Adding fields to Joomla 3.x contact component - joomla

Question

I need to add fields to the joomla 3.x com_contact component. I have found some instructions via google search but they are all for earlier versions (i.e. 2.5) of Joomla.
I know there are other components on the extensions.joomla.org site, but they are not what I want. And I am not looking for contact form components. I don't need to create forms.
I tried adapting the 2.5 modifications I found for 3.x but they don't work. At least I could not get them to work.
Here's the closest I found to doing this. But it is for joomla 2.5 and the steps appear to be different for 3.x based on my attempts to do this.
How to do it but apparently not for Joomla 3.x
Does anyone have step-by-step directions on how to do this?
Thanks!

Answer 1

If you want add fields to Joomla 2.5.x/3.x ‘Contact Form’ do these steps:
(I want to add ‘telephone’ field)
1- Go to *Joomla Directory > components > com_contact > models > forms*
Open ‘contact.xml’ file.
2- Add this code to the file between ‘fieldset’ element:
<field name="contact_telephone"
type="text"
id="contact-telephone"
size="30"
description="Your Number for Contact"
label="Phone"
filter="string"
required="true"/>
3- Go to *Joomla Directory > components > com_contact > views > contact > tmpl*
Open ‘default_form.php’ file.
4- Find this code in the file:
<legend><?php echo JText::_('COM_CONTACT_FORM_LABEL'); ?></legend>
and add this code between element:
<dt><?php echo $this->form->getLabel('contact_telephone'); ?></dt>
<dd><?php echo $this->form->getInput('contact_telephone'); ?></dd>
5- Go to *Joomla Directory > components > com_contact > controllers*
Open ‘contact.php’ file.
6- Find ‘_sendEmail’ function
[find this code: private function _sendEmail($data, $contact) ]
and add this code in the function:
$telephone = $data['contact_telephone'];
and then change this code
$body = $prefix."\n".$name.' <'.$email.'> '."\r\n\r\n".stripslashes($body);
to
$body = $prefix."\n".$name.' ('.$email.', '.$telephone.') '."\r\n\r\n".stripslashes($body);
I added the variable $telephone in that line.
Now, emails contain the telephone-number from the sender.
This worked perfectly for me!

Answer 2

On Step number 4 IF YOU`RE USING A TEMPLATE, then you go to:
*Joomla Directory > templates > your_template_folder_name > html > com_contact > contact > and ppen ‘default_form.php’ file.