Personal contact forms

....I can contact myself. Is that intentional?

If I go to page:

http://drupal.org/user/1/contact

It says:

From:
Tarlbot <my_real_email@address.com>
To:
Dries 

which implies to me that my_real_email@address.com will show to you (Dries) when you read it.

I suggest you post a support request here.
Btw to achieve this, you just need to tweak your theme.
If you're using phptemplate, just modify node.tpl.php to add this

     <span class="submitted"><?php   if ($node->type == 'page'):

else:

endif;
?> instead of

     <span class="submitted"><?php print $submitted; 

?>
This way if it's a page (you can drop the if else clause to get it working for all kind of node) it will dispay the "write to author" link.
Also se this code snipet.

Sorry - your comment is right on when operating in the Drupal dev forum.

I'm working with a group that wants to have easy communication among themselves using their User Name (real name) but they want to hide their "home" e-mail addresses at all times. The intent is to remove any opportunity for this information to get forwarded to anyone outside the group. And to keep everyone off the spammers radar.

Many large sites use a standard contact form in which you fill in your own email -- a requirement, as many large (non shopping or community) sites don't have or require accounts. For example:

http://wired.com/news/feedback/mail/1,2330,0-1291-66310,00.html

I wonder if these ever get spammed? Probably not worth the effort (then again...). It is nice to have the option of sending a comment without registering though - I'd guess it increases the number of mailed comments pretty significantly.

Thanks for the info. I'll work on it. I thin kit would possibly be worth putting in as an option, although with it should come a hefty warning saying what could happen. On the other hand, there are probably a number of other websites that use Drupal as mostly a backend and the number of users is just the maintainers of the website, and contacting could be very useful.

Dan "da Man"
Webmaster
http://cMusicWeb.com/
http://da-Man.com/

Just how would one go about doing that? I don't want to break the module or anything. On some of my sites only the maintainers of the sites are allowed log-ins. It would be great to have it set so that people could easily contact you. We already get a lot of spam from our addresses showing on the site (even when we do stuff to modify the address). So this probably wouldn't make the spam problem any worse.

It'd also be nice to be able to set the contact form option to default to on rather than off. I know a lot of people never look at their account settings page after they register.

Thanks!

This is a great module, by the way.

--
Jenni S.

Just for the few that have wondered on how to modify this module. It is a fully-working example on how to do this, and I havent seen a bug (only tested it for a few times).

What does it do? If you are registered (and logged in), there will be no difference. But if you arent, two new input fields will show up asking your name and email. Both fields are required to successfully submit the form.

A few things worth to mention:
- Check for valid email adresses dont work for non-users (dont know how to do this)
- flood control dont work for non-users (easy to set up if needed)
- mails from non-users will have the email adress instead of an URL to the profile
- for non-users watchdog will show the given name instead of the users name

Now the code:

// $Id: contact.module,v 1.6.2.2 2005-08-17 00:56:13 unconed Exp $

/**
 * @file
 * Enables the use of personal contact forms.
 */

// Users are not allowed to send more than x mails/hour:
define('CONTACT_HOURLY_THRESHOLD', 3);

/**
 * Implementation of hook_help().
 */
function contact_help($section) {
  switch ($section) {
    case 'admin/modules#description':
      return t('Enables the use of personal contact forms.');
  }
}

/**
 * Implementation of hook_menu().
 */
function contact_menu($may_cache) {
  global $user;
  $items = array();

  if (!$may_cache) {
    if (arg(0) == 'user' && is_numeric(arg(1))) {
      $items[] = array('path' => "user/". arg(1) ."/contact", 'title' => t('contact'),
        'callback' => 'contact_mail_user', 'type' => MENU_LOCAL_TASK, 'weight' => 2);
    }
  }

  return $items;
}

/**
 * Implementation of hook_user().
 *
 * Provides signature customization for the user's comments.
 */
function contact_user($type, $edit, &$user, $category = NULL) {
  if ($type == 'form' && $category == 'account') {
    return array(array('title' => t('Contact settings'), 'data' => form_checkbox(t('Personal contact form'), 'contact', 1, $edit['contact'], t('Allow other users to contact you by e-mail via <a href="%url">your personal contact form</a>. Note that your e-mail address is not made public and that privileged users such as site administrators are able to contact you even if you choose not to enable this feature.', array('%url' => url("user/$user->uid/contact")))), 'weight' => 2));
  }
  if ($type == 'validate') {
    return array('contact' => $edit['contact']);
  }
}

function contact_mail_user() {
  global $user;

