contact form on my ezpublish site

Thursday 11 January 2007 9:48:07 pm

You need to add a line to the template that processes sending the emails. Since ez has an extensible template override system and by your own admission you're not a "code guy" you may have a hard time finding the correct template to edit - you may even need to add a new override if the site is using the default at the moment. It may be in override/templates/collectedinfomail/feedback_form.tpl or similar. The line you need to add has to correspond to the field in the form that collects the sender's email address. In one live site of mine, the following works:

{set-block scope=global variable=email_sender}{$collection.attributes.2.data_text}{/set-block}

I hope that helps a little.
Matthew

http://carroll.org.uk

Friday 02 March 2007 10:12:35 am

Okay I found the TPL that relates to my form, now I will clarify my issue.

The following link is my form:

http://www.cecvp.com/index.php?/plain/contact_us

Now heres my issue, the form is simply not done right I think. Instead of sending me this answer, like it should, for example on "I am interested in" (assuming someone chooses just two things):

I am intertested in: electronics, vibration transducers

Instead, my idiot programmer made it so that each item on the form, without exception, is a line with a colon. So it looks like 12 pages of this:

name:

catalog:

Vibration transducer:

etc

you get the idea. This form should print out in 1 page, 2 max. So my question is, how do I fix it? Any good tutorials? I don't want to change the form itself, just the manner in which it is formatted.

So heres the code:

{set-block scope=root variable=subject}{"Collected information from %1"|i18n("design/base",,array($collection.object.name|wash))}{/set-block}

{set-block scope=root variable=email_receiver}{$object.data_map.recipient.content}{/set-block}

{* Set this to redirect to another node
{set-block scope=root variable=redirect_to_node_id}2{/set-block}
*}

{"The following information was collected"|i18n("design/base")}:

{section name=Attribute loop=$node.data_map}



{if and(ne($Attribute:item.contentclass_attribute_name,'Recipient'),
ne($Attribute:item.contentclass_attribute_name,'Name'),
ne($Attribute:item.contentclass_attribute_name,'Description'))}

{if eq($Attribute:item.contentclass_attribute_name,'Vibration Transducers')}
	<br /><strong>I am interested in:</strong><br />
{/if}

{if eq($Attribute:item.contentclass_attribute_name,'Utility')}
	<br /><strong>Company Description Profile:</strong><br />
{/if}


{$Attribute:item.contentclass_attribute_name|wash}:
{attribute_result_gui view=info attribute=$:item}

{/if}
{/section}

Tuesday 06 March 2007 11:17:56 am

I think the problem is that the content of the attribute is not checked before it is printed so all attributes are printed no matter whether they are checked or not.

Without knowing the type of the attributes it is hard to say how to check whether something is selected or not. If the attribute is an checkbox you can try to change the almost last lines of your template like this:

{if $Attribute:item.content}
  {$Attribute:item.contentclass_attribute_name|wash}:
  {attribute_result_gui view=info attribute=$:item}
{/if}

This should check the content of the attribute and only display the next lines, if there is some content, meaning something is selected.

Please note that I have NOT tested this and it might not work. So if you have to try this on your live server please try sometime late at night and make a backup of the template beforehand...

You can also try to remove some linebreaks in the template and have a look whether this makes the email a bit more compact.

Claudia

PS: And please stop complaining about your 'idiot' programmer - sue him or do whatever else might make you happy but please leave the forum out of it.

Friday 09 March 2007 11:10:20 am

sorry forgot to link the form, here it is: http://www.cecvp.com/index.php?/plain/contact_us

Friday 16 March 2007 6:51:00 am

Try something like this in the feedback form template:

{set-block scope=root variable=subject}{"Collected information from %1"|i18n("design/base",,array($collection.object.name|wash))}{/set-block}
{set-block scope=root variable=email_receiver}{$object.data_map.recipient.content}{/set-block}
{set-block scope=global variable=email_sender}{$collection.attributes.3.data_text}{/set-block}
{* Set this to redirect to another node
{set-block scope=root variable=redirect_to_node_id}2{/set-block}
*}
{"The following information was collected"|i18n("design/standard/content/edit")}:

{section name=Attribute loop=$collection.attributes}
{if eq($Attribute:item.contentclass_attribute_name,'Vibration Transducers')}
<strong>I am interested in:</strong><br />
{/if}
{if eq($Attribute:item.contentclass_attribute_name,'Utility')}
<strong>Company Description Profile:</strong><br />
{/if}
{$Attribute:item.contentclass_attribute_name|wash}:
{attribute_result_gui view=info attribute=$Attribute:item}<br />
{/section}

Although you might need to change the number 3 in the set-block scope=global variable=email_sender line to whatever you have currently.