GoldRoo Community - Adding a contact form for a listing

The GoldRoo local directory script creates a separate page for each listing.
This article explains how you can add a contact form to the listing's detail page which your visitors can use to contact the business or organization listed.
This GoldRoo modification is best used together with the plus2desc mod.

Add an optional contact form for those listings that like to be contacted by your visitors direct

Customize the contact form for each listing to suit the listing
The form has a built-in CAPTCHA

Follow these instructions to prepare for optional contact forms for your listings:

Download the listing-contact-form.zip file
Extract the ZIP file and upload the oops folder to the same folder on your server where the script is installed

Open t!wddetail.html in your favorite editor and look for this line in the <head> section:

Code:

<link rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml" title="Latest listings" href="feeds/rss.php" />

and replace with

Code:

<link rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml" title="Latest listings" href="feeds/rss.php" />
<script type="text/javascript" src="grcounter.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="grvalidator.js"></script>

Upload t!wddetail.html to your server

Adding a contact form to a listing:

In your administration panel, navigate to the listing, and click the title of the listing, this will take you to a page where you can edit the listing
Copy the content of oops/contact-listing.txt
Paste into the source of any of your description fields (but not the Entry Description field)
Look for LISTING-EMAIL in the code and replace with the listing's email address
Save your information

Other information

You might have to increase the maximum characters allowed in some of the description fields. See this support article for more info.

Adding a contact form for a listing

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