change contact us form

[Ajinkya]

hello Sir,

I am very new to joomla, I added the contact us form to my website, can you please tell me how to add the one more field in it like phone number.
Also how to change message comes aftre the form is posted.
Please help me
Thank you.

[strumjan]

Go to menu Component and then Contact. There You can edit all parameters.

[wcleland]

strumjan: That is SO not true. Kindly check your answers. (Bet you heard that in school alot, eh? )

In fact after scouring the CSS files in Components, Templates, and Admin I can't find the option to change this myself either.

I have also seen this particular problem posted in numerous locations on this site without a proper answer anywhere.

Is there ANYONE who can help please? And if you can confirm your answer before speaking out loud such as strumjan did, it would be greatly appreciated! Thank You.

[strumjan]

Sorry, maybe I misunderstand question, my fault. To change look of contact form go to Your Joomla\components\com_contact\views\contact\tmpl folder and change the default_form php code directly to Your needs.
You can also make override to template and put this new code to Your template folder, in this case You don't make any change to Joomla core

[wcleland]

Thank you for updating your answer, and I apologize for my harshness in my previous search for answers.

Unfortunately this method only controls the bottom half; The Form section. Thank you very much for clarifying and I too believed that this was where the size could be altered. Perhaps a better coder than myself would know exactly what to type for CSS to add that functionality but I would imagine that if it is hard coded as it is, that it will not be so easy.

My Solution: Downloaded and Installed the aiContactSafe Extension. FAR more options and usable features. Including Captcha, Attachments, and more...

[tasimba]

In case you are struggling with installing CAPTCHA capability for your default Joomla! email contact form. Follow this link to your solution http://www.tasimbatech.co.za/joomla-15x-articles.html

I have istalled it and this plugin works without the need for any hacks to the Joomla! files. Simply install and activate plugin and then test out your contact form on your live site.

[wcleland]

In case you are struggling with installing CAPTCHA capability for your default Joomla! email contact form. Follow this link to your solution http://www.tasimbatech.co.za/joomla-15x-articles.html

I have istalled it and this plugin works without the need for any hacks to the Joomla! files. Simply install and activate plugin and then test out your contact form on your live site.

That has absolutely Nothing to do with this topic. Thanks for the heads up though.

[FranzM]

Hi,

To change look of contact form go to Your Joomla\components\com_contact\views\contact\tmpl folder and change the default_form php code directly to Your needs.

I have a related question about this php script: I see a width of only 30 character positons for Name, email address etc. I would like to extend that to 60 or more.
I change the respective lines in default_form.php:
<input type="text" name="name" id="contact_name" size="30" class="inputbox" value="" />
to
size="60"

But nothing happens to the width of my inputboxes.

Could anybody help me out?

Thanks.

[strumjan]

In Your default template folder find subfolder HTML and there subfolder CONTACT. Probably there is override for contact php.

[FranzM]

Check!
The default template used was b59-tpl19. By selecting in the Template Manager "Edit CSS" I arrived at the /css/template.css file which has an entry:

.inputbox {
width:120px;
}

I changed that to:

width:240px;

and I got what I wanted to get!

Thanks for the help in looking in the right direction.

Franz

[itoptionz]

Hi,

Greetings to everyone!!

I am a very new member of The Joomla community.

I want to create a "Contact Us" form for my website with additional information fields like telephone No etc.

Also, I need that once the visitor completes the Contact Us form and clicks the submit button

the form should come to me as an PDF or Excel file as a attachment.

Please help I need to get this done asap.

Thanks in advance for your help.

Regards,
Rahul

[natecovington]

Hi,

If you need to add a "Phone" field, or any other custom field to the contact form, the easiest thing to do is to ABANDON the stock Joomla Contact component. Use something like RSForm, Fabrik, Chronoform, etc... these are all form building tools and you can build a custom contact form without writing any code.

[OFA]

I chose to hide most of the Parameters, but I still get the following words on my page (without the field):

Street
Suburb
State
Zip Code
Country
Telephone
Fax
Information: Miscellanous info

How can I really hide them?

Thanks,

[natecovington]

Which parameters are you referring to?

Components -> Contacts -> Your "Contact" item
Menu -> MainMenu -> Your "Contact" link

[OFA]

I meant in Components -> Contacts -> Your "Contact" item

[onlysalam]

I chose to hide most of the Parameters, but I still get the following words on my page (without the field):

Street
Suburb
State
Zip Code
Country
Telephone
Fax
Information: Miscellanous info

How can I really hide them?

Thanks,

I am having the same problem, I don't know how to hide them, I don't want those, any idea on how to remove those text/icon from the contact page? please advice,

Thanks

[onlysalam]

oh never mind, natecovington already gave the answer,

Thanks alot, that's saved me alot.

[pm4dev]

Check this link for a solution on how to change the message after the contact us form is sent

http://www.hotjoomlatemplates.com/blog/ ... k-you-page

[pm4dev]

Check this link for a solution on how to change the message after the contact us form is sent

http://www.hotjoomlatemplates.com/blog/ ... k-you-page

It worked for me, you can even add a link to an article is you need more information after the for is submitted

[Sethrmidus]

Hi, I have pretty much figured everything out on my own to create my page but I cannon for the life of me figure out how to change the font/color in my contact us form. Evey where I search, I only find answers that either don't make sense, or none at all. PLEASE help me! Thanks!!

[Sethrmidus]

I was also thinking, If i could just change the background to "white" from "transparent" even. That would fix it. Also, I am using Joomla 1.6, am I in the right room??

[inmater]

In Your default template folder find subfolder HTML and there subfolder CONTACT. Probably there is override for contact php.

strumjan..you were casting a spell:) thx alot!

[mesh2006uk]

Hi There,

Can someone help me to do what shows on the picture link--->

NOW:
http://imageshack.us/f/585/nowfe.jpg/

WHAT I NEED IS:

http://imageshack.us/f/254/needo.jpg/


Please Help me.

thanks

[strumjan]

In Your default template folder find subfolder HTML and there find or make subfolder COM_CONTACT. There you can make override for contact.php and default-form.php.

[sunshinehtg]

thank you strumjan,
i was just at the contact us form and could not find it again. i am very greatful for this forum that i can search old notes and find where the heck i was. lol

[sinip]

Hello, I'd have to revive this thread a bit.
What I need is (I believe) small modification in Joomla 1.5 backend file(s) governing Contact Manager section. Namely, what I need is to be able to insert HTML code in the "Telephone" field of "/administrator/index.php?option=com_contact&task=edit&..." for the users listed there, instead of the phone number. The HTML code is simple Skype button found here: http://www.skype.com/intl/en-us/tell-a- ... pe-button/

I've tried to do something on my own, but sadly without any luck. I know that "hacking" of core files is not recommended and I know that it could probably be done with some third party contact form module/extension but since there's only one thing that I'd like to have changed, I'd prefer the approach of changing existing files rather than installing new extension because of only one button.

Thanks in advance for any help!

[sinip]

Ok if I can amend myself, I've made some progress in this issue. If I insert Skype code under "Misc" section of the contact form, Skype button shows up normally. So I've made changes in the admin.contact.html.php so that the lines under "Telephone" are exactly the same as under "Misc" )line 420 copied to line 380 while replacing "misc" with "telephone". Then I've changed the "telephone" filed in the database so that it has the same properties as the "misc" field. However, the thing still doesn't work, and I know why as well. Line 181 goes like: JFilterOutput::objectHTMLSafe( $row, ENT_QUOTES, 'misc' ); effectively allowing HTML tags to be parsed and not stripped. The question is how do I add the same for "telephone" field?