Contact the Owner

[Don]

V3.0.15 Developer

Hello,

when an ad is being viewed by a member, is it possible to have the Name and Email fields ready populated with the viewers details in the 'contact the owner' form in such a way that they can not be altered?

Thanks,
Don.

[Eric Barnes]

I believe the only user information that is stored in the session is their userid and username. So you would have to create a new query on the viewlisting.php and get out the rest of their information then assign it to the template.

Probably something like this:

PHP Code:

$sSQL="SELECT firstname, email FROM ".PREFIX."users WHERE id='".$_SESSION['uid']."'";
$result=$db->query($sSQL);
$rs=$result->fetch();
$class_tpl->assign('user_firstname', $rs['firstname']);
$class_tpl->assign('user_email', $rs['email']); 


Then open the contact template and change the input fields:
<input name="name" type="text" size="{$smarty.const.FIELD_SIZE}" value="{$user_firstname|escape}" />

<input name="email" type="text" size="{$smarty.const.FIELD_SIZE}" value="{$user_email|escape}" />

To make them not be altered I believe you can add disabled to the form field:

<input name="email" type="text" size="{$smarty.const.FIELD_SIZE}" value="{$user_email|escape}" disabled="disabled" />

The only thing is I am not sure if they will actually send when submiting the form so you would need to test it.

[Lhotch]

Perhaps that would be a good addition to 3.1? In admin have the ability to set the "contact owner" form auto use the senders registered e-mail addy/name.This of course would only be available if you have the site set so you had to be a registered user to contact the owner.

[sleepy]

I agree with Lhotch. It would be nice to have this option via ADMIN.

sleepy

[Don]

A good start...
The 'Contact Owner' form was populated with my name and email (neither could be changed...as requested). I sent a message. I was redirected to /contact.php with the 'contact Owner' form still showing. The name and email fields were now blank but the message was still showing. No email was sent.

Thanks,
Don.

[Don]

Hi Larry / Eric

just wondering if there is any more I can try here

Thanks,
Don.

[Lhotch]

Un-disable the fields and see if mail will send.

[Don]

Hello Larry,

I removed "disabled="disabled" and it works great. If there is no way of disabling then so be it.

Thanks,
Don.

[Lhotch]

What you could do is simply change the fields to be hidden so the user wont see them at all. And, if you really wanted to the user to see something just replace the input field itself with the value so it shows as just text instead of input field.

[Don]

You the man, Larry.

That works a treat. Once again (and don't you just get sick of saying it) thanks.

Best wishes,
Don.