Customising contact form, thanks for your help! :)

[justicejustine]

I've tried customising the contact form in the .tpl file for contact form but only managed to change the header of the contact form the subtitles as seen on my site. I'm quite troubled as to how to customise it further. I clicked around not knowing what to do. Can you please help to point me in the right direction? It would mean a lot to me! I'm also an absolute beginner at php but I do actively learn from referring to online sources.

 

 

I want to:

 

- Important: Add new fields to the contact form: a radio field for "Grade" and a text field for "University". And have a text beside it explaining the choices.

- Would be very good if I can: rename the drop down options for "Customer service" and "Webmaster"

- If possible, attach multiple files.

- If possible, Remove order reference and product.

 

Thanks in advance for the help!

[Carolina Custom Designs]

- Would be very good if I can: rename the drop down options for "Customer service" and "Webmaster"

 

Thanks in advance for the help!

 

This can easily be done by visiting Customers > Contacts in your back office. Changes names or create new contacts.

 

Marty Shue

[justicejustine]

Thanks so much! I missed that out. Do you have any idea how I can add new fields to the contact form: a radio field for "Grade" and a text field for "University". And have a text beside it explaining the choices? Is there a way to customise it?

 

 

This can easily be done by visiting Customers > Contacts in your back office. Changes names or create new contacts.

 

Marty Shue

[Makarand Mane]

This can easily be done by visiting Customers > Contacts in your back office. Changes names or create new contacts.

 

Marty Shue

 

HI there is no any drop down while adding contacts.

and I am getting error like

There is 1 error 
1. Please select a subject from the list provided. 

I want to use email address from customer contacts for my contact us page

 

or 

 

can anybody tell me how to get those subject headings..?

Edited November 7, 2013 by makarand (see edit history)

[Basix101]

Having the same issue!

 

PS v1.5.6  I'd like to make the form easier for general enquiries.

 

Any help? anyone?

[vekia]

 

 

I'd like to make the form easier for general enquiries.

i can help, but everything depends on what you mean by that

please elaborate

[Makarand Mane]

HI there is no any drop down while adding contacts.

and I am getting error like

There is 1 error 
1. Please select a subject from the list provided. 

I want to use email address from customer contacts for my contact us page

 

or 

 

can anybody tell me how to get those subject headings..?

 

I solved this problem. 

There is 1 error
1. Please select a subject from the list provided.

to get subject heading you must have below code in contact form which displays subject heading in form. This allows to select contact added from BO > customers > contacts

<p class="select">
 <label for="id_contact">{l s='Subject Heading'}</label>
  {if isset($customerThread.id_contact)}
   {foreach from=$contacts item=contact}
    {if $contact.id_contact == $customerThread.id_contact}
     <input type="text" id="contact_name" name="contact_name" value="{$contact.name|escape:'htmlall':'UTF-8'}" readonly="readonly" />
     <input type="hidden" name="id_contact" value="{$contact.id_contact}" />
   {/if}
  {/foreach}
 </p>
 {else}
  <select id="id_contact" name="id_contact" onchange="showElemFromSelect('id_contact', 'desc_contact')">
  <option value="0">{l s='-- Choose --'}</option>
  {foreach from=$contacts item=contact}
   <option value="{$contact.id_contact|intval}" {if isset($smarty.post.id_contact) && $smarty.post.id_contact == $contact.id_contact}selected="selected"   {/if}>{$contact.name|escape:'htmlall':'UTF-8'}</option>
  {/foreach}
 </select>
 </p>
 <p id="desc_contact0" class="desc_contact"> </p>
  {foreach from=$contacts item=contact}
 <p id="desc_contact{$contact.id_contact|intval}" class="desc_contact" style="display:none;">
   {$contact.description|escape:'htmlall':'UTF-8'}
 </p>
 {/foreach}
{/if}

Edited November 13, 2013 by Makarand Mane (see edit history)