zem_contact is a plugin which extends Textpattern with a set of custom tags supporting email contact forms. Its original creator is Alex Shiels, now a member of Team Textpattern and one of Textpattern’s core developers. After a period of orphanage, zem_contact_reborn is now developed by various members of the Textpattern community and hosted at Stuart Butcher’s Bombsite.
Out of the box, zem_contact supports entry fields for various user supplied data such as e-mail addresses, single- and multiline text inputs, check boxes and radio buttons. But what, if you wanted to include other data elements stemming from an article’s properties or from other server data sources into the email as well? Imagine a situation where it would come handy to include the value of a custom article field into the message…
Applying lessons learned from a previous piece,
