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How to change contact us form?

Hello,

I want to change the "contact us" form.

I want to change the field department and put there something else in the drop down box! How can I change this? I allready looked at contactus.tpl.
I changed the words there but it didn't work!

Where is the form sent after you enter submit button?

Marc

look in contactus.tpl and change this bit

Code:

<tr valign=middle>

<td class=FormButton>{$lng.lbl_department}</td>

<td><font class=Star>*</font></td>

<td nowrap>

<select name=department>

<option value="All" selected>{$lng.lbl_all}</option>

<option value="Partners">{$lng.lbl_partners}</option>

<option value="Marketing / publicity">{$lng.lbl_marketing_publicity}</option>

<option value="Webdesign">{$lng.lbl_web_design}</option>

<option value="Sales">{$lng.lbl_sales}</option>

</select>

</td>

</tr>

Hi Shan,
it is posible to eliminate some fields in the contac us without affecting the site? There are some that are silly to ask to a customer, like about their web site, or address.

you can make those fields "hidden" fields instead.

Is a really good idea. How do I do that? Will the tables take the space?

I'd like to have a little help also with making changes to the contactus form.

I think also it is just too many fields for someone to fill out. I understand the postabout making them hidden, but several of the ones I want hidden are currently set as required. Will making them hidden still work if they are required fields?

Thank you for your assistance.

Nancy

look in help.php too. thats where the error checking happens

Thanks.

I'll look there also. I did make one hidden that is required, and it was a "no go"

So now I'm off to check the help.php on the required part.

Thanks again. I may be back though. *S*

Nancy

To make it hidden, do you have to use a html tag or do you have to use the smarty tag {* ?

Thanks Shan. That did the trick.

Can you tell in quick terms the difference between the contactus.tpl and contactusmaster.tpl. So far I have only eleminated those fields in the contactus.tpl file. Do I need to do both?

Thanks,
Nancy

Could you post how you disable the required fields in the /include/help.php
Thanks

Well it was a lucky guess on my part for some of it, but if you open the file you will see a section referring to $fillerror

That section shows which fields are required, so I carefully deleted the section that I didn't want.

(empty($contact["firstname"]) || is the part you need to delete. what I just pasted is an example, because I actually left first name. But the others, referring to country or address or phone I deleted. be very careful you don't take out any necessary part. I did them only one at a time.

Then I went to the contactus.tpl file and found the sections referring to the form fields I didn't want. I selected the entire table row holding that information for each section and deleted.

I started with the zip code first - it seemed easy to find and then I tested the form to be sure it would submit.

After that was successful, I just did the rest of the fields one at a time and tested. First the section in the help.php file, then the tpl file, then test. Repeat those steps.

Hope this helps.

Nancy

Thanks, that worked fine. I'll change my other sites, I wanted to do this for a while.

following on from the above (in a bizarre kind of way), is there anyway I can add an extra field into the contact us page that will get mailed to the admins??

for example I could do with another non requried field that is order number - so that if a customer has a query about their order they can add in the order number to the form (ok they could use the subject or content but I could do with a seperate box)

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