Contact page?

ing · 09-13-2005

Hi,

First off, thanks for the great script.

I'm wondering how hard it would be to add a contact page, a basic form so site visitors may contact the webmaster. I've seen a few of the sites have a contact link with a mailto: link to their email address, but I think a form would be better.

The form would only need 3 fields - Name, Email, and Comment/Question. I'm thinking it would be similar to the submit.php and submit.tpl, but I'm not really sure.

Would this be easy to do, or not?

Thanks

Ap0s7le · 09-13-2005

Hello ing,

This shouldn't be to difficult.

I sent you a PM.

Kind Regards

-Casey

ginger · 09-16-2005

Hi,
I have the same request.
How can I add a contact forum to my directory?
Thanks.

Ap0s7le · 09-16-2005

Hi Ginger,

I sent you a PM.

If anyone else is interested, feel free to PM me directly.

Thank you for your time.

-Casey

senaia · 09-16-2005

Quote:

Originally Posted by Ap0s7le

Hi Ginger,

I sent you a PM.

If anyone else is interested, feel free to PM me directly.

Thank you for your time.

-Casey

Can you please pm me also. Thanks

Romario · 09-17-2005

And me, please.

Nobody · 09-17-2005

Why don't you just reveal it all in the public area? :lol:

WebDesignPoint · 09-17-2005

I've done this on my directory. Maybe this info should be added to the wiki?

vkaryl · 09-17-2005

Sounds like a good idea, webdesignpoint. Be good if you handled that, since you're the one with an operative form....

Thanks. Great site, too!

WebDesignPoint · 09-18-2005

I'll need to register on the wiki first. If the admin is ok with it, I'll put it up tomorrow or the next day.

David · 09-18-2005

Sure, go for it!

WebDesignPoint · 09-18-2005

It's a nightmare trying to add this to the wiki, so I'm going to post it here instead.

Create a file called 'contact.php' with the code below and place it in the root PLD folder.

contact.php

Code:

<?php
require_once 'init.php';
session_start();
if (empty($_POST['submit']))
{
	if (!empty($_SERVER['HTTP_REFERER']))
		$_SESSION['return'] = $_SERVER['HTTP_REFERER'];
	SmartyValidate :: connect($tpl);
	SmartyValidate :: register_form('contact_form', true);
	SmartyValidate :: register_criteria('isNotEqual', 'validate_not_equal', 'contact_form');
	SmartyValidate :: register_validator('v_name', 'name', 'notEmpty', false, false, false, 'trim', 'contact_form');
	SmartyValidate :: register_validator('v_email', 'email', 'isEmail', false, false, false, 'trim', 'contact_form');
	SmartyValidate :: register_validator('v_reason', 'reason:0', 'isNotEqual', true, false, false, null, 'contact_form');
	SmartyValidate :: register_validator('v_message', 'message', 'notEmpty', false, false, false, 'trim', 'contact_form');
}
else
{
	SmartyValidate :: connect($tpl);
	$data = array();
	$data['name'] = $_POST['name'];
	$data['email'] = $_POST['email'];
	$data['reason'] = $_POST['reason'];
	$data['message'] = $_POST['message'];
	if (SmartyValidate :: is_valid($data, 'contact_form'))
	{
		require_once 'libs/phpmailer/class.phpmailer.php';
		$mail = new PHPMailer();
		$mail->PluginDir = 'libs/phpmailer/';
		$mail->Mailer = 'mail';
		$mail->From = $data['email'];
		$mail->FromName = $data['name'];
		$mail->Subject = $data['reason'];
		$mail->Body = $data['message'];
		$mail->AddAddress('address@yourdomain.com', 'Your Name Here');
		if (!$mail->Send())
		{
			$tpl->assign('error', true);
		}
		else
		{
			$tpl->assign('success', true);
		}
		$mail->ClearAddresses();
	}
}

$path = array ();
$path[] = array ('ID' => '0', 'TITLE' => _L('Home'), 'TITLE_URL' => DOC_ROOT, 'DESCRIPTION' => '');
$path[] = array ('ID' => '0', 'TITLE' => _L('Contact Us'), 'TITLE_URL' => '', 'DESCRIPTION' => _L('Contact Us'));
$tpl->assign($data);
$tpl->assign('path', $path);
echo $tpl->fetch('contact.tpl');
?>

