Question

I have added a basic contact form into the footer of an Opencart theme. E.g I have:

if (($this->request->server['REQUEST_METHOD'] == 'POST') &&
(isset($this->request->post['enquiry_submit'])) && $this->validate()) {

This works correctly as expected. The problem now is that if you are on a different page such as Customer Register and try to send the Footer contact form I get a load of Undefined notices.

Answer 1

Putting the code in the controller for the footer may seem like a good idea, however it does mean that you’re then going to end up trying to post to the footer itself to guarantee its available every page, which is a bit overkill and bad practice. The way to resolve this would be to either:

• Get the form to post to the contact us form (information/contact route). This has the benefit of being coded already though does mean that your customers will be redirected to that page
• Use AJAX to send to either the contact us form or a new controller made to handle this, and use JSON to send back the result of the contact submission. In my opinion this is the better option for your customers