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An optional impressum page would be nice. I think it should be filled with any text within the admin panel und accessable via main menu. Have I posted this before? O:-)

What is an impressum page ?

I don't know about other countries in europe or overseas, but in Germany you are not allowed to have an internet page (also a forum) without an impressum. There must be contact informations listed: the full address, e-mail and (it's not totally clear) phone number of the person who's responsible for the page. The impressum must be easy to find and should not be hidden somewhere. Often there's a link in the footer.

Here's one:

http://elkarte-hilfe.de/impressum.html (http://elkarte-hilfe.de/impressum.html)

So the possibility to create a page linked in the footer or main menu with my own text would be really helpful.

If you want the contact page for all (guests and members), a simple code edit do that trick.
Find in sources/controllers/Register.controller.php

		if (!$user_info['is_guest'] || empty($modSettings['enable_contactform']) || $modSettings['enable_contactform'] == 'disabled')
			redirectexit();

replace with:

		if (empty($modSettings['enable_contactform']) || $modSettings['enable_contactform'] == 'disabled')
			redirectexit();

Greetings NetFlag

It's basically completely untested, so it may or may not working as expected.

This addons extends the contact page:

• showing it to everybody,
• giving the option to add custom text above the contact form (it supports markdown (http://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/syntax), not the normal bbc[1]Spoiler (click to show/hide)
  Code: [Select]

  #Impressum
  ##Pflichtangaben gemäß § 5 TMG
  
  Jörg Helfmann
  Frankfurter Str. 17
  63329 Egelsbach
  
  info ät elkarte-hilfe punkt de
  
  ##Inhaltlich verantwortlich gemäß § 55 Abs. 2 RStV
  
  Jörg Helfmann
  Frankfurter Str. 17
  63329 Egelsbach
  
  info ät elkarte-hilfe punkt de
  )
  
• you can style the resulting text from point 2 with css "starting" with the class extended_contact (so .extended_contact h2 or things like that).
  
  That should be all... did I already say it may be broken? :P

There are two errors in the package.
The installation has only worked after I added an "Extended" to the Contact.controller.php (->  ExtendedContact.controller.php) and on the page ExtendedContact.integrate.php was also an "Extended" missing.

I replaced there

		$actionArray['contact'] = array('Contact.controller.php', 'Contact_Controller', 'action_contact');

with

		$actionArray['contact'] = array('ExtendedContact.controller.php', 'Contact_Controller', 'action_contact');

After this the installation was successful and apparently all works fine now.

Oh, just one more thing.
Besides the input fields for "Message" and "E-Mail Address" another one for "Name" would be great.
How can I add such a field there?

EDIT :
Now the contact form just works when I'm logged in. Guests always will be forwarded to the index page, after klicking the contact button in the menu...

Try the one attached.

The main problem is not add the field, is just what would you use it for?
At the moment is still pretty much a draft, but if the one contacting you is a member of the forum it "will"^[1] show the name of the member, but if the one contacting you is a guest, you need the email address, and in the PM template, the "from" is pretty much the only place to show it "clearly", the only alternative would be to make up something like "name provided <emailaddress>" instead of just using the email. Yeah, but honestly I find it pretty odd that someone that spends time to write to you doesn't sign its own message. I usually do:
and a name field would just be another annoying field to fill up.

Anyway add it is not that much difficult.