Form Fields

Contact Enhanced has the ability to allow webmasters to assign Form Fields to contact forms. Form Fields offer a lot of flexibility that allows you to create more a simple contact form.

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Description

Form Fields allows you to extend the functionality of Contact Enhanced.

Requirement

  1. Have created one or more Contact Enhanced categories;

important Information

  1. You can add as many Form Fields as you'd like;
  2. The Name, Email, Subject and Recipient Form Field types have special behaviors;
  3. Every Form MUST have the Name and Email Form Field types; If you don't want to display them, then set the value and hide them;
  4. Read more information regarding the Form Fields in the Documentation Page.

Usage

Select Components → Contact Enhanced → Form Fields from the drop-down menu of the Joomla! Administrator Panel.

To add a new Form Field, press the "New" icon in the toolbar. To edit an existing Form Field, click on the Form Field's Name OR click the Form Field's checkbox and then click on the "Edit" icon in the toolbar.

If you need different forms, assign the Form Fields to different categories and create new contacts for these categories as well;

Read more: Basic Features

You can display HTML anywhere in the form using the Free Text Form Field type;

How to access it:

  1. Go to Components →Contact Enhanced → Form Fields;
  2. Create a new Form Field, set the Type to Free Text and Save;
  3. Add any value you want to the Value, including HTML content and Save.

 

Tutorial (Joomla 1.5)

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Value:

Any text

The value will be displayed in the email message;

Advanced:

If you want to integrate Contact Enhanced with other systems you just you can send variables in the URL that will populate the fields;

You will just have to add alias=example to the URL, where alias is the Form Field alias. For example we'll prefill the Subject and website fields in our Support Contact Form, take a look:

https://idealextensions.com/support/contact.html?subject=Add+a+subject+via+Query+String&website=adomain.com

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