I've upgraded recently from an old version that had a built in contact us form... it seems this is gone... what is the recommended way to have a simple contact form now?
thanks!
best solution for a "contact us" form?
Re: best solution for a "contact us" form?
- + - + - + - + - + - + -
LATEST TUTORIAL AT CMS CAN BE SIMPLE:
Migrating Company Directory module to LISE
Migrating Company Directory module to LISE
- + - + - + - + - + - + -
Re: best solution for a "contact us" form?
tried to install that one from the xml file, but it failed... is there an alternate way to install it?
UPDATE: forget that... I found the module manager... worked when I tried installing it from there...
SUGGESTION: perhaps a link to the module manager in the "Modules' page would help others in the future... I didn't know about it... that page only has the form to upload the xml file, but it doesn't mention that you can install from the module manager too...
UPDATE: forget that... I found the module manager... worked when I tried installing it from there...
SUGGESTION: perhaps a link to the module manager in the "Modules' page would help others in the future... I didn't know about it... that page only has the form to upload the xml file, but it doesn't mention that you can install from the module manager too...
Last edited by wesyah234 on Thu Jun 17, 2010 2:47 pm, edited 1 time in total.
Re: best solution for a "contact us" form?
there used to be a really nice, super easy {contact_form} in the core.. but someone got the absolutely brilliant beyond brilliant idea ??? that a content management system didn't need a contact form built-in 
.. so they yanked that measly 8k of code out...... now it's nearly 2 megabytes :o to do the same thing... well not quite, because formbuilder still can't do this yet:
{contact_form style="false" email="The Braintrust:tom@larry.com,dick@curly.com,harry@moe.com;Feature Requests:bitbucket@nowhere.com"}
the {contact_form} plugin does work with the current version if you'd rather use it instead of formbuilder. cyberman started a project on the forge and adopted the orphaned plugin (link above).. and before calguy yells at me
about unsupported code... formbuilder ain't in the core either. so...... what would would be the best choice for a simple contact form? 8 kilobytes of simple, time-tested code or almost 2 megabytes of rather complex code across many, many files...
.. so they yanked that measly 8k of code out...... now it's nearly 2 megabytes :o to do the same thing... well not quite, because formbuilder still can't do this yet:{contact_form style="false" email="The Braintrust:tom@larry.com,dick@curly.com,harry@moe.com;Feature Requests:bitbucket@nowhere.com"}
the {contact_form} plugin does work with the current version if you'd rather use it instead of formbuilder. cyberman started a project on the forge and adopted the orphaned plugin (link above).. and before calguy yells at me
about unsupported code... formbuilder ain't in the core either. so...... what would would be the best choice for a simple contact form? 8 kilobytes of simple, time-tested code or almost 2 megabytes of rather complex code across many, many files...
Last edited by kermit on Thu Jun 17, 2010 4:42 pm, edited 1 time in total.
eternity (n); 1. infinite time, 2. a seemingly long or endless time, 3. the length of time it takes a frozen pizza to cook when you're starving.
4,930,000,000 (n); 1. a very large number, 2. the approximate world population in 1986 when Microsoft Corp issued its IPO. 3. Microsoft's net profit (USD) for the quarter (3 months) ending 31 March 2007.
CMSMS migration and setup services | Hosting with CMSMS installed and ready to go | PM me for Info
4,930,000,000 (n); 1. a very large number, 2. the approximate world population in 1986 when Microsoft Corp issued its IPO. 3. Microsoft's net profit (USD) for the quarter (3 months) ending 31 March 2007.
CMSMS migration and setup services | Hosting with CMSMS installed and ready to go | PM me for Info
Re: best solution for a "contact us" form?
Yeah, I agree... I was quite glad that I made a complete backup and tried the upgrade in a temporary area on a copy of the db. If I hadn't done this, I'd have a very unhappy customer without a contact form on their site right now, until I figure out what happened to my old contact form, then figured out how to install the new form builder module, then figure out how to enable a contact form via the form builder.
