Miscellaneous Hacks - Contact Us Enhancement

Contact Us Enhancement
by ChrisTERiS

25 Mar 2012 New version 1.1.0 Changes

• Shows the company email as: you [at] domain.com instead of link
• Moves the error messages just above the form to be more visible
• Fixes a bug of blank page if errors occured.
• I made transparent the image which appears in the form, for better appearance in dark backgrounds.

To upgrade:

1. Download and unzip the new version
2. Upload contactus.php at your forum directory
3. Upload the file images/misc/contactus.png to images/misc overwritting the old one.
4. Import product-contactus.xml checking overwrite.

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Like my Memberlist, this hack adds more features and a better design to the poor vB Contact Us Form. In details

1. Lite version
   1. Ability to show one (or more) from the fields below in the contact us page:
      1. Company Name
      2. Address
      3. City, Zipcode
      4. State, Country
      5. Phone
      6. Fax
      7. Website
      8. Email
      9. Working hours
   2. Ability to request email verification from guest who are using the contact us form. If the user does not confirm his email in the given time, then a cronjob removes it, and you'll never be distrurbed from the spam emails.
   3. Visitor can request to get a copy of the message
   4. Ability to request from Guest to agree to your TOS before the "Submit button" appears.
   5. Ability to add a welcome intro text which appears at the top of the page.
2. Pro version
   1. No Copyright link
   2. Ability to show Google Map of your location (just below your company's details)
   3. Ability to set departments, each one with its own email address.
   4. Ability to add extra fields in the form.

Installation:

1. Download, Unzip and upload all files from the folder upload to the directory where your vB installation exist. contact.php file must be on the same level as forum.php
2. Login to your Admincp and import product-contactus.xml
3. Set the settings at Contact Us-> General settings
4. That's all. After testing it's functionality and you want to use this page instead the original one, you must goto vB Settings-> Site Name / URL / Contact Details and replace sendmessage.php with contactus.php

Copyright:

There is a small copyright link in the bottom of the page. Don't remove it please.

Thank you
Chris

[Christos Teriakis]

I added a screenshot from the PRO version which I just finished.

Chris

[Christos Teriakis]

25 Mar 2012 New version 1.1.0 Changes

• Shows the company email as: you [at] domain.com instead of link
• Moves the error messages just above the form to be more visible
• Fixes a bug of blank page if errors occured.
• I made transparent the image which appears in the form, for better appearance in dark backgrounds.

To upgrade:

1. Download and unzip the new version
2. Upload contactus.php at your forum directory
3. Upload the file images/misc/contactus.png to images/misc overwritting the old one.
4. Import product-contactus.xml checking overwrite.

Greetings
Chris

[1320Nation]

Seems to be working flawlessly now. I did put the contactus.png image in photoshop and sharpen it up and well as brighten it up some. It looks much better now with my black background.

[Charis]

Thanks Chris,
Very nice mod indeed.

[anandbagmane]

where we can buy this mods?

[Christos Teriakis]

Originally Posted by anandbagmane

where we can buy this mods?

From Monday morning and then, at: http://www.vbulleton.com

Chris

[BirdOPrey5]

Specific pricing can not be discussed on the forum, please take it to PM.

[Energypac]

Chris, This looks close to what I need and thank you about the classifieds mod I pm you earlier about. I made a copy of sendmessage.php and renamed the copy sendmessage2.php and linked to it from my navbar. It works however I want to change what radio buttons and maybe ad a message how could I use your mod, leave original "Contact Us" and modify the new sendmessage.php.
thanks
Marc J. Clark

[Christos Teriakis]

Originally Posted by Energypac

Chris, This looks close to what I need and thank you about the classifieds mod I pm you earlier about. I made a copy of sendmessage.php and renamed the copy sendmessage2.php and linked to it from my navbar. It works however I want to change what radio buttons and maybe ad a message how could I use your mod, leave original "Contact Us" and modify the new sendmessage.php.
thanks
Marc J. Clark

Hello Marc,

Why you're doing such complicated work? Just upload the files and then goto admincp-> vB Settings-> Options-> Site Name / URL / Contact Details and set:
Contact Us Link = contactus.php instead of sendmessage.php

Chris

[Nirjonadda]

Joe ! where is the PRO version ? Does not found on Qapla ?