PHP - Creating An Object

Hello everyone,

I have a PHP Laravel CRUD application I made where I am using MVC style. I have controllers views and models. My database migration is made and my table in the database is made with php artisan migrate. I am using php 7.3 and laravel 5.8.

On my create view I go to create a single object in my database and my errors are thrown saying nothing in text box (no input) If I comment out the errors then just I click my submit button and nothing happens nothing is entered into my db. I have looked at many different crud examples and I am not sure why my object isn’t being created. Here is what I have

	//view create
	@section('main')
	<section id="section-content" class="text-center">
	    <div class="container contentdiv rounded">
	        <div class="row">
	            <div class="col-md-12">
	                <div class="pb-2 mt-4 mb-2 border-bottom clearfix">
	                    <h2>Create Contact</h2>
	                </div>
	                <div >
	                    <a class="btn btn-success" href="{{route('contacts.index')}}">Back</a>
	                </div>
	            </div>
	            <!-- <div class="col-md-10 mx-auto">
	                @if($errors->any())
	                    <div class="alert alert-danger">
	                        <ul>
	                            @foreach($errors->all() as  $error)
	                                <li>{{ $error }}</li>
	                            @endforeach
	                        </ul>
	                    </div><br />
	                @endif
	            </div> -->
	<div class="row">
	            <div class="col-md-10 mx-auto mt-3">
	                <form method="POST" action="{{ route('contacts.store') }}">
	                    @csrf
	                    <div class="form-group row">
	                        <label for="txtfn" class="col-sm-3"><b>First Name:</b></label>
	                        <div class="col-sm-9">
	                            <input type="text" class="form-control" name="txtfn" id="txtfn"/>
	                        </div>
	                    </div>
	                    <div class="form-group row">
	                        <label for="txtln" class="col-sm-3"><b>Last Name:</b></label>
	                        <div class="col-sm-9">
	                            <input type="text" class="form-control" name="txtln" id="txtln"/>
	                        </div>
	                    </div>
	                    <div class="form-group row">
	                        <label for="txtem" class="col-sm-3"><b>Email:</b></label>
	                        <div class="col-sm-9">
	                            <input type="text" class="form-control" name="txtem" id="txtem"/>
	                        </div>
	                    </div>
	                    <button type="submit" class="btn btn-primary">Create Contact</button>
	                </form>
	            </div>
	        </div>
	    </div>
	</section>
	//controller
	namespace App\Http\Controllers;
	 
	use App\Contact;
	use Illuminate\Http\Request;
	 
	class ContactController extends Controller
	{
	    public function store(Request $request)
	    {
	        $request->validate([
	            'first_name' => 'required',
	            'last_name' => 'required',
	            'email' => 'required'
	        ]);
	 
	        $contact = new Contact([
	            'first_name' => $request->get('first_name'),
	            'last_name' => $request->get('last_name'),
	            'email' => $request->get('email'),
	            'job_title' => $request->get('job_title'),
	            'city' => $request->get('city'),
	            'country' => $request->get('country')
	        ]);
	        $contact->save();
	        return redirect('/contacts')->with('success', 'Contact saved!');
	    }
	    public function index()
	    {
	        $contacts = Contact::all();
	        return view('contacts.index', compact('contacts'));
	    }
	 
	    /**
	     * Show the form for creating a new resource.
	     *
	     * @return \Illuminate\Http\Response
	     */
	    public function create()
	    {
	        return view('contacts.create');
	    }
	// model
	namespace App;
	 
	use Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\Model;
	 
	class Contact extends Model
	{
	    protected $fillable = [
	        'first_name',
	        'last_name',
	        'email',
	        'city',
	        'country',
	        'job-title'
	    ];
	}
	 
	

My env is setup correctly I just don’t get the not creating object.

I have a class which is injected with various objects and those objects contain other objects where some of them contain content from various APIs, user data, etc.  I would like to obtain a persistent copy of one of these sub-objects so I may modify my class and test it without having to recreate it each time.  Anyway existing tools to automate this process?  One thought is using reflection to access all the properties and recursively go over each which somehow creates some JSON file which can act as the input to some factory class to create the same instance?  Or maybe some custom function which somehow creates some executable which reflects the bits and bytes in the PHP object?  Thanks