adding drop down subject line in contactus.tpl

[jason1971 +]

Hi all,

If possible I would like to add an additional dropdown field in my contactus.tpl page

<tr>
<td class="formleft">Subject{$smarty.const.LANG_COLON} </td>
<td class="formright"> <select>
<option>General</option>
<option>Advertising</option>
<option>Website Isuue / Problem</option>
<option>Other</option>
</select></td>
</tr>

I am aware it is not as straight forward as just adding it to contactus.tp, but I would be grateful for any info on how to acheive this.

Many thanks

Jason.

[Lhotch +]

I dont have the specifics of what needs to be changed where but the underlying php file that is the target of the submitted form data is going to recieve data from the form and it wont know how to handle it unless you tell it what to do with it. You will have to alter the php code and append/prepend the $subject or $message mail variable with the dropdown contents so that it gets sent along with the mail.

Looking at the template should whow you the name of the php file the info gets posted to.

EDIT. Looks like are running the hosted version so likely wont be able to edit the php file.

[jason1971 +]

so to sum up larry is that going to be a big fat No in terms of me being able to do it, because im running the hosted version ? I sort of thought that might be the case.

[Lhotch +]

Originally Posted by jason1971

so to sum up larry is that going to be a big fat No in terms of me being able to do it, because im running the hosted version ? I sort of thought that might be the case.

You MAY be able to do something at the template level.

The php script is looking for a specific variable, which you cant alter but what you may be able to do at the template level is rename the existing subject field name, create your dropdown with its name and then assign your newly named subject var and your dropdown var to the original subject var so the php script gets what its expecting.

[jason1971 +]

I have tried using the {$friendname} to assign to my contact form like this

<tr>
<td class="formleft">{$smarty.const.LANG_FRIEND_NAME}{ $smarty.const.LANG_COLON}</td>
<td class="formright"><input name="friendname" type="text" size="{$smarty.const.FIELD_SIZE}" value="{$friendname}" />
</td>
</tr>

as a test what ever I type in the text are does not come through in the email, I have added the {$friendname} in the emails/html/contactus.tpl file but still nothing.

Am I missing something or doing it totally wrong (as usual)

I think my hair is going to start falling out with this problem , any thoughts anybody ?



Thanks

jason

[seymourjames +]

Try this

<input name="XXXX" type="text" size="{$smarty.const.FIELD_SIZE}" value="{$friendname}" />

where XXX is the name it is expecting.

[Lhotch +]

Originally Posted by seymourjames

Try this

<input name="XXXX" type="text" size="{$smarty.const.FIELD_SIZE}" value="{$friendname}" />

where XXX is the name it is expecting.

The problem, as I stated above is that the underlying script doesnt know about the field friendname and therefor will NEVER use its contents.

You need to give the subject a new name then create a new variable with the old subject name and assign it the values of the new subject + friendname.

Something along these lines im guessing, but have not tried it...


{assign var=subject value=value=`$oldsubject` - `$friendname`}

[jason1971 +]

Thanks larry

Sorry to sound thick about this, but there do I put this and what do I need to do with it

{assign var=subject value=value=`$oldsubject` - `$friendname`}


also as $friendname is used in the form to send info about a listing to a friend will it mess that up ? I only used $friendname as I thought it might work


Many thanks Larry

\jason

[jason1971 +]

anybody any ideas please ?

Thanks

Jason

[Mike-N-Tosh +]

I'm a little confused in reading through this thread as you started this out as wanting an additional drop down field in the "contactus.tpl", however in following posts you refer to $friendname which is not even a variable in the contactus.tpl. That is from a completely different file.

As already stated previously, you can't just add a variable as the template is processed by the contactus.php file and without the developers version (access to modify code in that file) you can not just add the variable for processing.

What would be possible is to make a module for it as there is an existing modulehook in the contactus.php file.

PHP Code:

$modules->call_hook('contact_us_submit', ''); 


Therefore, you could essentially use that hook to capture (template variable) and declare the variable and continue to send it on to the other processing php files.