Create a file called 'contact.tpl' with the code below and place it in the templates folder.

contact.tpl

Code:

{capture name="title"} - {l}Contact Us{/l}{/capture}
{capture assign="in_page_title"}{l}Contact Us{/l}{/capture}
{capture assign="description"}{l}Contact us with queries you might have.{/l}{/capture}
{include file="header.tpl"}
{include file="top_bar.tpl"}
{include file="admin/messages.tpl"}
{if $error}
	

There was a problem sending the email.</p>
	

Please try again later.</p>
{else}
  {if not $success}
		<h1>{$in_page_title}</h1>
 		<form action="contact.php" method="post" name="contactform">
 		

<label for="name">Full Name:</label>

  	<input type="text" name="name" value="{$name}" id="name" size="40" maxlength="100" />
  	{validate form="contact_form" id="v_name" message=$smarty.capture.field_char_required}</p>
  	

<label for="email">Email Address:</label>

  	<input type="text" name="email" value="{$email}" id="email" size="40" maxlength="100" />
  	{validate form="contact_form" id="v_email" message=$smarty.capture.invalid_email}</p>
  	

<label for="reason">Contact Reason:</label>

		<select name="reason">
			<option selected="selected"> - - select a contact reason - - </option>
			<option value="advertising" label="advertising">Advertising Inquiry</option>
			<option value="general" label="general">General Inquiry</option>
			<option value="suggestion" label="category">New Category Suggestion</option>
			<option value="other" label="other">Other (please specify)</option>
			<option value="report" label="problem">Reporting a Problem</option>
			<option value="feedback" label="feedback">Website Feedback</option>
		</select>
		{validate form="contact_form" id="v_reason" message=$smarty.capture.no_contact_reason}</p>
  	

<label for="message">Message:</label>

  	<textarea name="message" id="message" rows="10" cols="50">{$message}</textarea>
		{validate form="contact_form" id="v_message" message=$smarty.capture.field_char_required}</p>
  	

<input type="submit" name="submit" value="Continue" /></p>
  	</form>
	{else}
  	<h2>Thank You</h2>
    

Your email has been sent.</p>
  {/if}
{/if}
{include file="footer.tpl"}

Add a link to your contact.php file in your header.tpl or footer.tpl or where ever you want to link to it.

Note: You need to change this line in contact.php:

Code:

$mail->AddAddress('address@yourdomain.com', 'Your Name Here');

Replace the email address with your own and the name with your name.

I'll post some other details about what other changes can be made shortly.

David · 09-18-2005

Yes, the wiki is not what I had hoped it would be, mainly because we still have not figured out how to add code and images. As time allows I'll try to work toward an alternative solution.

Thanks for posting the code.

hosted · 09-22-2005

Just added this contact form, and thought that I would share the changes I made to header.tpl

It is pretty simple, and it puts the contact link to the R/H side just above the Search button

Just go into the standard header.tpl file and change the Last line only to :

Original line

Code:

<p id="desc" >{$description}</p>

New line

Code:

<span id="desc" style="float:left;clear:right;">{$description}</span> <span style="float:right;">Contact Us</span>

* just make sure it is all on 1 line in your file

John D · 02-14-2006

This doesn't seem to work for me..

Here is my contact.php

Code:

<?php
require_once 'init.php';
session_start();
if (empty($_POST['submit']))
{
   if (!empty($_SERVER['HTTP_REFERER']))
      $_SESSION['return'] = $_SERVER['HTTP_REFERER'];
   SmartyValidate :: connect($tpl);
   SmartyValidate :: register_form('contact_form', true);
   SmartyValidate :: register_criteria('isNotEqual', 'validate_not_equal', 'contact_form');
   SmartyValidate :: register_validator('v_name', 'name', 'notEmpty', false, false, false, 'trim', 'contact_form');
   SmartyValidate :: register_validator('v_email', 'email', 'isEmail', false, false, false, 'trim', 'contact_form');
   SmartyValidate :: register_validator('v_reason', 'reason:0', 'isNotEqual', true, false, false, null, 'contact_form');
   SmartyValidate :: register_validator('v_message', 'message', 'notEmpty', false, false, false, 'trim', 'contact_form');
}
else
{
   SmartyValidate :: connect($tpl);
   $data = array();
   $data['name'] = $_POST['name'];
   $data['email'] = $_POST['email'];
   $data['reason'] = $_POST['reason'];
   $data['message'] = $_POST['message'];
   if (SmartyValidate :: is_valid($data, 'contact_form'))
   {
      require_once 'libs/phpmailer/class.phpmailer.php';
      $mail = new PHPMailer();
      $mail->PluginDir = 'libs/phpmailer/';
      $mail->Mailer = 'mail';
      $mail->From = $data['email'];
      $mail->FromName = $data['name'];
      $mail->Subject = $data['reason'];
      $mail->Body = $data['message'];
      $mail->AddAddress('tmzmod@hotmail.com', 'John D');
      if (!$mail->Send())
      {
         $tpl->assign('error', true);
      }
      else
      {
         $tpl->assign('success', true);
      }
      $mail->ClearAddresses();
   }
}

