How to Add a Field to the Drupal Contact form

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Ever wish you could use the existing Drupal Contact module as your sitewide contact form and just add a field or two? You can and it's really easy. All you need to do is create a new module and add the fields via the hook_form_alter() function. Here's an example of how we do it on metaltoad.com:

<?php	
 
/**
 * Implementation of hook_form_alter().
 * @see http://api.drupal.org/api/function/hook_form_alter
 * We add a few custom fields to the default Drupal contact form
 */
function mtmcontact_form_contact_mail_page_alter(&$form, $form_state) {
 
	$form['company'] = array(
		'#title' => t('Your company'),
		'#type' => 'textfield',
		'#required' => true,
	);
	$form['phone'] = array(
		'#title' => t('Your phone'),
		'#type' => 'textfield',
	);
 
	// reorder the elements in the form to include the elements being inserted
	$order = array('contact_information', 'name', 'company', 'phone', 'mail', 'subject', 'message', 'copy', 'submit');
	foreach($order as $key => $field) {
		$form[$field]['#weight'] = $key;
	}
}

The second part keeps the fields in an explicit order and includes references to the form elements that are already created by the Contact module. To change the order, simply modify the array.

Comments

Posted by Anonymous on . [Reply]

Where in drupal, i mean in which file I have to do this changes. I am using drupal version 6. So please help me out.

Sorry for not putting home page, because i have my site on localhost. Trying to learn drupal.

Thanks

Posted by Anonymous on . [Reply]

Someone knows how to add a javascript function (es. onchange) to a the SELECT tag of Category filed in Drupal 6?

I'm trying with #attributes but seems not work..

Posted by mark hankins on . [Reply]

WHat D version is this for? I'm just trying to add a "phone" field in D7 (first project since moveing from D6) and it won't work using hook_form_alter!

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Posted by Dylan Tack on . [Reply]

This code was written for Drupal 6. It's pretty obsolete now, I would recommend trying the webform module instead.

Posted by Elvis on . [Reply]

Since this article is for drupal 6, how do I add another field in drupal 7?

Posted by csyr on . [Reply]

it works well to add field for this form .but how can i save the field's data to database ?

Posted by prasannah on . [Reply]

I need to implement "Send yourself a copy." feature as we would find in the default contact form on Drupal 7 to new form I setup with Webforms module. Can someone be able to help me with this.

Posted by Everett Zufelt on . [Reply]

FYI, in drupal 7 the hook changes, you need to use:

hook_form_FORM_ID_alter()

So your function would look like:

function yourmodule_form_contact_site_form_alter(&$form, &$form_state, $form_id) {
// place code here.
}

Posted by João Antonio Ferreira on . [Reply]

Use something like this to send company and phone with mail message:

/**
* Implements hook_mail().
*/
function YOURMODULENAME_mail_alter(&$message) {
if ($message['id'] == 'contact_page_mail' ||
$message['id'] == 'contact_page_autoreply') {
$message['body'][] = t('company') . ': "' . $message['params']['company'] . '"';
$message['body'][] = t('phone') . ': "' . $message['params']['phone'] . '"';

. . .
}
}

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