Magento contact form on CMS page shows 404 error - magento

Question

I added my contact form.phtml to a cms page with the following code:
{{block type="core/template" name="contactForm" form_action="/contacts/index/post" template="contacts/form.phtml"}}
However when I submit the contact form it will show a 404 error because the URL is being routed to www.domain.de/contacts/index/post, which doesn't exist because I use URL rewrites with store codes (de/en).
So the routing should go to www.domain.de/de/contacts/index/post
This only works when I alter the code as follows:
{{block type="core/template" name="contactForm" form_action="http://domain.de/de/contacts/index/post" template="contacts/form.phtml"}}
Since I am pretty new to magento I didn't find a solution and I dont know if this could be a problem with the .htaccess file.
Did anyone have the same issue and knows how to fix it?
Update:
Just to make sure if I did it correctly:
I created \app\code\local\MARG\ContactForm\etc\config.xml\ with the following content:
<config>
<modules>
<MARG_ContactForm>
<version>0.0.1</version>
</MARG_ContactForm>
</modules>
<global>
<blocks>
<ContactForm>
<class>MARG_ContactForm_Block</class>
</ContactForm>
<blocks>
</global>
</config>
Then I created app\code\local\MARG\ContactForm\Block\ContactForm.php with content:
class MARG_ContactForm_Block_ContactForm extends Mage_Core_Block_Template
{
protected function_construct()
{
$this ->setTemplate('contacts/form.phtml');
parent::_construct();
}
public function getFormAction()
{
return Mage::getUrl('*/*/post', array('_secure' => $this->getRequest()->isSecure()));
}
}
In app\etc\modules\MARG_ContactForm.xmlI put content:
<config>
<modules>
<MARG_ContactForm>
<active>true</active>
<codePool>local</codePool>
</MARG_ContactForm>
</modules>
</config>
In the CMS page I added {{block type="MARG/ContactForm" name="contactForm"}}
Is there something i overlooked?
Edit:
i have done it exactly as described and added {{block type="ContactForm/ContactForm" name="contactForm"}} to the CMS page. However it still shows a blank page the exception.log says
exception 'Mage_Core_Exception' with message 'Invalid block type: Mage_ContactForm_Block_ContactForm' in C:\dev\plain\magento\app\Mage.php:595 Stack trace:
#0 C:\dev\plain\magento\app\code\core\Mage\Core\Model\Layout.php(495): Mage::throwException('Invalid block t...')
#1 C:\dev\plain\magento\app\code\core\Mage\Core\Model\Layout.php(437): Mage_Core_Model_Layout->_getBlockInstance('ContactForm/Con...', Array)

Answer 1

The problem here is that the block is type Mage_Core_Block_Template which doesn't have a function to turn form action into a fully qualified URL. Normally that happens in Mage_Contacts_IndexController but of course your CMS page is not using that controller.
The solution is to make a block type which suits your purpose. I'll assume you know how to make a module and that it's name is "example".
class Example_Example_Block_Contacts extends Mage_Core_Block_Template
{
protected function _construct()
{
$this->setTemplate('contacts/form.phtml');
parent::_construct();
}
public function getFormAction()
{
// copied from Mage_Contacts_IndexController::indexAction()
return Mage::getUrl('contacts/index/post', array('_secure' => $this->getRequest()->isSecure()));
}
}
This makes your CMS page simpler too. It only needs to include:
{{block type="example/contacts" name="contactForm"}}