SUHAILS » Magento Commerce http://www.suhails.com Life online is really nothing more than the real life Wed, 12 Oct 2011 02:55:09 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Magento contact form styling and modification http://www.suhails.com/2010/05/magento-contact-form-styling-and-modification/ http://www.suhails.com/2010/05/magento-contact-form-styling-and-modification/#comments Sat, 15 May 2010 07:45:09 +0000 Suhail http://www.suhails.com/?p=318 Yes I came across another problem lately with magento and had a hard time finding the form.phtml file. The website wiki is truly a shit. Magento is a powerful tool that is very hard to use unless we know about it. All I wanted was to add some address and phone number about the contact form that automatically comes. I tried to get it by making a page and adding the contact form as a block and it also did not work.

Solution

  • Login into your FTP and look find form.phtml at app/design/frontend/base/default/template/contacts
  • Now open up that file and it is the block file for the contact form.
  • You can edit everything in there as you want.

A quick example of where to put extra information if needed.

Look for this code and you can place any HTML , CSS code inside there.

<div id=”messages_product_view”><?php echo $this->getMessagesBlock()->getGroupedHtml() ?></div>
<div>
<h1><?php echo Mage::helper(‘contacts’)->__(‘Contact Us’) ?></h1>

<!–EXTRA INFORMATION CAN BE PLACED HERE–>

</div>

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To get it working it is very simple.

Here is the code

<reference name=”content”>
<block type=”catalog/product_new” name=”home.catalog.product.new” alias=”product_homepage” template=”catalog/product/new.phtml”>
<action method=”setProductsCount”><count>8</count></action>
<action method=”addPriceBlockType”>
<type>bundle</type>
<block>bundle/catalog_product_price</block>
<template>bundle/catalog/product/price.phtml</template>
</action>
</block>
</reference>

OK where to put this in?

  • Go to CMS > Pages > Home (this is your homepage it might be in a different name)
  • Choose it and there will be 4 tabs on the left. Page Information, Content, Design and Meta Data. Choose Design
  • Now paste it in Layout update XML
  • Click Save page at the top right.

So will this put your items on the homepage yet? No!

  • Go to Catalog > Manage Products and choose any product.
  • In the General Tab on the right there will be 2 options at the bottom Set Product as New from Date & Set Product as New to Date
  • Put in the desired timeline when your products are new. I would suggest 1 week if you update frequently and 1 month if you update rarely.

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