ALFContact
Version
2.0.3 (last update on Mar 19, 2012)
Rating
Compatibility
Votes
Favoured
99
License
GPLv2 or later
Non-Commercial
Type
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189592
Date Added
27 December 2007
Uses 1.6 Updater?
- Yes
The purpose of ALFcontact is to provide a contactform with enough features to make it usefull and appealing whithout making it overly complicated.
Basically the form gives you the option to send messages to different aliases based on your accesslevel, these aliases are defined in the administrator section, each with their own set of options.
E.g. create aliases for Sales or Billing or Webmaster, add a prefix, custom optional field, default subject and/or redirect as you like and you're set.
If the user isn't logged in it will show inputboxes for adding reply info, once they're logged in, it will automatically show their data.
Captcha security is included with a choice between reCaptcha and Bigo Captcha(J1.5) or captchas.net(J1.7), Bigo Captcha needs an additional plugin to be installed and activated.
Latest J!1.5 version: ALFContact v1.9.4
Latest J!1.7 version: ALFContact v2.0.3
ALFContact supports around 13 languages at the moment and the number is growing, check the website for the latest information.
PS. ALFContact works great on J! 2.5, but is not a real 2.5 component as it does not yet support joomla's new built-in Captcha plugins. I'm working on that, hoping that in the mean time new captcha plugins will become available.
I just needed exactly same solution. Unfortunately not many forums mention about this component.
Its a perfect contact us solution, easy to use and very nice layout. It looks anytime better than Joomla default contact form. It works great with Bigo Captcha. No hassles in installation and configuration. All very smooth. Thank you.
Its a perfect contact us solution, easy to use and very nice layout. It looks anytime better than Joomla default contact form. It works great with Bigo Captcha. No hassles in installation and configuration. All very smooth. Thank you.
I have been using chronoforms, and I love it's flexibility, but it's cumbersome and I'm never going to use all of it's capabilities.
ALFcontact is a perfect contact form for most websites. The ability to send contacts to different e-mail address is terrific. I didn't want to incorporate different forms for every department.
Suggestion: I hope you plan on offering more additional fields including checkboxes, radio buttons, pull down menus, etc. in the future.
ALFcontact is a perfect contact form for most websites. The ability to send contacts to different e-mail address is terrific. I didn't want to incorporate different forms for every department.
Suggestion: I hope you plan on offering more additional fields including checkboxes, radio buttons, pull down menus, etc. in the future.
This is a great little contact form, which does almost exactly what I want, but a few small changes would make it perfect:
- a way to specify different default recipients for forms on different parts of the site.
- the translations work nicely, except for the form title, and the default message text. Could you make your form Joomfish compatible?
unfortunately because our site is multilingual, and rather complicated, I probably won't be able to use your component, even though I love it.
- a way to specify different default recipients for forms on different parts of the site.
- the translations work nicely, except for the form title, and the default message text. Could you make your form Joomfish compatible?
unfortunately because our site is multilingual, and rather complicated, I probably won't be able to use your component, even though I love it.
Most perfect extensions are elegant solutions that get right to the point, do exactly and only, what is needed, and do it perfectly. Such extensions are easy to install, configure, and use and fit the bill perfectly. Such is the case, here.
Alf - you are to be congratulated and thanked, very much. You really hit the nail on this one. Cheers!
Alf - you are to be congratulated and thanked, very much. You really hit the nail on this one. Cheers!
This is a simple but superb component to get rid off the EXTRAS which Joomla 1.5's default contact component is having.
One suggestion:
I need to place the same form in different page's side menu. Its better to have a module to work like exactly what we have now, so that we can place it easily in each page as a module
One suggestion:
I need to place the same form in different page's side menu. Its better to have a module to work like exactly what we have now, so that we can place it easily in each page as a module
I just needed a quick and easy app for site visitors, this was perfect, installed simply and worked great.
Thanks!
Thanks!
1 of 1 people found this review helpful
Alfred has done an outstanding job in creating this contact form that gives your users the opportunity to select the person/department to contact. The message is then delivered to any email address entered in the backend. No email address is revealed in the generated HTML code. This and the fact that you can choose to enable CAPTCHA makes this the contact form that's loaded by default on any of my sites.
It works right out of the box, does what says, it's easy to customise it and if you have questions, Alfred will email you back, straight away.
I specially like the pulldown option for different reciepients.
Great component and support.
I specially like the pulldown option for different reciepients.
Great component and support.
Now this component has the CAPTCHA support, that's great! Thanks to the author!
1 of 1 people found this review helpful
This is a great little component. Installs straight out of the box, and does what it's suppose to. Incredibly simple - if you are looking for some complex "contact us" type of form, you are looking at the wrong one.
If, however, all your looking for is a simple yet effective way of letting your site visitors contact you, or various departments/sections of your company/organization/group, then this is the perfect one for you. I would consider this the next step up from the form included originally with Joomla.
Absolutely no complaints from a happy user.
If, however, all your looking for is a simple yet effective way of letting your site visitors contact you, or various departments/sections of your company/organization/group, then this is the perfect one for you. I would consider this the next step up from the form included originally with Joomla.
Absolutely no complaints from a happy user.
This is a very nice clean, easy to use contact form. I like the dropdown list to give visitors the choice of who to contact.
I will use it when I can add my own text above the form and choose where the thank you page goes to.
One last suggestion is to hide the actual email addresses when choosing "view source" in the browser.
I will use it when I can add my own text above the form and choose where the thank you page goes to.
One last suggestion is to hide the actual email addresses when choosing "view source" in the browser.
I've installed this on 2 test sites and both were extremely easy.
I do get installation errors due to missing languages, but it still works.
I would suggest some features:
1.) ability to set a default subject line.
2.) ability to set a re-direct page after form is submitted.
Besides all that, this is easy and straight forward. Just how I like it.
Good Job! :)
I do get installation errors due to missing languages, but it still works.
I would suggest some features:
1.) ability to set a default subject line.
2.) ability to set a re-direct page after form is submitted.
Besides all that, this is easy and straight forward. Just how I like it.
Good Job! :)
Owner's reply
I'm working on both options, pls contact me about the errors and I'll see about those too.
On my website I needed an alternative for the custom contact component in Joomla 1.5 because I needed a dropdown list to select the destination of the mail.
This component is ready for Joomla 1.5 and works like a charm without the legacy plugin activated.
Only nice thing would be to set a default selected item in the dropdown list
This component is ready for Joomla 1.5 and works like a charm without the legacy plugin activated.
Only nice thing would be to set a default selected item in the dropdown list
Owner's reply
Thanks,
I'll certainly have a look at your suggestion, keep 'm coming..
Greetings,
Afred
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