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Simple Email Form, by Doug Bierer - Joomla Extension Directory

Introduction

Contact forms

Basic email contact form which lets you define up to 8 configurable fields.


Summary of Features

Features

  • Supports Joomla 2.5 and 3.x
  • Eight configurable fields: you configure the labels and sizes and types
  • "From" and "Subject" fields appear automatically
  • "From" field is checked to make sure it's a valid email address (using regex, not a realtime check)
  • "Reply-To" header can be activated
  • Fields 1 - 8 can be set to "Active," "Required," "Hidden", or "Inactive" in the module configuration, as needed
  • Hidden fields will automatically appear in the email
  • Body of email message contains labels + user input data for active and hidden fields
  • Any of the 8 fields can be normal (text), textarea, radio buttons, checkboxes or dropdown (select)
  • You can configure a recipient of the submitted email form plus optional CC and/or BCC
  • Optional "Send Copy to Me" field or automatic user copy
  • You can set the space between the labels and the input fields
  • You can specify an optional redirect URL if the form is submitted successfully
  • Info in form fields can be either reset or retained after form submission
  • Includes a field to upload an email file attachment
  • Email attachments can be filtered by filename extension
  • Max length of each field can be set (thanks to Rui Castro Lobo!)
  • You can activate "Test Mode" to help you troubleshoot when installing

30+ languages supported, including: Afrikaans, Arabic, Belarusian, Bulgarian, Chinese, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hungarian, Italian, Latvian, Polish, Portugese (Brazilian), Russian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Thai, Turkish, Vietnamese

An optional CAPTCHA can be activated
- You can use Google's reCAPTCHA (Joomla's default) or any other standard CAPTCHA extension for Joomla

All configuration is done by module manager: no complicated components to install! All fields can be either normal (text), textarea, checkboxes, radio buttons, or select.

New in SEF 2.x - thanks to Andrew Caya and Martin Beaudry :

  • Client-side and server-side form validation for all field types,
  • Server-side filtering for all field types,
  • Integration with third-party CAPTCHA modules like Google's reCAPTCHA (Joomla's default),
  • Integration with Joomla's language settings,
  • Allow users to configure an automated reply email to those submitting the form,
  • A new Belarusian translation thanks to Yury (y.sapozhkov@gmail.com)
  • A new Slovenian translation thanks to Ervin (ervin.bizjak@gmail.com)
  • The possibility of overriding any translatable string with a custom one using Joomla's language overrides
  • The possibility of overriding and customizing completely the form's rendering

Project's Lead Developer:
Doug Bierer: https://unlikelysource.com/

Awesome Extension!



Posted on 17 September 2010
This extension is great. Especially if you need a simple contact form within an article. The site I installed it on has SEF turned on, and I had no problems at all. Very Happy. Thank you. Just a FYI, If you download the form and you're not sure what size to use for the fields. You can go to their website and use firebug to check out their specific lengths and heights on their demo. For the Textarea set the Rows to 4 and the Texarea Cols to 60 to get it to look like the demo text message area. Just a FYI.
I had a few issues with the initial configuration. If I had read the installation instructions thoroughly, this could have been avoided, as they are very specific about directories.



Emailed Doug about an issue, and received a reply within 26 min. Can't get that from some products you pay for. Highly recommend you try this.
I struggled to get this module working at first and so contacted the developer, Doug. Response arrived within the day - thank you Doug. A VERY VERY helpful person indeed. It turned out that my host server was running PHP4 and that PHP5 is needed for this module. (PHP4 is OLD!). Told my provider that this was not good enough, migrated to a newer server and BINGO! This module is brilliant and I now have two different simple EMail forms running on my site, both using CAPTCHA. Thank you Doug, top man!
This is a very nice contact module. I think it will be better if you replace the captcha system with recaptcha

Good but dangerous



Posted on 28 April 2010
This extension is good but for some people will become a very dangerous one. Why ? Because function file-put-contents uses resources that keep directories blocked and process will run until server restarts, if it ever restarts. That means resources eaten by some small applications.



I encountered the problem in their troubleshot section and it didn't let me to erase the directories I build for captchas.



I think the owner must work a littler more on this extension to make it popular an friendly.



Thanks.
Owner's reply: Version 1.0.3 addresses the issue of CAPTCHAs. The write function is now native Joomla 1.5 JFile::write() instead of "file_put_contents()". Thanks for the feedback Uraganu.

A MUST HAVE



Posted on 25 March 2010
This is a MUST HAVE if you want to have a simple email form instead of your email address pasted to your page to prevent spam!!! It was really simple minus a user error on 1 part which the Admin was a GREAT help with the correct fix. I will definitely be telling others about this extension. Thank you for the great add-on to my site!!!

Chad
I needed a simple e-mail form for my wifes Joomla web-site and installed this one. It worked directly without any issues what so ever. It is very easy to configure and have the options you would need.



Unfortunately it did not support other languages than English and I wanted it in Swedish so I realized I had to do that myself. The English strings where easy to find in the .php file and I translated the front-end strings to Swedish within a minute or so.



After doing the translation I posted a comment on the authors WEB-site and offered to send the translated module. Almost immediately I was asked to send my updates and the Swedish version is now available in the download area. He even credited the "Swedish version" to me - kind'a neat, don't you think?



Thanks Doug for a great extension - no need to look elsewhere.

/Lars

Simple Email Form

Version:
2.3.0
Developer:
Doug Bierer
Last updated:
Aug 16 2021
3 years ago
Date added:
Mar 09 2010
License:
GPLv2 or later
Type:
Free download
Includes:
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Compatibility:
J3
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