{"id":24223,"date":"2012-09-28T04:53:41","date_gmt":"2012-09-28T08:53:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.templatemonster.com\/help\/?p=24223"},"modified":"2016-02-24T03:27:02","modified_gmt":"2016-02-24T08:27:02","slug":"drupal-7-how-to-setup-contact-form-and-manage-contact-details","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.templatemonster.com\/help\/drupal-7-how-to-setup-contact-form-and-manage-contact-details.html","title":{"rendered":"Drupal 7. How to setup Contact Form and manage contact details"},"content":{"rendered":"

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This tutorial is going to show you how to add a contact form to your Drupal template, change the email address and edit the form fields. <\/p>\r\n

How to add the contact form?<\/h3>\r\n
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  1. In your Drupal admin go to menu Modules<\/strong> \u2013 and enable the one called Contact<\/strong>7.7 (Enables the use of both personal and site-wide contact forms). Check it and click Save Configuration<\/strong> at the bottom. <\/li>\r\n

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  2. Make sure that under the Modules<\/strong> menu -> Panels <\/strong>all these modules are enabled:<\/li>\r\n

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  3. Go to menu Structure -> Pages <\/strong><\/li>\r\n

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  4. Click on Import Page<\/strong><\/li>\r\n
  5. Page name<\/strong> <\/strong>should be Contacts <\/strong><\/li>\r\n
  6. Path<\/strong> <\/strong>should be contacts<\/strong><\/li>\r\n
  7. Allow overwrite of an existing page<\/strong> should be checked.<\/li>\r\n
  8. To Paste page code here <\/strong>add the following:<\/li>\r\n
    \r\n$page = new stdClass();\r\n$page->disabled = FALSE; \/* Edit this to true to make a default page disabled initially *\/\r\n$page->api_version = 1;\r\n$page->name = 'contacts';\r\n$page->task = 'page';\r\n$page->admin_title = 'Contacts';\r\n$page->admin_description = '';\r\n$page->path = 'contacts';\r\n$page->access = array();\r\n$page->menu = array();\r\n$page->arguments = array();\r\n$page->conf = array(\r\n  'admin_paths' => FALSE,\r\n);\r\n$page->default_handlers = array();\r\n$handler = new stdClass();\r\n$handler->disabled = FALSE; \/* Edit this to true to make a default handler disabled initially *\/\r\n$handler->api_version = 1;\r\n$handler->name = 'page_contacts_panel_context';\r\n$handler->task = 'page';\r\n$handler->subtask = 'contacts';\r\n$handler->handler = 'panel_context';\r\n$handler->weight = 0;\r\n$handler->conf = array(\r\n  'title' => 'Panel',\r\n  'no_blocks' => 0,\r\n  'pipeline' => 'standard',\r\n  'css_id' => 'contacts',\r\n  'css' => '',\r\n  'contexts' => array(),\r\n  'relationships' => array(),\r\n);\r\n$display = new panels_display();\r\n$display->layout = 'flexible:two_columns';\r\n$display->layout_settings = array();\r\n$display->panel_settings = array(\r\n  'style_settings' => array(\r\n    'default' => NULL,\r\n    'center' => NULL,\r\n    'column_right' => NULL,\r\n    'second_column' => NULL,\r\n  ),\r\n);\r\n$display->cache = array();\r\n$display->title = '';\r\n$display->content = array();\r\n$display->panels = array();\r\n  $pane = new stdClass();\r\n  $pane->pid = 'new-1';\r\n  $pane->panel = 'center';\r\n  $pane->type = 'contact';\r\n  $pane->subtype = 'contact';\r\n  $pane->shown = TRUE;\r\n  $pane->access = array();\r\n  $pane->configuration = array(\r\n    'override_title' => 0,\r\n    'override_title_text' => '',\r\n  );\r\n  $pane->cache = array();\r\n  $pane->style = array(\r\n    'settings' => NULL,\r\n  );\r\n  $pane->css = array();\r\n  $pane->extras = array();\r\n  $pane->position = 0;\r\n  $pane->locks = '';\r\n  $display->content['new-1'] = $pane;\r\n  $display->panels['center'][0] = 'new-1';\r\n  $pane = new stdClass();\r\n  $pane->pid = 'new-2';\r\n  $pane->panel = 'second_column';\r\n  $pane->type = 'block';\r\n  $pane->subtype = 'block-1';\r\n  $pane->shown = TRUE;\r\n  $pane->access = array();\r\n  $pane->configuration = array(\r\n    'override_title' => 1,\r\n    'override_title_text' => 'Our Location',\r\n  );\r\n  $pane->cache = array();\r\n  $pane->style = array(\r\n    'settings' => NULL,\r\n  );\r\n  $pane->css = array();\r\n  $pane->extras = array();\r\n  $pane->position = 0;\r\n  $pane->locks = array();\r\n  $display->content['new-2'] = $pane;\r\n  $display->panels['second_column'][0] = 'new-2';\r\n$display->hide_title = PANELS_TITLE_NONE;\r\n$display->title_pane = 'new-1';\r\n$handler->conf['display'] = $display;\r\n<\/pre>\r\n
  9. Click Import<\/strong> at the bottom. <\/li>\r\n
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  10. On the next page, click Save<\/strong> at the bottom.<\/li>\r\n
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  11. On the same page, where it says Menu<\/strong> No menu entry under Summary,<\/strong> click edit<\/strong> to add a menu tab pointed to your contact page.<\/li>\r\n
  12. Now you can open the front page of  your site and click the Contacts menu to see the page with the form you have  just created.<\/li>\r\n
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  13. You can always go back to page  settings under Structure -> Panels -> Contacs -> edit.<\/li>\r\n<\/ol>\r\n
    How to  change the contact form email address?<\/h3>\r\n
    To activate  the form\/to change the email address go to you Structure -> Contacts Form<\/strong> menu -> edit. Click Save<\/strong> at the bottom to save the changes. <\/p>\r\n
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    How to  change the contact form fields?<\/p>\r\n
    To change  the fields that your contacts form comes with: <\/p>\r\n
    Your name *<\/strong>  <\/p>\r\n
    Your e-mail address *<\/strong><\/p>\r\n
    \r\n  Subject *<\/strong><\/p>\r\n
    \r\n  Message *<\/strong><\/p>\r\n
    Send yourself a copy.<\/strong>  <\/p>\r\n
    Send message<\/strong>  <\/p>\r\n
    you need to  edit the corresponding lines in the contact.pages.inc<\/strong> located in the\\modules\\contact<\/strong> folder:<\/p>\r\n
     ‘#title’ => t(‘Your name’),<\/strong>  <\/p>\r\n
    ‘#title’ => t(‘Your e-mail address’),<\/strong><\/p>\r\n
    \r\n  ‘#title’ => t(‘Subject’),<\/strong>  <\/p>\r\n
    ‘#title’ => t(‘Message’),<\/strong><\/p>\r\n
    \r\n  ‘#title’ => t(‘Send yourself a copy.’),<\/strong><\/p>\r\n
    \r\n  ‘#value’ => t(‘Send message’)<\/strong>  <\/p>\r\n
    The title  “Contact”  can be changed in your Drupal  admin panel under the menu Structure  -> Pages ->  <\/strong>Contacts  -> (left menu) Settings -> Basic -> <\/strong>Administrative title <\/strong>.<\/p>\r\n<\/p>\r\n
    \"\"<\/a><\/p>\r\n
    Feel free to check the detailed video tutorial below:<\/p>\r\n
    Drupal 7. How to setup Contact Form and manage contact details<\/a><\/p>\r\n<\/p>\r\n<\/p>\r\n
    <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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