How to add Inquiry Form to listing detail pages

Adding the inquiry form to detail pages

Inquiry button can be enabled in JReviews configuration:

The button will show up in listing info:

When someone clicks the button, the inquiry form will show up:

If you want to modify the layout of the Inquiry Form, modify this theme file:

• \com_jreviews\jreviews\views\themes\default\inquiries\create.thtml

The setting that determines who receives the inquiry e-mail is available in JReviews Cofiguration - Listings tab

Embedding the inquiry form directly to the page

To embed the inquiry form directly on the page instead of using the button and a popup, leave the inquiry setting disabled and instead add this code into the detail.thtml theme file where you want to show the form:

<?php echo $this->element("inquiry_widget");?>

If you allow guests to submit listings and have set the recipient of inquiries as the listing owner, then you need to add a conditional so the form doesn't show for listings submitted by guests:

<?php if ($listing['User']['user_id'] > 0):?>
   <?php echo $this->element("inquiry_widget");?>
<?php endif;?>

Important:If you choose this option, you need to disable the email cloaking plugin in Joomla or make sure it runs before the JReviews plugin.

Guest listing submissions and inquiries

If you allow guests to submit listings without registering and you select the email to listing owner option, inquiries will not be sent out for listings submitted by guest users.

This is because guests are not listing owners and cannot even edit their own listing. Only registered users are considered listing owners.

If you wanted to allow inquiries for guests, you could use a custom email field for this purpose.

How to add more input fields to the form

Adding a phone number text field

Open the theme file:

• \com_jreviews\jreviews\views\themes\default\inquiries\create.thtml

and replicate the code of one of the other fields.

For example, to add a Phone number field, add this code:

<div class="jrFieldDiv">
 
	<label for="jr-inquiry-phone"><?php __t("Your phone number");?>:<span class="jrIconRequired"></span>
 
	&nbsp;<span class="jr-validation-input jrValidation jrHidden"><?php __t("Please enter your phone number.");?></span>
 
	</label>
 
	<?php echo $Form->text('data[Inquiry][phone]',array('id'=>'jr-inquiry-phone','class'=>'jrText','size'=>50,'maxlength'=>100));?>
 
</div>

The form will now look like this:

You will need to modify the controller file for the new field to be included in the E-mail:

• \com_jreviews\jreviews\controllers\inquiry_controller.php

If your new field is required, add it into the Required fields array (line 44):

// Required fields
$inputs  = array('from_name','from_email','message','phone');

Adding a checkbox to the inquiry form

Example code for the theme file:

<div class="jrFieldDiv">
 
    <label for="checkboxExample"><?php __t("Checkbox Example");?>:</label>
 
    <?php echo $Form->checkbox('data[Inquiry][checkbox_example]',array('one'=>'One','two'=>'Two','three'=>'Three'),array('id'=>'jr-inquiry-checkbox_example'));?>
 
</div>

Example code for the controller file:

$mail->Body .= sprintf(__t("Checkbox value example: %s",true),implode(' * ',Sanitize::getVar($this->data['Inquiry'],'checkbox_example'))) . "<br />";

Adding a select list to the inquiry form

Example code for the theme file:

<div class="jrFieldDiv">
 
    <label for="selectExample"><?php __t("Select Example");?>:</label>
 
    <?php echo $Form->select('data[Inquiry][select_example]',array('one'=>'One','two'=>'Two','three'=>'Three'),''/* pre-selected val */,array('id'=>'jr-inquiry-select_example'));?>
 
</div>

Example code for the controller file:

$mail->Body .= sprintf(__t("Select value example: %s",true),Sanitize::getString($this->data['Inquiry'],'select_example')) . "<br />";

Adding a date field to the inquiry form

Example code for the theme file:

<div class="jrFieldDiv">
 
    <label for="dateExample"><?php __t("Date Example");?>:</label>
 
    <?php echo $Form->text('data[Inquiry][date_example]',array('id'=>'jr-inquiry-date_example','class'=>'jrDate jr-date','size'=>50));?>
 
</div>

Example code for the controller file:

$mail->Body .= sprintf(__t("Date value example: %s",true),Sanitize::getString($this->data['Inquiry'],'date_example')) . "<br />";