Contact module addition: choose the category via an argument in the URL

By Ben Feldman on 8 Aug 2007 at 00:14 UTC

Hi!

I'm not exactly proficient in Drupal's API, but I would like to add something onto the Contact module for my site (and if it works well, submit it for the next Drupal release) that allows the category to be preselected for the user via an argument passed from the URL.

So, like, mysite.com/contact/feedback would bring up the Contact form with the Feedback category already selected for the user. I don't want it to be locked as the Feedback category--the dropdown box should still be there--but Feedback should be preselected.

Could anyone point me in the right direction of how I would achieve this? I'm thinking the best way to do this would be to create a machine-readable name for the category and then have the argument go against the machine-readable names, sorta like the content-type module... but again, I'm not a Drupal programmer :p

Again, if anyone could point me in the right direction as to how to do this, I'd be very appreciative.

Thanks again.

Comments

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davesgonebananas commented 8 August 2007 at 00:45

The contact category is selected by an integer value (the machine readable form if you like). So you can hook the form and set the default category based on this value. You can then create path aliases for your friendly urls. Example: alias contact/feedback to contact/2

Create a custom module (or whatever you want to call it) and add the following code :

function custom_form_alter($form_id, &$form) {
	if (($form_id == 'contact_mail_page') && is_numeric(arg(1))) {
		$form['cid']['#default_value'] = arg(1);
	}
}