validate($request, [ 'name' => 'required', 'email' => 'required|email' ]); $name = $request['name']; $fname = preg_replace('/ .*$/', '', $name); $lname = preg_match('/. ./', $name) === 1 ? preg_replace('/^[^ ][^ ]* /', '', $name) : ''; $email = $request['email']; if (env('MAILCHIMP_APIKEY') != null && env('MAILCHIMP_LISTID') != null) { // Submit the subscription request Newsletter::subscribeOrUpdate($email, [ 'FNAME' => $fname, 'LNAME' => $lname ]); if (!Newsletter::lastActionSucceeded()) { Log::info('Mail Chimp Error: ' . Newsletter::getLastError()); } } // Save to the database on success $subscriptions = new Subscriptions; $subscriptions->name = $name; $subscriptions->email = $email; $subscriptions->save(); return 'success'; } }