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I would like to add a ‘contact’ link in position ‘footer’.
This I would like to look like this:
Which should then link to a custom submit form which I would like to look like this:
Does anyone know if this is possible, and if so, the steps involved to achieve it? 🙂
Thanks
Chris<em>@questbg 66377 wrote:</em><blockquote>I would like to add a ‘contact’ link in position ‘footer’.
This I would like to look like this:
Which should then link to a custom submit form which I would like to look like this:
Does anyone know if this is possible, and if so, the steps involved to achieve it? 🙂
Thanks
Chris</blockquote>I think this will do, Menalto taught me this.
administrator => components => contacts
this brings you to the Contact Manager
click the first “contact” default there and provide at least a correct email address.
If you want to be more professional, include the information requested, such as your official address, phone number, etc.If this is the Main Contact: Just call it “Contact Us”
To the right you will see options on how your information is handled.
Contact Parameters
This will determine what information you included on the left will become public.
Note: For security reasons, you can hide your email address, if you want so that spammers will not use be able to harvest it, or use it as “legiitimate email address”, even if it is not their own.
Change the other parameters also
SaveIf you click on the “Contact us” you will get this:
http://mysite.com/administrator/index.php?option=com_contact&task=edit&cid[]=1
where mysite.com is your website URL
If you remove the administrator related stuff in the link, you will get something like this:
http://mysite.com/index.php?option=com_contactif you click that, you will get the list in the Contacts, the first one will be “Contact Us” (or whatever you want your main contact to be called.
Copy the link URL for the Contact us.
Check, if it is what you want.
If it works, then you can use and include the link in the Top Menu, which is placed at the bottom *user 3???) in the Demo of Teline II
Cornelio
N.B. I checked this already in one of my sites, and it works.
Hi Cornelio
Thanks for that.
<em>@cgc0202 66505 wrote:</em><blockquote>
Change the other parameters also
Save
</blockquote>OK. That’s done. New contact added called ‘Contact Us’ and published. Default (original contact), now unpublished.
<em>@cgc0202 66505 wrote:</em><blockquote>
If you click on the “Contact us” you will get this:http://mysite.com/index.php?option=com_contact
</blockquote>If I do that, I get rather an ugly ‘list’ of contacts?
What I’d rather do is go straight to the contact form:
Skipping this first screen altogether.
Am I correct in thinking I can do this by applying this code:
http://www.mysite.com/index.php?option=com_contact&view=contact&id=2:contactus&catid=12:contactsAs I think we will only ever want one contact address and the submit form looks better than the ‘list’ of users?
Thanks
ChrisIn retrospect, forget the above. The actual ‘list idea’ could have certain advantages. Not least that I can send certain enquiries to other e-mail addresses, rather than they all come straight to me!
😀 😀 😀
So, now I’m at this stage:
Which I’m now happy with. Unfortunately, clicking on any of these contacts and filling out the subsequent submit form results in this error:
When I click on the ‘Send’ button.
Any idea what this is talking about?
I’ve rooted round in Admin CP, but can’t see anywhere an ‘activate mail’.
Thanks
Chris<em>@questbg 66564 wrote:</em><blockquote>Hi Cornelio
Thanks for that.
OK. That’s done. New contact added called ‘Contact Us’ and published. Default (original contact), now unpublished.
If I do that, I get rather an ugly ‘list’ of contacts?
What I’d rather do is go straight to the contact form:
Skipping this first screen altogether.
Am I correct in thinking I can do this by applying this code:
http://www.mysite.com/index.php?option=com_contact&view=contact&id=2:contactus&catid=12:contactsAs I think we will only ever want one contact address and the submit form looks better than the ‘list’ of users?
Thanks
Chris</blockquote>Chris,
You forgot one very important instruction:
“Copy the link URL for the Contact us.“
If you use that link, it will give you the same thing as you asked originally.
Please, try it because it serves some purpose. I will respond to your other post, separately.
Cornelio
<em>@questbg 66584 wrote:</em><blockquote>In retrospect, forget the above. The actual ‘list idea’ could have certain advantages. Not least that I can send certain enquiries to other e-mail addresses, rather than they all come straight to me!
😀 😀 😀
So, now I’m at this stage:
Which I’m now happy with. Unfortunately, clicking on any of these contacts and filling out the subsequent submit form results in this error:
When I click on the ‘Send’ button.
Any idea what this is talking about?
I’ve rooted round in Admin CP, but can’t see anywhere an ‘activate mail’.
Thanks
Chris</blockquote>Yes, indeed. There are advantages of the list format. The ugly color can be dealt with via the CSS. Remember the Page View Source Tutorial I responded to your post. That is the way to find the CSS specifications for the “Form” for the list. You can make top background white and the headings black or dark gray, for example, to blend better with the format of Teline II. And, you can change the dimensions of so that the form will occupy a certain space of the page layout.
The error most likely may be a server issue or through the Control Panel of your account with the hosting service.
I assume all the email addresses are correct?
I tried a test email with one of my installations, and it worked. However, I have sites that are in another server, and I am not getting test email from one of the sites from this server. It used to be working, I have not sent a ticket yet to my hosting service.
What was odd was that when I asked others to register, it works.
Maybe, “Menalto to the rescue” will come in handy.:)
Cornelio
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