Laravel Not posting to database - php

Question

There is a bug in the code somewhere and I cant seem to find it , any help would be great. Its a simple form that stores to a DB.
The app is using laravel 5.2 and all that is needed is to collect data. when the submit button is hit on the form nothing!
route
Route::resource('/form' , 'PagesController');
controller only needs to indes, create and store , thats all the app needs to do.
<?php
namespace App\Http\Controllers;
use Request;
use App\Http\Requests;
use Data;
use App\Http\Requests\DataRequest;
use Carbon\Carbon;
class PagesController extends Controller
{
//Display Index
public function index()
{
return view ('welcome');
}
public function create()
{
return view ('create');
}
//Store Articles from form
public function store(DataRequest $request)
{
Data::create($request->all());
return redirect('create')->with('message' , 'Form submitted');
}
}
model uses a simple protected fields list and carbon to store timestamps
<?php
namespace App;
use Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\Model;
use App\Http\Requests\DataRequest;
use Carbon\Carbon;
class Data extends Model
{
protected $fillable = [
'name',
'email',
'phone',
'company',
'addcomments',
'published_at',
];
protected $dates = ['published_at'];
//Get all published articles by date
public function scopePublished($query)
{
$query->where('published_at' , '<=' , Carbon::now());
}
//Get all unpublished or future articles
public function scopeUnpublished($query)
{
$query->where('published_at' , '>=' , Carbon::now());
}
// Set form to publish articles with a time and date in the Published_at field
public function setPublishedAtAttribute($date)
{
$this->attributes['published_at'] = Carbon::createFromFormat('Y-m-d' , $date);
}
}
form
{!! Form::open(['url' => 'form']) !!}
<div class="form-group">
{!! Form::label('name' , 'Name:') !!}
{!! Form::text('name', null , ['class' => 'form-control']) !!}
</div>
<div class="form-group">
{!! Form::label('email' , 'EMail:') !!}
{!! Form::text('email', null , ['class' => 'form-control']) !!}
</div>
<div class="form-group">
{!! Form::label('phone' , 'Phone Number:') !!}
{!! Form::text('phone', null , ['class' => 'form-control']) !!}
</div>
<div class="form-group">
{!! Form::label('company' , 'Company:') !!}
{!! Form::text('company', null , ['class' => 'form-control']) !!}
</div>
<div class="form-group">
{!! Form::label('addcomments' , 'Additional Comments:') !!}
{!! Form::textarea('addcomments', null , ['class' => 'form-control']) !!}
</div>
<div class="form-group">
{!! Form::submit('Submit Now', ['class' => 'btn btn-primary form-control']) !!}
</div>
{!! Form::close() !!}

Answer 1

So the issue was what was mentioned in the comments
use DATA;
to
use App\DATA;
and a mixture of a few little front end tweaks
all sorted