[TriLUG] Bending Joomla ( or me )

[Matthew Sayler]

On Jun 14, 2007, at 9:11 AM, Brian McCullough wrote:

> Folks,
>
> I am hoping that someone here can point me in the right direction.
>
> I am currently working on a Joomla website, and need to do something
> that I can't seem to do "the Joomla way."
>
> I am attempting to link from a "Content" page to a "Contact-type"  
> item.
> To be more explicit, I have a page on this site that contains some
> biographical information about a person, and want to place a link  
> on the
> page that says "Contact This Person" ( sort of a work directory ).
> Using the "Place a Link" button in my editor ( jCE ), I can create a
> mailto link, but that only gives a blank e-mail message.  I would
> _really_ like to be able to prompt the user for contact information as
> well as some other things.  To get the contact information, I _may_ be
> able to force them to be registered, but I don't think that that is  
> the
> complete solution.  Are there any extensions or even base modules that
> you can suggest to help me with this?

Can you not just copy the link from the contact page itself?

it should look something like

http://SITENAME/component/option,com_contact/Itemid,SOMENUMBER/

(At least that's what it looks like with Mambo)

Matt