Feature Request – Toggle contact form

Hi,
it is possible to make the contact form visible for logged in users only, enabling/disabling it on per Ad or user basis is not really possible (at least not without some more complex custom programming) i am afraid.

If you would like to show the contact options to logged in users only then you can add the code below in your theme functions.php file

add_action( "init", "my_toggle_contact", 1000 );
function my_toggle_contact() {
    if( get_current_user_id() == 0 ) {
        remove_action('adverts_tpl_single_bottom', 'adverts_single_contact_information');
        remove_action('adverts_tpl_single_bottom', 'adext_contact_form');
    } 
}

Hi Greg,

Yes I had seen the post on that. That’s why I posted it as a feature request.

Was worth a shot. Maybe something for a future version?

Thanks.

I am actually planning to refine how the contact options on Ad details page will show to give administrator and users more control over it, but right now i am afraid i cannot really tell when this feature will be available.

That’s promising to hear.

Maybe you could make it a paid addon to justify the extra work?

I look forward to seeing how it evolves.

I was just thinking about possible ways to achieve this, and thought about using custom roles.

Would it be possible to create a filter for my child functions.php file that would disable the form for a new role called “private” for instance?

I don’t know enough about coding to create my own filter, only using someone else’s.

Posting it here would also help others in the future.

Thanks.

I add myself to the discussion to ask for something. That of hiding the contacts to unregistered users is interesting, but I would like to insert a message saying “to view the seller’s contacts and you must log in or register.” Register or log in (with redirect link) ”

It can be done?

Getting closer, but can’t get it to work.

Take original test:

if( get_current_user_id() == 0 ) {

And need to add:

if( current_user_can( 'edit_posts' ) ) {

But don’t know how to word it without crashing the site.

Even simply replacing the test with my new one causes a crash.

Okay, I got it to work using an older function:

add_action( "init", "my_contact_form_init", 1000 );
function my_contact_form_init() {
if ( !current_user_can( 'edit_posts' ) ) {
        remove_all_actions( "adverts_tpl_single_bottom" );
    }
}

This only allows my “private” user, a contributor, to see the form.

Not sure that’s what I was setting out to do. It’s 2am here and my brain is fried.

Okay, in the cold light of day, this is not what I want. Instead of that user being the only one to see the form, I need it to be the only user that doesn’t display the form.

So a user-role based filter is not the answer.

It needs to be linked to the advert owner instead, so that guests or other logged in users cannot see the form for that owner.

Too hard for me ??

If you have a Custom Fields extension or can add a new field to [adverts_add] using Forms API and enabling/disabling the contact options on per Ad basis would work for you then you can use the code below to do that

add_action( "init", "my_contact_form_init", 1000 );
function my_contact_form_init() {
  if ( ! is_singular( 'advert' ) ) {
    return;
  }

  $post = get_post( get_the_ID() );

  if ( get_post_meta( $post->ID, "show_contact_options", true ) != "1" ) {
      remove_all_actions( "adverts_tpl_single_bottom" );
      add_action( "adverts_tpl_single_bottom", "contact_form_disabled_info" );
  } 
}
function contact_form_disabled_info() {
  echo "User disabled contact form options for this Ad.";
}

Additionally, if you have the Authors extension you can add the “show_contact_options” custom field to the Author form and then it will be possible to enable/disable the contact options on per user basis (instead of per Ad basis).

You would just need to change the line

$post = get_post( get_the_ID() );

to

$post_author_id = get_post_field( 'post_author', get_the_ID() );
$args = array(
  'author'         =>  $post_author_id,
  'post_type'      => 'advert-author',
  'posts_per_page' => 1,
  'post_status'    => array( 'publish', 'advert-hidden' ),
);
$author_page = get_posts( $args );
$post = $author_page[0];

Hi Greg,

I have done away with the contact form altogether and decided to assign advertisers an email forwarding address instead.

I then created a custom text field called Contact Email by following your documentation example.

That gives users an address to use, but is not clickable for spambots. It also means they can leave it empty if they don’t want to be contacted by email.

Thanks for your help and I hope your suggestions help other people.

Ok great, i am marking this thread as resolved then.