$path = array ();
$path[] = array ('ID' => '0', 'TITLE' => _L('Home'), 'TITLE_URL' => DOC_ROOT, 'DESCRIPTION' => '');
$path[] = array ('ID' => '0', 'TITLE' => _L('Contact Us'), 'TITLE_URL' => '', 'DESCRIPTION' => _L('Contact Us'));
$tpl->assign($data);
$tpl->assign('path', $path);
echo $tpl->fetch('contact.tpl');
?>

contact.tpl

Code:

<table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0">
  <tr>
    <td class="label">{capture name="title"} - {l}Contact Us{/l}{/capture} {capture assign="in_page_title"}{l}Contact 
      Us{/l}{/capture} {capture assign="description"}{l}Contact us with queries 
      you might have.{/l}{/capture} {include file="header.tpl"} {include file="top_bar.tpl"} 
      {include file="admin/messages.tpl"} {if $error} 
      

There was a problem sending the email.</p>
      

Please try again later.</p>
      {else} {if not $success} 
      <h1>{$in_page_title}</h1>
      <form action="contact.php" method="post" name="contactform">
        


          <label for="name">Full Name:</label>
          

          <input type="text" name="name" value="{$name}" id="name" size="40" maxlength="100" />
          {validate form="contact_form" id="v_name" message=$smarty.capture.field_char_required}</p>
        


          <label for="email">Email Address:</label>
          

          <input type="text" name="email" value="{$email}" id="email" size="40" maxlength="100" />
          {validate form="contact_form" id="v_email" message=$smarty.capture.invalid_email}</p>
        


          <label for="reason">Contact Reason:</label>
          

          <select name="reason">
            <option selected="selected"> - - select a contact reason - - </option>
            <option value="advertising" label="advertising">Advertising Inquiry</option>
            <option value="general" label="general">General Inquiry</option>
            <option value="suggestion" label="category">New Category Suggestion</option>
            <option value="other" label="other">Other (please specify)</option>
            <option value="report" label="problem">Reporting a Problem</option>
            <option value="feedback" label="feedback">Website Feedback</option>
          </select>
          {validate form="contact_form" id="v_reason" message=$smarty.capture.no_contact_reason}</p>
        


          <label for="message">Message:</label>
          

          <textarea name="message" id="message" rows="10" cols="50">{$message}</textarea>
          {validate form="contact_form" id="v_message" message=$smarty.capture.field_char_required}</p>
        


          <input type="submit" name="submit" value="Continue" />
        </p>
      </form>
      {else} 
      <h2>Thank You</h2>
      

Your email has been sent.</p>
      {/if} {/if} {include file="footer.tpl"} </td>
  </tr>
</table>

I can't see any problems..anyone see whats wrong?

clubracer · 02-21-2006

Installed the contact files on an v2.0 and it was working fine.
On a v3.2 installation the contact page is showing up but no emails are send...

Kevuk2k · 02-21-2006

Quote:

Originally Posted by ing

Hi,

First off, thanks for the great script.

I'm wondering how hard it would be to add a contact page, a basic form so site visitors may contact the webmaster. I've seen a few of the sites have a contact link with a mailto: link to their email address, but I think a form would be better.

The form would only need 3 fields - Name, Email, and Comment/Question. I'm thinking it would be similar to the submit.php and submit.tpl, but I'm not really sure.

Would this be easy to do, or not?

Thanks

No disrespect to others but I have already said to people that for a small donation to this forum and you can have a copy of mine. :wink:

Neticus · 02-21-2006

@clubracer

If it helps you troubleshoot, I have 'contact us' working in v3.02 have not touched the files since v2, seems to work fine.

