Contact Us Form

[Mitchell]

Hi all,

what is the easiest way for ad d a "Contact Us" form, similar to "Tell a Freind" but one can contact the actual IndexU sites management.

Thakns
Michell

[dody]

Go to admin panel > template manager > edit > add new custom template, called contact_us.html

Write the content there.

To call the page, http://www.domain.com/page.php?id=contact_us

[Mitchell]

Go to admin panel > template manager > edit > add new custom template, called contact_us.html

Write the content there.

Hi Dody,
Thank you for the reply, but this is to create a basic page, I need a FORM (contact us form), basically something like Tell A friend, so people can fill up their name and inquiry and email it to us.

By the way that (admin panel > template manager > edit > add new custom template) only creates a HTML file but what about the PHP file for the files that you create there, would you have to manulay create them or ...?

To call the page, http://www.domain.com/page.php?id=contact_us

I am sorry, I am lost, is this part of my reply too?

Regards
Mitchell

[esm]

I need a FORM (contact us form), basically something like Tell A friend, so people can fill up their name and inquiry and email it to us.

see this thread and use this contact form

I did not test it.


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[Mitchell]

see this thread and use this contact form

I did not test it.


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esm,

Thank you,
Okay, I made a few forms (subscription, Feedback, etc, in my directory using OSCommerce, without changing the database;

here are the forms;
http://www.weddingsonly.com.au/feedback.html
http://www.weddingsonly.com.au/subscription.html

it wasn't very hard to make those forms BUT can we make forms like this in IndexU WITHOUT adding tables to the Database or not?

[esm]

...can we make forms like this in IndexU WITHOUT adding tables to the Database or not?

INDEXU does not make forms, other than those you already see. You can create any additional form you like; they don't require the INDEXU database and will not affect it in any way.

INDEXU will not capture any data from the form. You will need to do that yourself. each form has as an "action" tag. the file associated with that action will manipulate the data from the form and perform some sort of action, e.g., mail the data, save the data to a database or file, etc

For example, in your subscription.html the subscription form uses the following action tag

http://www.weddingsonly.com.au/directory/subscription.php?action=send

whatever code is in the subscription.php file will be used to do something with the data from the form.

FYI, INDEXU does have a mailing list (see the section Wedding Newsletter) but it does not have the kind of data you are capturing in your subscription.html file.


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[Mitchell]

You can create any additional form you like
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thank you for your information, would you please tell me which files I have to hack to create a new form?

e.g.
sendmail.php
and
sendmail_form.html

or there are other forms that I need to hack too?


Also I need the title on "sendmail_form.html" from "Send Email" to "Contact Us" but it didn't change, is there some where else that I have to change to?

Regards
Mitchell

[esm]

i think the posts at Contact the webmaster form, espcially the last two from Vitis, seem to answer your questions.



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[Mitchell]

Thanks Mate, this should keep me busy for a couple of days!
Gives you a break.

[inspireme]

just place a link to sendmail.php?u=admin

and your done.

Just like i have here :

http://www.bigfreeguide.com/camping/...il.php?u=admin

[Mitchell]

just place a link to sendmail.php?u=admin

and your done.

Just like i have here :

http://www.bigfreeguide.com/camping/...il.php?u=admin

Thank you, I did that fot the Contact us and it is perfect, here is what I did, copied sendmail.php and sendmail_form.html, renamed them the contact_us.html and .php and then did what you said;
http://www.weddingsonly.com.au/contact_us.php


but other thing I was after was to add MORE Fields to the Form such as what I have done below;

http://www.weddingsonly.com.au/subscription.html

all I need to know how to add extra field to the forms, lets say how to add "Contact Phone Number" field to the sendmail form, do I only have to add new field to the sendmail.php and sendmail-form.html or there are other files that I have to hack as well?

Cheers
Mitchell