  if ($account = user_load(array('uid' => arg(1), 'status' => 1))) {
    if (!$account->contact && !user_access('administer users')) {
      $output = t('%name is not accepting e-mails.', array('%name' => $account->name));
    }
    /*
    else if (!$user->uid) {
      $output = t('Please <a href="%login">login</a> or <a href="%register">register</a> to send %name a message.', array('%login' => url('user/login'), '%register' => url('user/register'), '%name' => $account->name));
    }
    */    
    else if (!valid_email_address($user->mail) && $user->uid) {
      $output = t('You need to provide a valid e-mail address to contact other users. Please edit your <a href="%url">user information</a>.', array('%url' => url("user/$user->uid/edit")));
    }

    else if (!flood_is_allowed('contact', CONTACT_HOURLY_THRESHOLD) && $user->uid) {
      $output = t("You can't contact more than %number users per hour. Please try again later.", array('%number' => CONTACT_HOURLY_THRESHOLD));
    }
    else {
      $edit = $_POST['edit'];

      if ($edit) {
        // Validate the message:
        if (!$edit['email'] && !$user->uid) {
          form_set_error('email', t('You must enter a mail adress.'));
          form_set_error('name', t('You must enter your name.'));
        }
        if (!$edit['message']) {
          form_set_error('message', t('You must enter a message.'));
        }
        if (!$edit['subject']) {
          form_set_error('subject', t('You must enter a subject.'));
        }

        if (!form_get_errors()) {
          $mtpl = array();
          if (!$user->uid) {
            $mtpl['name']      = $edit['name'];
            $mtpl['name-url']  = $edit['email'];  
          }
          else {
            $mtpl['name']      = $user->name;
            $mtpl['name-url']  = url("user/$user->uid", NULL, NULL, TRUE); 
          }

          // Compose the body:
          $message[] = "$account->name,";
          $message[] = t("%name (%name-url) has sent you a message via your contact form (%form-url) at %site.", array('%name' => $mtpl['name'], '%name-url' => $mtpl['name-url'], '%form-url' => url($_GET['q'], NULL, NULL, TRUE), '%site' => variable_get('site_name', 'drupal')));
          $message[] = t("If you don't want to receive such e-mails, you can change your settings at %url.", array('%url' => url("user/$account->uid", NULL, NULL, TRUE)));
          $message[] = t('Message:');
          $message[] = $edit['message'];

          // Tidy up the body:
          foreach ($message as $key => $value) {
            $message[$key] = wordwrap($value);
          }

          // Prepare all fields:
          $to = $account->mail;
          if(!$user->uid)
            $from = $edit['email'];
          else
            $from = $user->mail;
          
          // Format the subject:
          $subject = '['. variable_get('site_name', 'drupal') .'] '. $edit['subject'];

          // Prepare the body:
          $body = implode("\n\n", $message);

          // Send the e-mail:
          user_mail($to, $subject, $body, "From: $from\nReply-to: $from\nX-Mailer: Drupal\nReturn-path: $from\nErrors-to: $from");

          // Log the operation:
          flood_register_event('contact');
          watchdog('mail', t('%name-from sent %name-to an e-mail.', array('%name-from' => $mtpl['name'], '%name-to' => $account->name)));

          // Set a status message:
          drupal_set_message(t('Your message has been sent.'));

          // Jump to the user's profile page:
          drupal_goto("user/$account->uid");
        }
      }
      else {
        $edit['mail'] = $user->mail;
      }
      
      $output  = '';
      
      // show input field for email only if user is not logged in
      if(!$user->uid){
        $output .= form_textfield(t('Name'), 'name', $edit['name'], 50, 50, NULL, NULL, TRUE);
        $output .= form_textfield(t('E-Mail'), 'email', $edit['email'], 50, 50, NULL, NULL, TRUE);
      }
      else {
        $output .= form_item(t('From'), $user->name .' &lt;'. $user->mail .'&gt;');
      }
      $output .= form_item(t('To'), $account->name);
      $output .= form_textfield(t('Subject'), 'subject', $edit['subject'], 50, 50, NULL, NULL, TRUE);
      $output .= form_textarea(t('Message'), 'message', $edit['message'], 70, 8, NULL, NULL, TRUE);
      $output .= form_submit(t('Send e-mail'));
      $output  = form($output);
    }

    print theme('page', $output, $account->name);
  }
  else {
    drupal_not_found();
  }
}

tostinni,

Sorry about that - I just didn't think. Having one of those days... will re-post in right place.

Patrick