Contacts page: How to hide the Form but leave the rest (address, phone, etc) visible ? Topic is solved

[nlogica]

Hi,

I'm running Joomla 3.10.12 on an old website.
Currently the contacts page has a Google map, Company information (street address, phone numbers, email address) and it also has a Form.

I would like to disable just the Form. I would like to keep the rest of the information visible.

I've tried to do the following:
Global configuration > Contacts > Form > Contact form : Hide

Screenshot:

But this hides the whole contents in the Contacts page, which is not what I'm looking for
What is the best approach?

[gws]

Create an article with the info and don't use the contact page.

[Webdongle]

Components >>> Contacts >>> Options ... select/unselect as required

[nlogica]

Components >>> Contacts >>> Options ... select/unselect as required

Hey @webdongle,
Thanks for replying.
I would like to disable just the Form. I would like to keep the rest of the information visible. I don't see how to do this. Screenshot: https://i.imgur.com/QCacLyx.png

[Webdongle]

But the information is the form?

[imanickam]

But this hides the whole contents in the Contacts page, which is not what I'm looking for

This behavior could be due to the template that is being used for the site. What template is being used for the site?

You could test the behavior of core Joomla creating a test environment, install Joomla, and then test it with the default template. Do not install any other framework and templates before the testing is done.

[toivo]

If hiding the Contact Form does not work, the html folder of the template may have a com_contact folder, that is a template override, that does not check what has been configured in the Options of Contacts. The following steps show how to create a template override for the Contacts component, if required.

Go to Extensions - Templates - Templates and select the frontend template, then go to the tab Create Overrides and select com_contact - contact from the Components column. This operation will copy several files into the html subfolder of your frontend template.

Use the Editor tab in Templates or the File Manager in the cPanel provided by your host, browse to the html subfolder and find the folder com_contacts/contact. The folder has several files. Leave the file default.php there and delete the other files.

Edit the file default.php and remove the lines 111 to 139, shown below. That will remove the email form.

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	<?php if ($tparams->get('show_email_form') && ($this->contact->email_to || $this->contact->user_id)) : ?>
		<?php if ($presentation_style === 'sliders') : ?>
			<?php if (!$accordionStarted)
			{
				echo JHtml::_('bootstrap.startAccordion', 'slide-contact', array('active' => 'display-form'));
				$accordionStarted = true;
			}
			?>
			<?php echo JHtml::_('bootstrap.addSlide', 'slide-contact', JText::_('COM_CONTACT_EMAIL_FORM'), 'display-form'); ?>
		<?php elseif ($presentation_style === 'tabs') : ?>
			<?php if (!$tabSetStarted)
			{
				echo JHtml::_('bootstrap.startTabSet', 'myTab', array('active' => 'display-form'));
				$tabSetStarted = true;
			}
			?>
			<?php echo JHtml::_('bootstrap.addTab', 'myTab', 'display-form', JText::_('COM_CONTACT_EMAIL_FORM')); ?>
		<?php elseif ($presentation_style === 'plain') : ?>
			<?php echo '<h3>' . JText::_('COM_CONTACT_EMAIL_FORM') . '</h3>'; ?>
		<?php endif; ?>

		<?php echo $this->loadTemplate('form'); ?>

		<?php if ($presentation_style === 'sliders') : ?>
			<?php echo JHtml::_('bootstrap.endSlide'); ?>
		<?php elseif ($presentation_style === 'tabs') : ?>
			<?php echo JHtml::_('bootstrap.endTab'); ?>
		<?php endif; ?>
	<?php endif; ?>

[nlogica]

Thank you Toivo,
I had someone assist me, and he managed to hide just the contact form, I think it was in a similar fashion to what you suggested.