Custom contact forms

**raverX** · 23 May 2006, 12:12 AM

Hey,

Just wondering if there is a module or maybe something a little more obvious that I have missed to produce custom contact forms for ZenCart.

A site I am building requires 2 pages which the visitors to the site will submit information to the store owners to update their in-house customer database.

Whilst I could knock this up as a static page outside of the ZC install, it seems a little funny that this can't be done within the ZC infrastructure?

Any help appreciated :)

**seethrou** · 23 May 2006, 04:37 AM

The Archive-Contributions

Ask A Question Contribution

ask_a_question_zen_v1.3.0.zip

**raverX** · 23 May 2006, 04:47 AM

can this module be used irrespective of a product?

specifically i need 3 pages which are completely unrelated to a product, category or manufacturer which simply act as a contact page, but with alternative fields than what the contact form provides...

**seethrou** · 23 May 2006, 05:09 AM

Primary, it is a Ask A Question Contact Form although with the product questions for example. And how and where to use, also how to expand should be depend on you.

**davidinho** · 27 Jun 2006, 08:32 AM

I'm trying to add a custom form to Zen-Cart and this looks promising but having installed the module, I don't see how I can get the form to display if there's no product info - I need to have a form that appears on an EZ Page.

Has anyone got this module working like that?

**raverX** · 27 Jun 2006, 08:50 AM

i gave up on that module, it was annoying...

just hacked up the contacts page script to do what i wanted it to do...

you need to understand forms to some extent, tho ZenCart has functions to do most things which are pretty easy to understand..

first look in /includes/templates/theme_name/templates/tpl_contact_us_default.php
copy this to whatever you want your new page to be called (in my case 'vip')
sp tpl_vip_default.php

then edit it to suit your requirements

then goto /includes/modules/pages/contact_us/
copy that folder to whatever you called your previous one
ie: /includes/modules/pages/vip/

then edit 'header_php.php' - this will process your form when you POST to it, you will need to match the variable names to what you put in the tpl file

you may also need to go to /includes/languages/english/html_includes and copy define_contact_us.php to define_name.php (ie: define_vip.php)

you will also need to go to /includes/languages/english and copy contact_us.php to the same name (ie: vip.php)

I think that's all I did.. there may have been one other file that needs changing..

I've attached a copy of the 4 files mentioned for anyone who wants to use them as a reference.. just ignore the ladym folder as that's the source tree for the project i was working on..