For now...

-

clubracer · 02-21-2006

Quote:

Originally Posted by Neticus

@clubracer

If it helps you troubleshoot, I have 'contact us' working in v3.02 have not touched the files since v2, seems to work fine.

For now...

-

Can you send me your (working) contact files (php & tpl) without your personal (email) information?

Thnx in forward.

Neticus · 02-21-2006

Here is the child of elusive temperment, hope it works for ya:

contact.php

Code:

<?php 
require_once 'init.php'; 
session_start(); 
if (empty($_POST['submit'])) 
{ 
   if (!empty($_SERVER['HTTP_REFERER'])) 
      $_SESSION['return'] = $_SERVER['HTTP_REFERER']; 
   SmartyValidate :: connect($tpl); 
   SmartyValidate :: register_form('contact_form', true); 
   SmartyValidate :: register_criteria('isNotEqual', 'validate_not_equal', 'contact_form'); 
   SmartyValidate :: register_validator('v_name', 'name', 'notEmpty', false, false, false, 'trim', 'contact_form'); 
   SmartyValidate :: register_validator('v_email', 'email', 'isEmail', false, false, false, 'trim', 'contact_form'); 
   SmartyValidate :: register_validator('v_reason', 'reason:0', 'isNotEqual', true, false, false, null, 'contact_form'); 
   SmartyValidate :: register_validator('v_message', 'message', 'notEmpty', false, false, false, 'trim', 'contact_form'); 
} 
else 
{ 
   SmartyValidate :: connect($tpl); 
   $data = array(); 
   $data['name'] = $_POST['name']; 
   $data['email'] = $_POST['email']; 
   $data['reason'] = $_POST['reason']; 
   $data['message'] = $_POST['message']; 
   if (SmartyValidate :: is_valid($data, 'contact_form')) 
   { 
      require_once 'libs/phpmailer/class.phpmailer.php'; 
      $mail = new PHPMailer(); 
      $mail->PluginDir = 'libs/phpmailer/'; 
      $mail->Mailer = 'mail'; 
      $mail->From = $data['email']; 
      $mail->FromName = $data['name']; 
      $mail->Subject = $data['reason']; 
      $mail->Body = $data['message']; 
      $mail->AddAddress('    ', '    '); 
      if (!$mail->Send()) 
      { 
         $tpl->assign('error', true); 
      } 
      else 
      { 
         $tpl->assign('success', true); 
      } 
      $mail->ClearAddresses(); 
   } 
} 

$path = array (); 
$path[] = array ('ID' => '0', 'TITLE' => _L('Home'), 'TITLE_URL' => DOC_ROOT, 'DESCRIPTION' => ''); 
$path[] = array ('ID' => '0', 'TITLE' => _L('Contact Us'), 'TITLE_URL' => '', 'DESCRIPTION' => _L('Contact Us')); 
$tpl->assign($data); 
$tpl->assign('path', $path); 
echo $tpl->fetch('contact.tpl'); 
?>

contact.tpl

Code:

{capture name="title"} - {l}Contact Us{/l}{/capture} 
{capture assign="in_page_title"}{l}Contact Us{/l}{/capture} 
{capture assign="description"}{l}Please use this form below to contact us regarding any queries you might have.{/l}{/capture} 
{include file="header.tpl"}
{include file="top_bar.tpl"}
{include file="admin/messages.tpl"} 
{if $error} 
   

There was a problem sending the email.</p> 
   

Please try again later.</p> 
{else} 
  {if not $success} 
  <h1>{$in_page_title}</h1>
       <form action="contact.php" method="post" name="contactform">
<table width="50%" border="0" cellspacing="" cellpadding="" align="center">
<tr>
<td>
       

<label for="name">Full Name:</label>
 
     <input type="text" name="name" value="{$name}" id="name" size="40" maxlength="100" /> 
     {validate form="contact_form" id="v_name" message=$smarty.capture.field_char_required}</p> 
     

<label for="email">Email Address:</label>
 
     <input type="text" name="email" value="{$email}" id="email" size="40" maxlength="100" /> 
     {validate form="contact_form" id="v_email" message=$smarty.capture.invalid_email}</p> 
     

