Hello All,
Many of you who are working in Magento might have come accross the need to make custom form for getting user data.
I am writing here an example to display form (with validation) for submitting basic info and send a mail on the email submitted.
Suppose the from need to be displayed at this url -> http://youmagentohost/formurl/
<?php
$url = Mage::getBaseUrl().'requestfrm';
//below code for sending mail after form is submitted
//start
if(isset($_POST) && !empty($_POST['request_flag'])):
$params = $this->getRequest()->getParams(); //Fetch submited params
//print_r($params);
// message start
$message = '';
if(!empty($params)):
$message = "
<html>
<head>
<title>Customer details</title>
</head>
<body>
<table border='0' cellpadding='4' cellspacing='0' width='90%'>
<tbody>
<tr>
<td align='center' colspan='2' height='30' >Customer Details</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td align='right' width='40%'><b>Name:</b></td>
<td width='55%'>".$params['name']."</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td align='right' width='40%'><b>Email Address:</b></td>
<td width='55%'>".$params['email']."</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td align='right' width='40%'><b>Phone Number:</b></td>
<td width='55%'>".$params['phone']."</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td align='right' width='40%'><b>Comments:</b></td>
<td width='55%'>".$params['comment']."</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</body>
</html>";
endif;
$to = Mage::getStoreConfig('contacts/email/recipient_email'); //get email address set from site admin
$dt = date('d-m-Y');
// subject
$subject = "Customer details submitted on date $dt";
// message end
$mail = new Zend_Mail();
$mail->setBodyHtml($message);
$mail->setFrom($params['email'], $params['name']);
$mail->addTo($to, 'Site Admin');
$mail->setSubject($subject);
try {
if($mail->send())
{
Mage::getSingleton('core/session')->addSuccess('Mail sent successfully. We will contact you shortly');
}
}
catch(Exception $ex) {
Mage::getSingleton('core/session')->addError('Unable to send email.');
}
endif;
//end
?>
<div align="left">
<div>
<form action="<?php echo $url ?>" id="requestForm" method="post">
<div>
<div>
<div>
<h3 class="txt-blue"><?php echo Mage::helper('contacts')->__('Information') ?></h3>
</div>
<ul class="form-list">
<li>
<label class="required"><?php echo $this->__('Name') ?> <font color="red">*</font></label>
<div class="input-box">
<input name="name" id="name" title="name" value="" class="small required-entry" type="text" />
</div>
</li>
<li>
<label class="required"><?php echo $this->__('Email Address') ?> <font color="red">*</font></label>
<div class="input-box">
<input name="email" id="email" title="email" value="" class="small required-entry validate-email" type="text" />
</div>
</li>
<li>
<label><?php echo $this->__('Phone Number') ?></label>
<div class="input-box">
<input name="phone" id="phone" title="phone" value="" type="text" />
</div>
</li>
<li>
<label for="comment"><?php echo $this->__('Comment') ?></label>
<div class="input-box">
<textarea name="comment" id="comment" title="" cols="5" rows="3"></textarea>
</div>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
<div style="margin:0">
<p style="padding-right:10px;"><?php echo $this->__("<font color='red'>*</font> Required Fields") ?></p>
<div style="padding-right:10px;"><button type="submit" title="<?php echo $this->__('Submit') ?>" ><span><?php echo $this->__('Submit') ?></span></button></div>
</div>
<input type="hidden" name="request_flag" value="1"/>
</form>
<script type="text/javascript">
//<![CDATA[
var contactForm = new VarienForm('requestForm', true);
//]]>
</script>
</div>
</div>
Updates
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Steps
1) Create a page frm.phtml in app\design\frontend\default\default\template\contacts, paste all the code as given in the post in this file
2) Create a page from Store Admin-end > CMS > Pages
3) Assign the value ‘requestfrm’ in URL Key
4) Browse to Pages > Content (Tab in the left column)
5) Paste the content ‘{{block type=”core/template” name=”newForm” template=”contacts/frm.phtml”}}’ (excluding the single quote) and save it
The page can be seen at http://storeurl/requestfrm
another input for Europe:
$mail = new Zend_Mail(‘UTF-8’);
another point. i get no sucess message until page is reloaded.
i made this changes and it works now:
if($mail->send())
{
Mage::getSingleton(‘core/session’)->addSuccess(‘Mail sent successfully. We will contact you shortly’);
/* qweb mod */
Header(‘Location: ‘.$_SERVER[‘PHP_SELF’]);
}
}
catch(Exception $ex) {
Mage::getSingleton(‘core/session’)->addError(‘Unable to send email.’);
/* qweb mod */
Header(‘Location: ‘.$_SERVER[‘PHP_SELF’]);
}
Any better solution???
