Small Contact form

Simple but flexible contact form builder with custom fields, validation and passive antispam.

Installation

GitHub clone into /plugins dir:

git clone https://github.com/jan-vince/smallcontactform

OctoberCMS backend

Just look for 'Small Contact Form' in search field in:

Settings > Updates & Plugins > Install plugins

Permissions

Settings > Administrators

You can set permissions to restrict access to Settings > Small plugins > Contact form and to messages list.

Installation with composer

Edit composer.json by adding new repository

"repositories": [
    {
      "type": "vcs",
      "url": "https://github.com/jan-vince/smallcontactform"
    }
]

run in command line

composer require janvince/smallcontactform

Setup new Contact form

Settings > Small Contact form

FORM

You can set your own CSS class name and general success/error messages.
If you need it, placeholders can be used instead of labels
Form can be hidden after successful submit.

Enable AJAX

By default, sending form will trigger page reload. With AJAX, everything can be done without page reloading which will be more user friendly.
If user's browser doesn't support (or has disabled) JavaScript, form will still work with page reloads after send.

For AJAX enabled form, before send confirmation dialog can be required.

Add Assets

If you want to start quickly, you can enable Add assets checkbox - and then Add CSS and JS assets.
This will include necessary styles (Bootstrap, AJAX, October AJAX) and scripts (jQuery, Bootstrap, October AJAX framework and extras).

But you have to include Twig tags {% styles %} and {% scripts %} into your layout or page like this:

<html>
    <head>
        {% styles %}
    </head>
<body>

    {% page %}

    {% scripts %}

</body>

</html>

If you want to insert assets by hand, you can do it this way (or similar):

<html>
    <head>
        <link href="{{['~/modules/system/assets/css/framework.extras.css']|theme }}.css" rel="stylesheet">
    </head>
<body>

    {% page %}

    <script type="text/javascript" src="{{ [
        '@jquery',
        '@framework',
        '@framework.extras']|theme}}.js">
    </script>

</body>

</html>

Notes

You can add your notes that can be displayed in mail templates. Field is accesiible with {{ form_notes }}.

Form notes content can be overriden in component's properties.

SEND BUTTON

You can set button class and text.

Redirection after the form is sent

You have some options to control redirection after form is successfully sent:

In main form settings you can allow redirection and set fixed URL (internal or external)
In component properties (on CMS Page or Layout) you can override main redirection settings for a specific form
You can add a dynamic redirect URL as a markup parameter eg. {% component 'contactForm' redirect_url = ('/success#'~this.page.id) %}

If you use markup parameter do not forget to allow form redirection in form main settings or (rather) in component parameters ! There is no markup parametr to allow redirection.

FIELDS

Here you can add fields to build your contact (or other) form.

The idea is simple (and solution is so I hope):

Click to add new field
- Set it's name (this is used for <input name="{{name}}" id="{{name}}">), so it should be lowercase without special characters.
- Set Label if you need one (it is used for descriptive text above input field)
- Set autofocus if you want cursor to automatically jump to this field (if checked more than one field, cursor jumps to first one)

When dropdown is selected there will be values/options repeater shown. You can add as many values you need.

Hint: you can add dropdown empty option by adding a value with empty ID.

You can also use Custom code and have complete control of generated code.

There is also a Custom content field to add formated content in place of a field.

Field data validation

You can select from predefined rules or add custom Validator rules (read documentation).

Some rules require additional validation pattern some of them not.

You can add one or more validation rules and error messages for them
Error messages will be shown above input field
You can reorder fields by drag and drop left circle (all fields can be collapsed by pressing Ctrl+click (Cmd+click on MacOS) on arrow in right top corners)

Hint: For dropdown validation you can use custom validation type with rule in and list of IDs in pattern field (eg: 1,2,3).

Note: There is a custom_not_regex validation rule as an inverse to built in regex.

COLUMNS MAPPING

System writes all form data in database, but for quick overview Name, Email and Message columns are visible separately in Messages list.

But you have to help system to identify these columns by mapping to your form fields.

These mappings are also used for autoreply emails where at least Email field mapping is important.

ANTISPAM

Passive antispam

Very simple implementation of passive antispam (inspired by Nette AntiSpam Control).

The idea behind this is to check how fast is form send and if robots-catching field is filled.

When allowed, you can set form delay (in seconds) to prevent too fast form sending (mostly by robots). You can add custom error message (will be shown in general error message box above form).
You can add antispam field label and error message for non JavaScript enabled browsers.
If JavaScript is working, antispam field is automatically hidden and cleared.

Google reCaptcha

Implementation of Google reCaptcha antispam protection.

Setup

First you have to create new API keys pair in reCaptcha admin panel.

Hit Get reCAPTCHA button on reCaptcha wellcome page. Set label and check reCAPTCHA v2 (or v2 invisible) option and hit button Register.

Copy Site key and Secret key to Contact Form's settings fields.

If you want Contact Form to automatically include server scripts in your layout, check the button in Form settings.

reCaptcha invisible

If you use reCaptcha invisible and want to hide reCaptcha badge, you can add to your styles:

.grecaptcha-badge { 
    visibility: hidden;
}

But remember to add info about Privacy policy near your contact form (or as a custom content field).

Check sender's IP

You can add an extra form protection with limit submits from one IP address.

This check has own error message and custom field to set maximum submits.

EMAIL

Mails can be sent directly or queued (OctoberCMS queue must be configured!).

Don't forget to configure mail preferences in Settings > Mail > Mail configuration!

Data in email templates

There are variables available in all email templates:

fields is array of [ 'field name' => 'post value' ]
fieldsDetails is array of [ 'field name' => ['name', 'value', 'type', ...] ]
uploads is array of uploads (of class System\Models\File)
messageObject is a model instance of a selected message

Allow autoreply

Email can be send to form sender as confirmation.

You have to enter email address and name - it will be used as FROM field
Email subject can be manually added here (or edited in Settings > Mail > Mail templates (code: janvince.smallcontactform::mail.autoreply))
Email TO address and name have to be assigned to form fields (in selections only corresponding field types are shown - if you don't see one, try to check it's type in Fields tab)
Email REPLY TO address can be set
Message field can be also assigned (and will be saved separately into database)

Allow notifications

Once a Contact form is sent a notification can be immediately send to a provided email address (or comma-separated list of addresses).

A Reply to address of notification email will be set to an email address from Contact form (if this field is used).

You can also force From address to be set to the one entered in Contact form - but not all email systems support this!

TRANSLATION

You can allow translation with RainLab Translate plugin.

After installation of Translate plugin, please add at least two languages in Settings > Translate > Manage languages. For translations to work there must be a localePicker component included in your layout/page.

Form texts

Most of Small Contact form texts can be edited right in Settings > Small plugins > Contact form.

Custom form fields

Translate plugin doesn't supports translation of individual repeater fields yet, so form field texts (label, validation error messages) have to be - for now - translated in a dictionary: Settings > Translate > Translate messages

Please note that form fields labels will be shown in dictionary after first form render (on your frontend page) and validation error messages after first send.

Email templates

You can create your own email templates in Settings > Mail > Mail templates (for hint look inside of default templates starting with janvince.smallcontactform::).

Remember your email templates CODE and put in in Small Contact form email settings in Settings > Small plugins > Contact form > Email tab. For each language there can be specific template.

There are {{fields}} and {{fieldsDetails}} arrays available inside of email templates.

You can also use {{url}} variable to get original request URL.

*If your custom form field has name eg. 'email', you use it in template with {{fields.email}}.

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