Lithium contact app

Lithium contact is a simple contact form allowing users of your website to easily contact you via email.

Quick start guide

To get started using the contact app, follow these steps:

1. Install the blog app by adding 'lithium.contact' to INSTALLED_APPS.

2. Add the contact app’s URLs to your project’s urls.py:

   urlpatterns = patterns('',
           ...
           url(r'^contact/', include('lithium.contact.urls')),
           ...
   )
   

3. Add your email address to the MANAGERS section of settings.py:

   MANAGERS = (
           ('Kyle Fuller', 'inbox@kylefuller.co.uk'),
   )
   

Using your own templates

contact/contact_email.txt

This template is used to render the email before it is sent. The template context will contain the following:

• sender: The sender’s email address.
• subject: The sender’s subject.
• message: The sender’s message.
• recipients: This is a list of who the email is being sent to.

contact/contact_form.html

This template gets passed a django.forms.Form via the context form. This template should render the form, and display any validation errors if there were any.

Rendering a custom form

A complete form might look like:

<form action="{% url contact_form %}" method="post">
    {{ form.as_p }}
    <input type="submit" value="Submit" />
</form>

contact/contact_confirmation.html

This template shows a confirmation to the user that there message has been sent.