How To: Add Phone Number field to Contact Us

[flakrat]

The following documents (rightly or wrongly) how I added the Phone Number field to the Contact Us form.

I got the basic steps from a thread in the support archives, however they didn't work for 1.3.5 and required some additional customization.

The following will:
a) Add the Phone Number field to the contact us page
b) Fill in the phone number field if the user is logged in and has a phone number in their account
c) print the phone number in the email

These are the files I edited
./includes/languages/english/MYTEMPLATE/contact_us.php
./includes/languages/english/MYTEMPLATE/email_extras.php
./includes/modules/pages/contact_us/header_php.php
./includes/templates/MYTEMPLATE/templates/tpl_contact_us_default.php
./admin/includes/languages/english/email_extras.php

File 1: Insert the following lines
./includes/languages/english/MYTEMPLATE/contact_us.php

define('ENTRY_PHONE', 'Phone Number:');
define('ENTRY_EMAIL_PHONE_CHECK_ERROR','You must enter your phone number. Please try again.');

File 2: Insert the following line
./includes/languages/english/MYTEMPLATE/email_extras.php

define('OFFICE_PHONE','<strong>Phone:</strong>');

File 3:
./includes/modules/pages/contact_us/header_php.php
Add this to around line 15

$phone = zen_db_prepare_input($_POST['phonenumber']);

Modify the sql line around line 24

$sql = "SELECT customers_id, customers_firstname, customers_lastname, customers_password, customers_email_address, customers_default_address_id, customers_telephone

Insert this line around line 32

$customer_phone= $check_customer->fields['customers_telephone'];
...
} else {
...
$customer_phone='Not logged in';

Around line 50, modify the extra_info and text_message to look like

$extra_info = email_collect_extra_info($name, $email_address, $customer_name, $customer_email, $customer_phone);
// Prepare Text-only portion of message
$text_message = OFFICE_FROM . "\t" . $name . "\n" .
OFFICE_PHONE . "\t" . $phone . "\n" .
OFFICE_EMAIL . "\t" . $email_address . "\n\n" .

Around line 63, change html_msg to look like

$html_msg['CONTACT_US_OFFICE_FROM'] = OFFICE_FROM . ' ' . $name . '<br />' . OFFICE_PHONE . ' ' . $phone . '<br />' . OFFICE_EMAIL . '(' . $email_address . ')';

Around line 78, insert the code to test whether or not the phone number field has text in it

if (empty($phone)) {
$messageStack->add('contact', ENTRY_EMAIL_PHONE_CHECK_ERROR);
}

Around line 90, change the sql statement

$sql = "SELECT customers_id, customers_firstname, customers_lastname, customers_password, customers_email_address, customers_default_address_id, customers_telephone

A few lines down, insert

$phone= $check_customer->fields['customers_telephone'];

File 4: Insert the following in between the contactname and email-address field definitions
./includes/templates/MYTEMPLATE/templates/tpl_contact_us_default.php

<label class="inputLabel" for="phonenumber"><?php echo ENTRY_PHONE; ?></label>
<?php echo zen_draw_input_field('phonenumber', $phone, ' size="40" id="phonenumber"') . '<span class="alert">' . ENTRY_REQUIRED_SYMBOL . '</span>'; ?>
<br class="clearBoth" />

File 5: Insert the following define
./admin/includes/languages/english/email_extras.php

define('OFFICE_PHONE','Phone:');

Hope this helps someone (or me when I forget how I did it :-)

[kgmmusic]

Thanks a million for the clear and concise instructions, it worked like a charm!!!

[markov]

Hi flakrat
Thanks for this piece of information - it worked a treat. I used it change my Contact Us page and also to change my Ask A Question module. Fantastic.
I am no PHP coder - but it all worked fine - so I was chuffed.

I am hoping if someone can guide me on also adding a multi-select dropdown box (ie a select box) rather than just a text field. I have tried mucking around but I can't work out the correct code - can anyone give me a hint here -


this is the html code -
<form name="form1" method="post" action="">
<p> How did you find out about us?
<select name="select">
<option value="Yellow Pages Online">Yellow Pages Online</option>
<option value="Advertising magazine">Advertising magazine</option>
<option value="Advertising cars">Advertising cars</option>
<option value="Architect or Designer">Architect or Designer</option>
<option value="Internet">Internet</option>
<option value="Referered">Referered</option>
<option value="Furniture from Installation">Furniture from Installation</option>
<option value="Other">Other</option>
</select>
</p>
</form>

[Ryk]

I hope you don't mind flakrat, but I've packaged this up as a mod and submitted it to the downloads section with the following comment attached to the description...

Initially posted in a thread by flakrat, I have simply packaged up the relevant modified files to allow easy installation, and can take no credit whatsoever for the coding.

I should have asked first, but it only just occurred to me as I hit the submit button!

[gruntre69]

Hey thanks Flakrat, this was a great help.

I have found a very small problem though and I am not sure whether it is just with my install.

I only get the error message about an empty phone field if there is another message stack message being displayed. If the empty phone is the only error the form is transmitted with the empty phone field.

Quite strange but no big deal, I am happy that I now have the phone field regardless of whether it is mandatory or not.

Just an observation.

Cheers

[CreativeWitch]

Thanks for this. I am getting an error:

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected '.' in /home/curvycat/public_html/store/includes/modules/pages/contact_us/header_php.php on line 33

Does anyone know what I did wrong?

[paulm]

It looks like you litterally added "..." here:

$customer_phone= $check_customer->fields['customers_telephone'];
...
} else {
...
$customer_phone='Not logged in';

while flarat probably meant that that there will already be some lines of code there, that you need to add the given lines of code before/after.

[aspagarino]

Hey thanks Flakrat, this was a great help.

I have found a very small problem though and I am not sure whether it is just with my install.

I only get the error message about an empty phone field if there is another message stack message being displayed. If the empty phone is the only error the form is transmitted with the empty phone field.

Quite strange but no big deal, I am happy that I now have the phone field regardless of whether it is mandatory or not.

Just an observation.

Cheers

The solution for the small problem phone number field verification ( error when only the phone field is left blank)

Around line 22 add the phone to the if statement:

 if ($zc_validate_email and !empty($enquiry) and !empty($name) and !empty($phone))

[aspagarino]

I am sorry... I forgot to mention on my last post on File 3:
./includes/modules/pages/contact_us/header_php.php
Add this to around line 22

if ($zc_validate_email and !empty($enquiry) and !empty($name) and !empty($phone)) { 

[Robbyn7]

Not sure what I'm doing wrong but I downloaded the mod and followed step by step but the Add Phone Number field isn't showing. Am I missing something perhaps?

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