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best solution for a "contact us" form?

Posted: Thu Jun 17, 2010 2:17 pm
by wesyah234
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!

Re: best solution for a "contact us" form?

Posted: Thu Jun 17, 2010 2:36 pm
by Rolf
This one should do the trick
http://dev.cmsmadesimple.org/projects/formbuilder

Rolf

Re: best solution for a "contact us" form?

Posted: Thu Jun 17, 2010 2:42 pm
by wesyah234
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...

Re: best solution for a "contact us" form?

Posted: Thu Jun 17, 2010 4:23 pm
by kermit
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 :o 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...  

Re: best solution for a "contact us" form?

Posted: Thu Jun 17, 2010 4:40 pm
by wesyah234
:)

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.