mod_qlcontact - Documentation

I keep it short, in internet you can find many how-tos how to use com_contacts of J! core, e. g. http://www.siteground.com/tutorials/joomla25/joomla_contactus_page.htm;

you use mod_contact as follows

• go to components>contacts
  • create new contact with name, e-mail address, position, image if you like
  • save contact
• got to extensions>modules
  • create new mod_qlcontact
  • basic settings>display type: "Contact component"
  • basic settings>contact: Select you contact
  • dara setting> show data: "yes"
  • Data: Select data to be displayed, e. g. name, e-mail address etc.
  • assign it to menu items just as usual
  • save
• that's it!

By the way: "display type" is whether original contact data or user-linked contact is displayed.
With contact / user select, a user/contact is selected whose data is to be displayed.

Hope this works:-)

• Generate an overriding layout. Generate copies of all files that you can find in modules/mod_qlcontact/tmpl/...
• generate overriding folder
  
  • templates/yourTemplate/html/mod_qlcontact/
• Copy all .php-files into overriding template folder, e. g.:
  • templates/yourTemplate/html/mod_qlcontact/default.php
  • templates/yourTemplate/html/mod_qlcontact/default_data.php
  • ...
• Go to templates/yourTemplate/html/mod_qlcontact/default_form.php
  • Add your additional fields here in html.
  • Add verifications via html (attribute required="required", e. g. <input type="text" name="product" required="required" id="product" />)
  • Add verifications via Javascript (for devs who can code Javascript)
• A lot of testing until the e-mail and the data sent delivers the data you want;-)
• And: you're lucky*, that's it

*Fortunately mod_qlcontact send all post data given to it, no further coding needed, strike! Haven't tried it myself, but it should work fine anyway:-)

If you want to display a users contact data:

• users > users (only if you need a new user)
  
  • create a user
  • save
• components> contacts
  • create a contact, see above
  • select that very user in "linked user" param.
  • save
• got to extensions>modules
  • create new mod_qlcontact
  • basic settings>display type: "User component"
  • basic settings>user: Select user, whose contact data you wish to display
  • data setting> show data: "yes"
  • Data: Select data to be displayed, e. g. name, e-mail address etc.
  • assign it to menu items just as usual
  • save
• that's it!

By the way: "display type" is whether original contact data or user-linked contact is displayed.
With contact / user select, a user/contact is selected whose data is to be displayed.