Great Simple Script!!
We change:
$url = Mage::getBaseUrl().’requestfrm’;
to:
$url = $this->helper(‘core/url’)->getCurrentUrl();
And now it works on different CMS Pages without any Problem. You should change it 😉
THX!!
First of all..Thanks for this great post.
But can you please tell me how can i save form data into database..and display the same in admin panel grid.
plz suggest me…
Please refer this http://www.magentocommerce.com/wiki/5_-_modules_and_development/0_-_module_development_in_magento/how_to_create_an_admin_form_module
Hi,
Older threat but great tutorial, I have a need this form with 40+ checkboxes , so that customers can choose.. say for example 5 product samples..
How do i include these chosen checkboxes into the form..?
Thanks in advance!
Best
A
Create a Group of Checkboxes
Hello DWRoot.
Thanks for sharing this topic …
i tried to implement it but it seems the code of frm.phtml is not executed at all. In fact I got a blank page.
Any idea? could you help me out?
Magento version is 1.7.0.2
Can you please check whether the admin page content is proper or not, Would you list down the process(steps) done by you ?
I am having the same problem with Francesco. The page exists(not 404), but with empty content on the page, seems like the frm.phtml isn’t executed properly.
Please go through the steps I mentioned and also check the paths and name of the files
Hi,
how to implement this? Where to put this php file? And how to call it?
Thx
You can save the information in DB if its required, and you can make a view page in any of your existing module or can make a new module and can use the above code. You can also call a view page (containing form) from a static block from admin end.
Hi you wrote:You can also call a view page (containing form) from a static block from admin end….
So you mean create in for example app/design/frontend/template/contacts/ create anotherform.phtml, insert this code into it and then call it? How? I mean you suppose the from need to be displayed at this url -> http://youmagentohost/formurl/ and first line is magento url with requestfrm. I do not undeerstand. Could it be step by step? Thank you
Steps
1) Create a page frm.phtml in app\design\frontend\default\default\template\contacts, paste all the code as given in the post in this file
2) Create a page from Store Admin-end > CMS > Pages
3) Assign the value ‘requestfrm’ in URL Key
4) Browse to Pages > Content (Tab in the left column)
5) Paste the content ‘{{block type=”core/template” name=”newForm” template=”contacts/frm.phtml”}}’ (excluding the single quote) and save it
The page can be seen at http://storeurl/requestfrm
Hope this is in details for you now 😉
I got it. Thank you
Hi, Nice job done there.
I tried your code but I am not receiving any email though I get an success message on my screen.
Can you tell me what might be the issue?
I am using Magneto 1.7
Are you on local environment, if yes than SMTP should be configured in your local instance. Also check in Adminend > System > Configuration > System , there is a flag for Disable Mail Communication, it should be set to No
Thank you very much.
Now i will create many contact forms using this script.
Thanks a lot
Hello DWRoot,
First of all, thanks for sharing these information. They sure are helpful specially the “Queries in Magento” article.
Its just that I can’t integrate it to my Magento 1.7.0.0 installation on my own.
Thanks tho.
@Bokz – What issue are you facing, can you please describe in detail
Thanks for the code, I will try to implement this for a custom contact form, I have magento 1.7.1, hope it will work!
ok, but where I save this form?
where call this form, with static blocks?
@William – You can save the information in DB if its required, and you can make a view page in any of your existing module or can make a new module and can use the above code. You can also call a view page (containing form) from a static block from admin end.
Hi,
I found this very useful.Can you please guide me how to insert all the fields into database table?
Thank you,
Vittal
@Vittal – You can create a module and can use the save() function, or can execute raw query the magento way. Please refer this post of mine Queries in Magento