Most notably I would replace Akismet and MyCaptcha with Mollom (http://drupal.org/project/mollom) which provides the same features as those two modules.

Drupal 6 also has an actions and triggers feature as part of core that makes the notify module no longer necessary.

Finally CCK has changed quite a bit from Drupal 5 to Drupal 6. I recommend checking out my video on Actions and Triggers (http://learnbythedrop.com/drop/39) as well as my newer posts on CCK and Views (http://learnbythedrop.com/cckandviews).

Thanks,
Dave

Drupal 6 has a number of enhancements that makes managing the site easier. I recommend that you check out my Drupal 6 overview at http://learnbythedrop.com/drop/4 if you haven’t done so already.

The process is a bit different in Drupal 6. You don’t need the Notify module to send you an email because D6 has something called Actions and Triggers that can inform you when a form is submitted.

Rob

How does one achieve a form such as this in 6.x?

1. Try the Node Go To module if you’re on Drupal 5. This module will re-direct the user to a specified page upon successful submission of the form. http://drupal.org/project/nodegoto

2. You can send the form results to an email address. Since the form is a node you need to use a module that provides email notifications when nodes are published. Try the new subscriptions module, which used to be called Notify. http://drupal.org/project/subscriptions

Rob

And can user get a confirmation email after form submission similarly as in drupal core contact.module.

All the way nice tutorial!

Alternatively, you can configure the navigation block (in admin/build/block) to only be visible by the admin. In the block configuration window you look for “Show block for specific roles:” and select the roles that you want to see the block.

When I build sites I usually create a special menu block for site users and only allow admins to see the standard navigation block.

When I set the access control to create contact form for anonymous users, the “Create Content” link shows up on the menu.

How can I prevent that without disabling it for administrators.

Note, I am a total noob.

Thanks very much for this tutorial. I found it very helpful and just sent you a paypal donation. I have one question:

What’s the best way to theme form submission pages? Usually I would just create a file such as page-node-566.tpl.php to theme a page whose nid is 566. I can’t seem to figure out if my form submission pages have nids. If so, I assume I can theme them as I would any other node.

I’ve read the suggestions on getting the current’ node’s nid here http://drupal.org/node/160921 but I’m not sure how/where to implement the suggested php code, or if it would even work in this instance. I’m using D5.6.

So, what’s the best way to figure out the nid of a form submission page, such as http://www.mysite.com/node/add/comments-form? And if you can get the nid, can these pages be themed just like any other nodes?

Thanks very much for any help.

The direct link to the modules page is http://yourdomain.com/?q=admin/build/modules.

Thanks,
Paul

When you create a new content type you are directing people to the node creation form for that content type. So you don’t have to create a view in order to get people to the contact form.

Once you have created the new content type that will act as the submission form, there are two things you’ll want to do. First, make sure you give anonymous visitors access to that content type. Second, you’ll want to create a menu item that links to the node creation form.

regards,

Dries

Likewise, if you create a contact form with a content type of ‘contact’, you should see the form at “node/add/contact”. Does that make sense?

I’ve made the “contact form” content type and a page view. The problem is that the page view shows the results of the form submission and not the form itself. What am I doing wrong?

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So once you have the view set up you link to that page by adding or editing a menu item. You can do that by going to ‘admin/build/menus’ or by clicking the administer link and choosing ‘Menus’ from the ‘Site Building’ section.

Once your in the menu section you click ‘Add item’ to add the link to the contact form to one of your menus.

I hope that helps.

thanks

Jon

What you can do is create a page that thanks the visitor for their submission. Then use the NodeGoTo module to direct the user to that page upon submission of your form.

http://drupal.org/project/NodeGoTo

First off, I’d like to say that your tutorial is fantastic! It’s just what I needed. Having said that I have a small problem with the method, and I hope someone can help out. I have used this method for this site: http://www.forensic-centre.com/drupal/
The problem is that when you submit the contact form you return to the front page, and the user doesn’t know what is going on. Is it possible to have a message like ["Contact Form Submission Processed!
You have successfully processed the contact form with all the required values.
Your question, query or request will be attended to as soon as possible.
Thank you for contacting us!"] when you submit the form. Maybe once you submit it redirects you to a page with hat text, or it shows a system message on the front page with that information. Can anyone help me out? Thanks in advanced.

Long story short, I ended up taking a whirlwind tour through several Drupal related sites; got sidetracked reading about something else (CCK related most likely); clicked on a link and found myself on the exact Drupal download page for the Email Field add on. As soon as I saw it and the other add ons listed I had one of those wonderful ‘light bulb’ moments and am happy to report that, thanks to your most helpful tutorial, I now have a functioning secure contact form on the site I’m working on!

There is one teeny, tiny, little problem I’d like remedy…do you know if there’s a way to eliminate the default word “Submit” from the form’s title?

Thanks again!

People can browse add-ons for the CCK module at http://drupal.org/project/Modules/category/88.

I’d like to thank you for taking the time to make these tutorials. As a Drupal novice I am finding them very helpful.

One thing I’m confused about, though, is that when you are creating the ‘contact_email’ field, you have field types that I don’t have–specifically the “E-mail” type. I thought perhaps I just needed to create a text field type and call it “E-mail” but then I noticed that after you created your field, your screen showed “E-mail link type: Mailto: Direct link”…so I scratched that idea.

That’s where you lost me. I don’t know how to get the same field types you’re showing (like link,five star rating, email, datestamp, etc.) so that I can continue with the video to make a secure contact form? Is there a tutorial I should watch before this one that explains this?

Thanks!