuse on any of your pages.

Also in this episode I'm going to show you how to set up Google's smtp service so that you can send email from your app while developing.

In this episode I'm going to show you how to create a simple contact form component for your October CMS website. And also how to use SMTP service from Google to send emails while developing your site.

Creating Contact Form

[Last episode](http://watch-learn.com/video-tutorials/making-websites-with-october-cms-part-18-creating-contact-form) was a bit longer because I didn't want to leave any important information out. But this episode is going to be a fast one, because form validation in October CMS or Laravel for that matter is a piece of cake, since it comes already baked into the system.

In this episode I'm going to show you how to use Octobers validator class, and how to use few of the many validation rules that October comes with.

Now let's make our October CMS contact form a bit better by creating form validation for our fields.

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