The default theme for Ghost-Form Mailer, which allows sending a contact form with Ghost’ internal Node Mailer module.

With Ghost-Form Mailer and this theme you are able create a contact form without any third party service! Therefore the core code of the Ghost platform needed some minor changes and the basic theme, too!

To understand the changes in the big view head over to the Ghost-Form Mailer repository and start reading.

Hopefully you have already read the Code Changes of the Ghost-Form Mailer repository. Otherwise please go back and read these first.

To keep the code untouched as possible, I tried to work modular.

Accordingly the principle of modularity I created the contact form as an partial, so you can find it under /partials/contactform.hbs. It is pretty basic and straight forward. There are four input fields for name, email, subject and the final message. When you’ll hit the submit button the function handleContactForm() will be executed.

The big advantage of the contact form as a partial is that you can place it everywhere. In this case I added it in the index.hbs just right under the post loop. Take a look:

{{! The main content area on the homepage }}
<main id="content" class="content" role="main">

    {{! The tag below includes the post loop - partials/loop.hbs }}
    {{> "loop"}}
    {{! The following includes the contact form - partials/contactForm.hbs}}
    {{> "contactform"}}

</main>

This javascript file only contains a function with the same name, which will be executed when the user hits the submit button. To get it working, you’ll need to include this function in your own main.js (or however you call it) or add it in the default.hbs to the other javascript files for Casper before the body closing tag like this:

{{! The main JavaScript file for Casper }}
<script type="text/javascript" src="{{asset "js/jquery.fitvids.js"}}"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="{{asset "js/index.js"}}"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="{{asset "js/handleContactForm.js"}}"></script>

The script creates an object from the input values and sends it to the route defined in the variable postToRoute

Attention: the value of variable postToRoute is set to fit the development environment. Please change this if you head over to production.

After getting a responds from the server it replaces the contact form with a message about the success or failure.

Please keep in mind: if you want to change the contact form, like adding or removing input fields, you’ll need to make according changes to the following files:

Theme files:

• `/partials/contactForm.hbs/``
• /assets/js/handleContactForm.js

Core files:

• /core/server/controllers/frontend.js

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