Contact form in CMS page not working

[TWSdesign]

Hello,

I've set up a CMS page for a contact form using the following code:

{{block type="core/template" name="contactForm" form_action="/contacts/index/post" template="contacts/form.phtml"}}

But the form just returns with 

Fatal error: Call to a member function setFormAction() on a non-object in /var/www/html/app/code/core/Mage/Contacts/controllers/IndexController.php on line 55

Can anyone suggest a fix please?

Thanks

kym

[Aitoc]

After a post is submitted, this contact form redirects to "contacts/index". it looks like your contacts page (url "contacts/index") is missing a block with the name "contactForm". 

Make sure you have a layout xml file with <contacts_index_index>. By default, it's located in a file by the name of contacts.xml, try to find the file in app/design/[your_package]/[your_theme]/layout/contacts.xml

As a minimum it must contain:

<contacts_index_index translate="label">
        <reference name="content">
            <block type="core/template" name="contactForm" template="contacts/form.phtml"/>
        </reference>
    </contacts_index_index>

If this doesn't work, try pasting this code to another layout, for example to page.xml 

[TWSdesign]

Hello and thank you for replying.

I've check the contacts.xml and it seems to have the code you mentioned. I've pasted it below... am I missing something? 

-->
<layout version="0.1.0">
<default>
<reference name="footer_links">
<action method="addLink" translate="label title" module="contacts" ifconfig="contacts/contacts/enabled"><label>Contact Us</label><url>contacts</url><title>How To Contact Us/title><prepare>true</prepare></action>
</reference>
</default>

<contacts_index_index translate="label">
<label>Contact Us Form</label>
<reference name="head">
<action method="setTitle" translate="title" module="contacts"><title>Contact Form</title></action>
</reference>
<reference name="root">
<action method="setTemplate"><template>page/2columns-right.phtml</template></action>
<action method="setHeaderTitle" translate="title" module="contacts"><title>Contact Form</title></action>
</reference>
<reference name="content">
<block type="core/template" name="contactForm" template="contacts/form.phtml"/>
<block type="cms/block" name="contact-text-add">
<action method="setBlockId"><block_id>contact-text</block_id></action>
</block>
</reference>
</contacts_index_index>
</layout>

[Aitoc]

There's an error in the xml code. 

 In

<title>How To Contact Us/title>
you're missing an "<". 

It has to be to be:
<title>How To Contact Us</title>

This error ruins the entire xml file.

Here is a correctly formatted file for you:

<layout version="0.1.0">
    <default>
        <reference name="footer_links">
            <action method="addLink" translate="label title" module="contacts" ifconfig="contacts/contacts/enabled">
                <label>Contact Us</label>
                <url>contacts</url>
                <title>How To Contact Us</title>
                <prepare>true</prepare>
            </action>
        </reference>
    </default>
    <contacts_index_index translate="label">
        <label>Contact Us Form</label>
        <reference name="head">
            <action method="setTitle" translate="title" module="contacts">
                <title>Contact Form</title>
            </action>
        </reference>
        <reference name="root">
            <action method="setTemplate">
                <template>page/2columns-right.phtml</template>
            </action>
            <action method="setHeaderTitle" translate="title" module="contacts">
                <title>Contact Form</title>
            </action>
        </reference>
        <reference name="content">
            <block type="core/template" name="contactForm" template="contacts/form.phtml"/>
            <block type="cms/block" name="contact-text-add">
                <action method="setBlockId">
                    <block_id>contact-text</block_id>
                </action>
            </block>
        </reference>
    </contacts_index_index>
</layout>

[TWSdesign]

I'm an idiot! Shoudl of spotted that! Thank you, you're a super star!

[TWSdesign]

Hi again,

it's still workign alot better, but it's now returning this error. 

“Unable to submit your request. Please, try again later”

Any ideas? 

[Theis Corfixen]

Hi @TWSdesign

This can be many things, and unfurtuanlly this is one of the few places where Magento actually doesn't log the exceptions, properly to prevent saving posted data &colon;-).

