how can members contact admin

[simply-bulgaria]

i have logged in as a member on my forum ,but i can not see anywhere they can contact admin  ?? in  the boards

[Kenny01]

Go to the admin profile and send pm.

[Reflection]

Either that, or you could put a "contact admin" button somewhere if you want.

[N3RVE]

Simply-bulgaria, do you require any further support?

-[n3rve]

[Itchigotim]

This is what I want to do exactly. How can I make a "Contact Admin" button that sends a pm to the Admin (me)?

I should note that guests can't view profiles, and I want guests to have this permission.

[a10]

Maybe this one: http://custom.simplemachines.org/mods/index.php?mod=377

Won't send a pm, but an email, and using the forum's antispam questions. Been very useful here.

[Itchigotim]

Thanks, I'll check it out.

[Itchigotim]

Just tried it and it messed up my theme. It cut off the whole right side on my blocks. I uninstalled it and back to normal. (I'm going out so I cant leave the forum like this).

I am using a custom theme by the way. Dark Classic by Crip. I forgot to say, 2.07.

[Sir Osis of Liver]

Do you want to add a menu button, or just a text link somewhere?

[Itchigotim]

I tried to add a menu button at the top.

'Contact' => array(
            'title' => $txt['Contact'],
            'href' => $scripturl . '?action=help',
            'show' => true,
            'sub_buttons' => array(
            ),
         ),
         'search' => array(
            'title' => $txt['search'],
            'href' => $scripturl . '?action=search',
            'show' => $context['allow_search'],
            'sub_buttons' => array(
            ),
         ),

I copied code from another button in Sources/Subs.php

[Arantor]

Well, that's not going to work unless $txt['Contact'] is defined somewhere - but in any case that literally just has a menu button, it won't magically *do* anything.

Sounds like you kind of want the contact page mod...

[Sir Osis of Liver]

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'contact' => array(
'title' => 'Contact',
'href' => $scripturl . '?action=pm;sa=send;u=1',
'show' => true,
'sub_buttons' => array(
),
),



u=1 requires your user id, which may not be '1'.

[Arantor]

And won't work for guests.

[Sir Osis of Liver]

Does op want it to work for guests?  If so, would have to make it an email link.  Otherwise, don't show it to guests -

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'show' => !$user_info['is_guest'],



[Arantor]

Doesn't matter. Guests cannot under any circumstances send PMs.

[Sir Osis of Liver]

No, but if it's set up as a mailto it should work (haven't tried it).

[Arantor]

Your change specifically says to direct users to the PM system... doesn't matter what you do with it, trying to direct guests to the action=pm area is *guaranteed* to fail. Guests cannot ever have pm_send permission, it's one of the permissions explicitly enforced as cannot-be-given-to-guests.

[Sir Osis of Liver]

Topic title is 'how can members contact admin', not guests, so just don't show button to guests.  If you want guests to contact admin -

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'href' => 'mailto:[email protected]',



It werks gud!

[Itchigotim]

I know that's not going to magically do anything, but I didn't know what to do there.

I did try the contact page mod, and it cutoff the whole right side of my forum. i uninstalled it. I am thinking this  is for guests too, but I didn't know about the "no pm's" for guests. So site email it is I guess.

[Sir Osis of Liver]

Really isn't a better way to do it.  Even if you managed to diddle the code to allow guests to pm, wouldn't be any way for admin to reply.  Might be a good idea to create a mail forward to use there, if bots pick up the address and become a pia, you can always change it.

[Itchigotim]

Sorry for the late reply. The only reason I'm thinking of guests is if someone for some reason can't validate their account.

Thanks for that line- it's what I was looking for.