Remove headings in contact form?

[johnnybgoodwin]

Can anyone tell me how to remove the <h3> headings, "Contact" and "Contact Form" from the standard layout of the contact page?
They appear in totally inappropriate places - order goes,
Name
"CONTACT"
position

Which doesn't look good at all. (IMO)

Thanks a lot in advance for any pointers. Decided to take the plunge into 1.7 and really liking it so far!

John

[john-doe]

Can you provide us a screen shot?

[Webdongle]

http://docs.joomla.org/How_to_override_ ... omla!_core
and
http://docs.joomla.org/Layout_Overrides_in_Joomla_1.6

[johnnybgoodwin]

Thanks for the fast replies, but I must admint my reaction was,
"Ha! You're kidding me, right?"

Seems I have to learn how to create a .php file and stick it somewhere to remove a heading in the contact page....?
I actually understood some of what those two docs were talking about, and found a file in /home/****/components/com_contact/views/contact/tmpl (which is a joke in itself, when all I want to do is simply delete one heading) called 'default.php' which contains the following:

<?php if ($this->params->get('presentation_style')!='plain'){?>
<?php echo JHtml::_($this->params->get('presentation_style').'.start', 'contact-slider'); ?>
<?php echo JHtml::_($this->params->get('presentation_style').'.panel',JText::_('COM_CONTACT_DETAILS'), 'basic-details'); } ?>
<?php if ($this->params->get('presentation_style')=='plain'):?>
<?php echo '<h3>'. JText::_('COM_CONTACT_DETAILS').'</h3>'; ?>
<?php endif; ?>

If I knew anything about coding, I might know whether this has something to do with the simple problem of having a heading in a stupid place in the plain layout.
Since I know hardly anything about coding, I puzzle over why, when the presentataion style is plain, its starting with a reference to a contact slider, which is a different option.... But then I don't know what all this means.

I'll add a screen shot, to show why this has to be changed. I guess my easy fix is simply to use a different contact page component, or make a form. Especially since the core contact component still doesn't have captcha....

Probably jumped to 1.7 too soon, on reflection.

contactscreenshot.JPG

Still stuck.

[randelld]

I removed them from the contact language file today and it worked a charm. I suppose the correct way would be to use the override file.

[Webdongle]

Thanks for the fast replies, but I must admint my reaction was,
"Ha! You're kidding me, right?"

Seems I have to learn how to create a .php file and stick it somewhere to remove a heading in the contact page....?
....

But you asked

Can anyone tell me how to remove the <h3> headings, "Contact" and "Contact Form" from the standard layout of the contact page?

Which suggested you wanted to edit the code not configure options.

http://docs.joomla.org/Help17:Component ... ay_Options may be more what you want ?

[johnnybgoodwin]

Hi Webdongle

Thanks again for the link, but I understand the display options - problem is that the option to remove the headings is not there.
I was hoping for something like, "go to this file, and delete this line of code...." which is about my level!
Randelld - I'm not sure which bit of which language file you edited. Can you give me the filename, path (and line number even?!).
Appreciate the help.

Cheers

John

[Webdongle]

....
I was hoping for something like, "go to this file, and delete this line of code...." which is about my level!
....

Not that simple because if you edit a core file then you can loose the edit on an update. Also it depends on which Template you are using, it may already have a Template override. It also depends on which view the page is eg. Article, list or blog etc.

http://docs.joomla.org/Layout_Overrides_in_Joomla_1.6 explains how to do it better than I could explain.

Please note that there is no 'Show Page Heading' in the Article, you will need to have a menu item to it for you to control that setting.

[johnnybgoodwin]

Hi Again

And thanks again for the additional info. I have to move on. It seems too hard/complicated to make a simple change.
I decided to abandon the Contacts component and embed a contact form module in an article and use that instead.

[Just for the benefit of anyone else who might be looking at this, you can embed a module in an article by using {loadposition any_unique_position_name} as though it was a plug in in an article, then publish the module to that position.]

Cheers

John

[Webdongle]

If you use Aicontactsafe you don't need to use Modules anywhere

[Yasmine]

put this css code inside of your templates css file ...b

div.contact h3 { display: none !important;}

I was shocked also how you cant configure contact form in Joomla 1.7 to not to have any headings ..

[randelld]

The correct way to do this is to add

COM_CONTACT_DETAILS=""

to the en-GB.override.ini
inthe overrides directory

[parjoom]

Excellent, it worked. Thanks @randelld

[videohead]

en-GB.override.ini is located in /language in version 2.5
There should be an override directory in there.
If there isn't an en-GB.override.ini file in the override directory, just create a new one with a text editor and add the line:
COM_CONTACT_DETAILS=""

[bmpc]

It works, but it also leaves two empty <h3></h3> tag pairs in the source code. Online site evaluation tool such as Nibbler would give then an error message like the one below and lower the site score.

Many headings (13.0%) were found to be empty, or incorrectly defined. Empty or invalid headings are of no value to search engines and make a website less accessible.

I think this whole problem could be solved by removing two blocks of code from a file located at:

/components/com_contact/views/contact/tmpl/default.php

but it's not permanent because with each core update Joomla! seems to overwrite this file, so you would have to get back to it and do it again.

First block starting around line 70

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<?php if ($this->params->get('presentation_style') == 'plain'):?>
	<?php  echo '<h3>'. JText::_('COM_CONTACT_DETAILS').'</h3>';  ?>
<?php endif; ?>

Second block starting around line 111

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<?php if ($this->params->get('presentation_style') == 'plain'):?>
	<?php echo '<h3>'. JText::_('COM_CONTACT_EMAIL_FORM').'</h3>';  ?>
<?php endif; ?>