Contact page

[newtech1]

Here is what I have done for now.
I just changed some of the wording on the the submit story form and the language file to make it so the same form could be used for e-mails or to submit stories.

To make e-mail address required I did the following in the addsubmissionaction.class php file:

Deleted the following:

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$this->_userEmailAddress = $this->_request->getValue( "userEmailAddress" );

and replaced it with:

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                $this->_userEmailAddress = $this->_request->getValue( "userEmailAddress" );
            $val1 = new StringValidator();
            if( !$val1->validate( $this->_userEmailAddress )) {
                $errors["userEmailAddress"] = true;
                $message["userEmailAddress"] = $this->_locale->tr("error_submission_no_email");
            }
           

This requires adding 'error_submission_no_email' message in language file.

Also requires

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  {if $errors.userEmailAddress}<span style="background:red;color:white;font-weight:bold">&nbsp;!&nbsp;</span>&nbsp;{$message.userEmailAddress}</p>{/if}

being added in the submitform.template

Note: Users must select a category for the form to work, so I just put a note for them to select any category if they are just submitting an e-mail.

After doing all of the above I just put in the header of each template | Contact Us | with a link to the submit story template.

[jondaley]

Looks good. Except that you should use the emailvalidator rather than a string validator. The string validator only makes sure that it is non-empty and doesn't contain HTML.

[newtech1]

No idea how to put an e-mail validator, when I get time I will look around to figure it out.

The only main issue with the submissions plug-in is that even without the editing, the submission form does not work real well with some of the templates. It appears because the sumission form template has at the end the footer.template reference and it depends how the various templates use the footer.template. Or some other issue where the submission form will not always fall in the correct place of a template.

[jondaley]

Where you have "StringValidator" change that to "EmailValidator" and you'll be done, the validator already exists in the LT core code.

[newtech1]

When doing what is recommended I get a white page when submitting form.
Ther error message is:
PHP Fatal error: Class 'EmailValidator' not found in /html/blog/plugins/submissions/class/action/addsubmissionaction.class.php on line 36

[jondaley]

You need an lt_include line for the emailvalidator.

[newtech1]

I am coming back to this topic. (This was the one plug-in besides gravatar I had editd).
Can you give show me the code to:
You need an lt_include line for the emailvalidator.

[jondaley]

Just change:
lt_include( PLOG_CLASS_PATH."class/data/validator/stringvalidator.class.php" );
to:
lt_include( PLOG_CLASS_PATH."class/data/validator/emailvalidator.class.php" );

[jondaley]

(or if you are still using a stringvalidator somewhere, you'll need to copy it, so you end up with both validators being included.

[jondaley]

Due to changing my own site from a separate installation to a shared installation, I've needed to redo my contact page (which used to simply use php), but I can't let random people run php code on my server, so I needed to come up with a plugin.
The "contact" plugin is now available via sourceforge for lifetype 1.2.

[newtech1]

Can you give more detailed instructions on this plug-in in the readme?
I have installed the plug in, but it appears some settings and details are missing.

Other than turning the plug-in on or off I do not see any other settings in admin. Shouldn't there be a setting for what e-mail address the form should go to, etc.

[jondaley]

It sends to the blog owner. You shouldn't really need to configure it? I was thinking about using a template file, so you could edit the template easier, but you can also just use the styles.