[SOLVED] prepopulate the contact form

[ioane]

Hi,
I want to put links on my site that will prepopulate the contact form with a default message.

I tried to add links like:

https://domain.uk/contact-form.php&message=my_draft_message_here

but I get an error:

We're sorry, but the Web address you entered is no longer available 

It should display the textarea filled with the 'my_draft_message_here' text.

Any hint is appreciated.

[rocky]

Change line 37 of contact-form.tpl in your theme's directory from:

<textarea id="message" name="message" rows="7" cols="35">{if isset($smarty.post.message)}{$smarty.post.message|escape:'htmlall':'UTF-8'|stripslashes}{/if}</textarea>

to:

<textarea id="message" name="message" rows="7" cols="35">{if isset($smarty.post.message)}{$smarty.post.message|escape:'htmlall':'UTF-8'|stripslashes}{else}Your default messages goes here{/if}</textarea>

[ioane]

Hi Rocky,
thanks for your time. I see that the error I was getting was due to the fact that the url si wrong (& instead of ?). But you message pointed me in the right direction.

What I want it's to prepopulate the form with a message I can add to the link ( ?mess=my_message). But I want to do this programatically so I can change the message by changing the link:

http://...contact-form.php?mess=my_message1
http://...contact-form.php?mess=my_message2
...
I will use this to let customers contact me about a specific product.

This is what I did
in contact-form.php I added after line 10

$mess = Tools::getValue('mess');
if (Validate::isMessage($mess)) {
   $smarty->assign('mess', $mess);
}

This will get the mess variable from the link and assign it to the smarty variable $mess.

in contact-form.tpl modify line 36 to this

<textarea id="message" name="message" rows="7" cols="35">{if isset($smarty.post.message)}{$smarty.post.message|escape:'htmlall':'UTF-8'|stripslashes}{elseif isset($mess)}{$mess|escape:'htmlall':'UTF-8'|stripslashes}{/if}</textarea>

This will display the content of the $mess var in the textarea.

Now you can have links like
http://...contact-form.php?mess=Please+send+me+more+information+on+product+ID+10

[rocky]

Good idea. This could be useful. Please edit your first post and add [sOLVED] to the front of the title.