Contact Enhanced Documentation

Installation and basic features

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Most most users will be able to use the Automated Installation procedure:

Select Help → System Info from the drop-down menu on the Back-end of your Joomla! installation, then click on the Directory Permissions tab and make sure the all direcotries listed are writable.
Download the extension to your local machine as a zip or gz file package.
From the backend of your Joomla site (administration) select Extensions -> Install/Uninstall.
Click the Browse button and select the extension package on your local machine.
Click the Upload File & Install button.

Setting up Google Maps

A short video explaining security with Contact Enhanced

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Contact Enhanced uses the Google Maps (formerly Google Local) API to show a map based on the contact address.

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Contact Enhanced Plugin

The Contact Enhanced Plugin

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With the Contact Enhanced plugin you can display forms inside Joomla Content Articles, by adding the following tag:
{loadcontact ID}

You just have to change the ID for your contact id;

Please make sure that you have Contact Enhanced component installed correctly, otherwise the plugin will not work.

This screencast made by Dale covers the installation and usage of the Contact Enhanced plugin.

Component Parameters

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This Screencast sshows how to edit the Component Parameters. Remember that all Component Paramters are overridden by the Menu Item paramters. This feature allows you to have diffirent configurations for each form;

HTML Template System

How to use HTML Templates in Contact Enhanced

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HTML templates gives you great flexibility:

All sent emails can be delivered in HTML format;
Very customizable: You can choose which information to send;
You can have different templates for each contact, by changing the Menu Item parameters;
You can have separate templates for the Contact email and for the user copy;
Compatible with Joom!Fish.

Custom Values Overview

How to Access

Select Components → Contact Enhanced → Custom Values from the drop-down menu on the back-end of your Joomla! installation.

Description

The Custom Fields Manager screen allows you to create advanced Custom Fields using the SQL custom field type;

Details

Text: The text the user will see in the dropdown select list (required);
Value: The text that you will get in the email (required);

Type: You can enter any value to help you to keep things organized;
Category: You can use this field as you wish; You can enter a value or select one from the list; IMPORTANT: This is not necessary related to the Contact Enhanced Categories;

Edit Contact Overview

How to Access

Navigate to the Contact Enhanced Manager. To add a new Contact, press the "New" icon in the toolbar. To edit an existing Contact, click on the Contact's Name or click the Contact's checkbox and then click on the "Edit" icon in the toolbar.

Description

This is where you can add a Contact or edit an existing Contact. Contact Enhanced allow you to list people on your web site. They also allow users to send e-mails to those people.

Edit Custom Field Overview

Navigate to the Custom Fields Manager. To add a new Custom Field, press the "New" icon in the toolbar. To edit an existing Custom Field, click on the Custom Field's Name or click the Custom Field's checkbox and then click on the "Edit" icon in the toolbar.

Description

This is where you can add a Custom Field or edit an existing one. Contact Enhanced allows you to list Custom Fields on your web site's contact forms. Contact Enhaced has the ability to allow you (site administrator) to assign custom fields to a contact category. Therefore you have to create a category before you create a custom field. Your users will be able to fill that custom field when they submit the form.

Custom Field Manager Overview

How to access

Select Components → Contact Enhanced → Custom Fields from the drop-down menu on the back-end of your Joomla! installation.

Description

Contact Enhaced has the ability to allow you (site administrator) to assign custom fields to a contact category. Therefore you have to create a category before you create a custom field. Your users will be able to fill that custom field when they submit the form.

Contact Enhanced Manager Overview

Select Components → Contact Enhanced → Contacts from the drop-down menu on the back-end of your Joomla! installation.

Description

The Contact Enhanced Manager screen allows you to add contact information to your Joomla! site. You can enter information such as name, address, phone and e-mail. You can also link contacts to registered users. Afterwards, you can use the Menu Manager to create front-end links to the the contacts.

Optimize your PHP installation to handle large file uploads

Though PHP presents a very versatile and user friendly interface for handling file uploads, the default installation is not geared for working with files in excess of 2 Mega Bytes. This article will help you configure your PHP engine for handling such large file transfers.

The php.ini File

All the configuration settings for your PHP installation are contained in the php.ini file. Sometimes these setting might be overridden by directives in apache .htaccess files or even with in the scripts themselves. However you cannot over ride some of the settings that effect file uploads with .htaccess directives in this way. So let's just concentrate on the ini file. If you do not have access to your PHP configuration file might have to contact your web hoosting service provider.

To find the location of your php.ini file and the current values for the following settings that we need to modify, please go to:

- Select Help → System Info from the drop-down menu on the Back-end of your Joomla! installation, then select the PHP Information tab.