Help with contacts??

[jhettler2689]

So I had a basic contacts page. I was going to redo it with a new module and now I do not have a module to add or remove contacts anywhere. I have went into the managers and made sure everything that I new of was enabled.

Any help is appreciated!! Everything is updated using latest Joomla! 3.6.5 Stable

[imanickam]

It is not clear as to what you want.

Do you want to manage the contacts in the front-end?

[jhettler2689]

I need to add them on the main menu but when i go to modules to make the contacts there isnt a module for contacts like all the tutorials show.

[jhettler2689]

Sorry under components. Not modules

[imanickam]

If you want to add them in the main menu two possibilities are there.

• To create a menu item for each contact, create a menu item of the type "Single Contact" and select the appropriate Contact.
• To list all contacts in a category, create a menu item of the type "List Contacts in a Category".
• To list certain selected contacts only, create a menu item of the type "Featured Contacts". For this, each of the contact you want to show in the list has to be identified/marked as Featured.

[jhettler2689]

If you want to add them in the main menu two possibilities are there.

• To create a menu item for each contact, create a menu item of the type "Single Contact" and select the appropriate Contact.
• To list all contacts in a category, create a menu item of the type "List Contacts in a Category".
• To list certain selected contacts only, create a menu item of the type "Featured Contacts". For this, each of the contact you want to show in the list has to be identified/marked as Featured.

but all these tutorials say add your contacts into the contact component in the Joomla system, but I do not have that option as you can see in the SS above.

[imanickam]

aaha... you are inquiring about the Administration menu item.

It looks like there is an issue with your Contacts component. The reason being, when I clicked on Contact us on the site, getting the following error message.

1146 - Table 'davenport_joomla.#__contact_details' doesn't exist SQL=SELECT * FROM #__contact_details WHERE id IN ( 0 ) ORDER BY id=0 DESC

This leads me to believe that someone has Uninstalled the Contact Component.

If there is a previous back-up of your site, before this happened and the content of the website has not changed much, suggest restoring the site from a previous back-up. Of course, before doing that, make sure to back-up the existing site (including files and the database content).

Review of the document https://docs.joomla.org/J2.5:Reinstalling_deleted_Joomla_2.5_core_extensions would be of help in resolving the situation. Even though the document is written for Joomla! 2.5, it is equally good for Joomla! 3.x.

[jhettler2689]

aaha... you are inquiring about the Administration menu item.

It looks like there is an issue with your Contacts component. The reason being, when I clicked on Contact us on the site, getting the following error message.

1146 - Table 'davenport_joomla.#__contact_details' doesn't exist SQL=SELECT * FROM #__contact_details WHERE id IN ( 0 ) ORDER BY id=0 DESC

This leads me to believe that someone has Uninstalled the Contact Component.

If there is a previous back-up of your site, before this happened and the content of the website has not changed much, suggest restoring the site from a previous back-up. Of course, before doing that, make sure to back-up the existing site (including files and the database content).

Review of the document https://docs.joomla.org/J2.5:Reinstalling_deleted_Joomla_2.5_core_extensions would be of help in resolving the situation. Even though the document is written for Joomla! 2.5, it is equally good for Joomla! 3.x.

Oh okay that makes sense. I will do that tomorrow. Do you by chance have quick access to a tutorial on how to back it up?

[imanickam]

You can use extensions such as Akeeba Backup (https://extensions.joomla.org/extensions/extension/access-a-security/site-security/akeeba-backup/).