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1. Tutorial about Create Custom Contact Form in
Magento

2. sql/customcontacts_setup/mysql4-install-0.1.0.php
Manually inserting a custom email template straight into the database.
This isn’t really a necessary step because you could just create one
manually by going to System > Transactional Emails. To save you a bit of
time I’ve set up a really basic one which is very similar to the standard
contact form email template.

3. 1 | <?php
2 | $installer = $this;
3 | $installer->startSetup();
4 |
5 | $installer->run("
6 | INSERT INTO {$this->getTable('core_email_template')}
(`template_code`, `template_text`, `template_type`, `template_subject`, `template_sender_n
ame`, `template_sender_email`, `added_at`, `modified_at`) VALUES
7 | ('Custom Contact Form', 'Name: {{var data.name}}rnSubject: {{var data.subject}}rnE-
mail: {{var data.email}}rnTelephone: {{var data.telephone}}rnComment: {{var
data.comment}}', 1, 'Custom Contact Form', NULL, NULL, NOW(), NOW());
8 | ");
9 | $installer->endSetup();

4. etc/config.xml
When creating frontend router, specified it as ‘custom-contact’. You can change this
to something more appropriate.
1 | <routers>
2 | <customcontacts>
3 | <use>standard</use>
4 | <args>
5 | <module>Creare_Customcontacts</module>
6 | <frontName>custom-contact</frontName>
7 | </args>
8 | </customcontacts>
9 | </routers>

5. During the setup script, create a transactional email template, but it’s not
possible to set this as a default with your form. So, you have to set a default
form from the locale unless you want to go and create your own html form in
the locale. The following goes within the global node:
1 | <template>
2 | <email>
3 | <contacts_customemail_email_template translate="label">
4 | <label>Contacts</label>
5 | <file>contact_form.html</file>
6 | <type>text</type>
7 | </contacts_customemail_email_template>
8 | </email>
9 | </template>

6. Following goes within the default node. This is just the process of assigning defaults to
the new config fields.
1<default>
2 <contacts>
3 <customcontacts>
4 <enabled>1</enabled>
5 </customcontacts>
6 <customemail>
7 <recipient_email><![CDATA[hello@example.com]]></recipient_email>
8 <sender_email_identity>custom2</sender_email_identity>
9 <email_template>contacts_customemail_email_template</email_template>
10 </customemail>
11 </contacts>
12</default>

7. Configuration
Once uploaded you need to set the custom email template to the new form: System >
Configuration > Contacts.

8. If you leave the config.xml settings as default you will be able to go to
yourdomain.com/custom-contacts to view your form. It will look identical to the
normal contact form. Now you can add as many extra fields as you want to the
template file without effecting the standard contact form. It can be found in the
base/default theme at customcontacts/form.

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