Check around iline 117, in the catched exception in the file:

app/code/core/Mage/Contacts/controllers/IndexController.php

This hopefully this will help you :-)

[TWSdesign]

Hi Theis,

Thank you for your reply.

I've had a look at the line in that php file, but to be honest I'm not 100% of what I'm looking for!

I've pasted it below. Please let me knwo if you stop anything.

THANK YOU

class Mage_Contacts_IndexController extends Mage_Core_Controller_Front_Action
{

const XML_PATH_EMAIL_RECIPIENT = 'contacts/email/recipient_email';
const XML_PATH_EMAIL_SENDER = 'contacts/email/sender_email_identity';
const XML_PATH_EMAIL_TEMPLATE = 'contacts/email/email_template';
const XML_PATH_ENABLED = 'contacts/contacts/enabled';

public function preDispatch()
{
parent:reDispatch();

if( !Mage::getStoreConfigFlag(self::XML_PATH_ENABLED) ) {
$this->norouteAction();
}
}

public function indexAction()
{
$this->loadLayout();
$this->getLayout()->getBlock('contactForm')
->setFormAction( Mage::getUrl('*/*/post') );

$this->_initLayoutMessages('customer/session');
$this->_initLayoutMessages('catalog/session');
$this->renderLayout();
}

public function postAction()
{
$post = $this->getRequest()->getPost();
if ( $post ) {
$translate = Mage::getSingleton('core/translate');
/* @var $translate Mage_Core_Model_Translate */
$translate->setTranslateInline(false);
try {
$postObject = new Varien_Object();
$postObject->setData($post);

$error = false;

if (!Zend_Validate::is(trim($post['name']) , 'NotEmpty')) {
$error = true;
}

if (!Zend_Validate::is(trim($post['comment']) , 'NotEmpty')) {
$error = true;
}

if (!Zend_Validate::is(trim($post['email']), 'EmailAddress')) {
$error = true;
}

if (Zend_Validate::is(trim($post['hideit']), 'NotEmpty')) {
$error = true;
}

if ($error) {
throw new Exception();
}
$mailTemplate = Mage::getModel('core/email_template');
/* @var $mailTemplate Mage_Core_Model_Email_Template */
$mailTemplate->setDesignConfig(array('area' => 'frontend'))
->setReplyTo($post['email'])
->sendTransactional(
Mage::getStoreConfig(self::XML_PATH_EMAIL_TEMPLATE),
Mage::getStoreConfig(self::XML_PATH_EMAIL_SENDER),
Mage::getStoreConfig(self::XML_PATH_EMAIL_RECIPIENT),
null,
array('data' => $postObject)
);

if (!$mailTemplate->getSentSuccess()) {
throw new Exception();
}

$translate->setTranslateInline(true);

Mage::getSingleton('customer/session')->addSuccess(Mage::helper('contacts')->__('Your inquiry was submitted and will be responded to as soon as possible. Thank you for contacting us.'));
$this->_redirect('*/*/');

return;
} catch (Exception $e) {
$translate->setTranslateInline(true);

Mage::getSingleton('customer/session')->addError(Mage::helper('contacts')->__('Unable to submit your request. Please, try again later'));
$this->_redirect('*/*/');
return;
}

} else {
$this->_redirect('*/*/');
}
}

}

[Theis Corfixen]

Hi @TWSdesign

The easiest way for you to debug this without any tools for it would be to add a little piece of code the line:

Mage::getSingleton('customer/session')->addError(Mage::helper('contacts')->__('Unable to submit your request. Please, try again later'));

The code should be as follows:

echo '<pre>';
echo $e;
echo '</pre>';
exit;

This will print the exact location where the exception happens. Let me know what you find :-)

[DevTechLeadz]

I also have an issue with the contact form,when I submit the form its show a success message but emails not arrives. I have tested the email addresses they are setup correctly but still no luck to receive the emails:

    HERE is the code from my CMS page:

    {{block type="core/template" name="contactForm" form_action="http://quickpro.nextmp.net/index.php/contacts/index/post/" template="contacts/form.phtml"}}