<label for="reason">Contact Reason:</label>
 
      <select name="reason"> 
         <option selected="selected"> - - select a contact reason - - </option> 
         <option value="advertising" label="advertising">Advertising Inquiry</option> 
         <option value="general" label="general">General Inquiry</option> 
         <option value="suggestion" label="category">New Category Suggestion</option> 
         <option value="other" label="other">Other (please specify)</option> 
         <option value="report" label="problem">Reporting a Problem</option> 
         <option value="feedback" label="feedback">Website Feedback</option> 
      </select> 
      {validate form="contact_form" id="v_reason" message=$smarty.capture.no_contact_reason}</p> 
     

<label for="message">Message:</label>
 
     <textarea name="message" id="message" rows="10" cols="50">{$message}</textarea> 
      {validate form="contact_form" id="v_message" message=$smarty.capture.field_char_required}</p> 
     

<input type="submit" name="submit" value="Send" /></p> 
     </form> 
   {else} 
     
<h2>Thank You</h2> 
     

Your email has been sent.</p> 
  {/if} 
{/if}

</td>
</tr>
</table>
 
{include file="footer.tpl"}

-

09-13-2005	#1
ing Join Date: Sep 2005 Posts: 90	Contact page? Hi, First off, thanks for the great script. I'm wondering how hard it would be to add a contact page, a basic form so site visitors may contact the webmaster. I've seen a few of the sites have a contact link with a mailto: link to their email address, but I think a form would be better. The form would only need 3 fields - Name, Email, and Comment/Question. I'm thinking it would be similar to the submit.php and submit.tpl, but I'm not really sure. Would this be easy to do, or not? Thanks

09-13-2005	#2
Ap0s7le Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: The world Posts: 816	Hello ing, This shouldn't be to difficult. I sent you a PM. Kind Regards -Casey __________________ Casey Wilson / Ap0s7le Freelance Programmer http://www.ap0s7le.com Need help with PHPLD? PM me

09-16-2005	#4
Ap0s7le Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: The world Posts: 816	Hi Ginger, I sent you a PM. If anyone else is interested, feel free to PM me directly. Thank you for your time. -Casey __________________ Casey Wilson / Ap0s7le Freelance Programmer http://www.ap0s7le.com Need help with PHPLD? PM me

09-17-2005	#8
WebDesignPoint Join Date: Aug 2005 Posts: 38	I've done this on my directory. Maybe this info should be added to the wiki? Last edited by David; 03-06-2008 at 07:37 PM.

09-17-2005	#9
vkaryl Join Date: Aug 2005 Posts: 263	Sounds like a good idea, webdesignpoint. Be good if you handled that, since you're the one with an operative form.... Thanks. Great site, too! __________________ {Signature Edited - Old non-working links removed}

09-16-2005	#3
ginger Join Date: Jun 2005 Posts: 88	Hi, I have the same request. How can I add a contact forum to my directory? Thanks.

09-17-2005	#6
Romario Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: Russia Posts: 56	And me, please.

09-17-2005	#7
Nobody Supporter Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: Sweden Posts: 218	Why don't you just reveal it all in the public area? :lol:

09-18-2005	#10
WebDesignPoint Join Date: Aug 2005 Posts: 38	I'll need to register on the wiki first. If the admin is ok with it, I'll put it up tomorrow or the next day.

09-18-2005	#11
David Administrator *phpLD Administrator* Supporter Join Date: Jan 2005 Posts: 11,667	Sure, go for it!

09-22-2005	#14
hosted Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: Australia Posts: 17	Just added this contact form, and thought that I would share the changes I made to header.tpl It is pretty simple, and it puts the contact link to the R/H side just above the Search button Just go into the standard header.tpl file and change the Last line only to : Original line Code: <p id="desc" >{$description}</p> New line Code: <span id="desc" style="float:left;clear:right;">{$description}</span> <span style="float:right;">Contact Us</span> * just make sure it is all on 1 line in your file

02-21-2006	#16
clubracer Join Date: Feb 2006 Posts: 132	Installed the contact files on an v2.0 and it was working fine. On a v3.2 installation the contact page is showing up but no emails are send...

02-21-2006	#18
Neticus Supporter Join Date: Dec 2005 Posts: 487	@clubracer If it helps you troubleshoot, I have 'contact us' working in v3.02 have not touched the files since v2, seems to work fine. For now... -

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