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Revision as of 07:48, 15 September 2008

Problem

How to write a custom control that provides you the Email functionality for example a small contact us control using the CommerceBuilder classes.

Solution

This tutorial will guide you how to create a feedback or contact control for your AbleCommerce powered store. The main purpose is to utilize the AbleCommerce CommerceBuilder API for utilizing the AbleCommerce configured SMTP settings.

Let's start by first creating a ContactUs.ascx file in Website/ConLib/ folder. It would be better to construct this feedback form as a ConLib user control so that it can be used any where on the store side.

After creating the file now copy and paste the following code into the ContactUs.ascx file. 


<%@ Control Language="C#" ClassName="ContactUs" %>

<script runat="server">
    
    private string _sendTo;
    
    public string SendTo 
    {
        get { return _sendTo; }
        set { _sendTo = value; }
    }

    protected void SendButton_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
    {
        Store store = Token.Instance.Store;
        StoreSettingCollection settings = store.Settings;
        System.Net.Mail.MailMessage mailMessage = new System.Net.Mail.MailMessage();
        
        if (String.IsNullOrEmpty(SendTo))
            mailMessage.To.Add(settings.DefaultEmailAddress);
        else
            mailMessage.To.Add(SendTo);
        mailMessage.From = new System.Net.Mail.MailAddress(Email.Text);
        mailMessage.Subject = "Feedback";
        mailMessage.Body += "Name: "+Name.Text+Environment.NewLine;
        mailMessage.Body += "Email: " + Email.Text + Environment.NewLine;
        mailMessage.Body += "Comment: "+Environment.NewLine+Comment.Text;
        mailMessage.BodyEncoding = System.Text.Encoding.UTF8;
        mailMessage.IsBodyHtml = false;
        mailMessage.Priority = System.Net.Mail.MailPriority.High;
        SmtpSettings smtpSettings = SmtpSettings.DefaultSettings;
        
        try
        {
            MessageLabel.Text = "Message Sent";
            MessageLabel.CssClass = "goodCondition";
            EmailClient.Send(mailMessage);
        }
        catch (Exception exp)
        {
            MessageLabel.Text = exp.Message;
            MessageLabel.CssClass = "errorCondition";
        }

    }
</script>

<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="inputForm">
    <tr>
        <th style="text-align:right;padding-right:3px;">
            Name</th>
        <td>
            <asp:TextBox ID="Name" runat="server" ValidationGroup="ContactUs"></asp:TextBox>
            <asp:RequiredFieldValidator ID="RequiredFieldValidator1" runat="server" ControlToValidate="Name"
                        ErrorMessage="Name is Required." ToolTip="Email Address is Required." 
                        Display="Static" Text="*" ValidationGroup="ContactUs">*</asp:RequiredFieldValidator>
            </td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
        <th style="text-align:right;padding-right:3px;">
            Email</th>
        <td>
            <asp:TextBox ID="Email" runat="server" ValidationGroup="ContactUs"></asp:TextBox>
            <asp:RequiredFieldValidator ID="EmailRequired" runat="server" ControlToValidate="Email"
                        ErrorMessage="Email Address is Required." ToolTip="Email Address is Required." 
                        Display="Static" Text="*" ValidationGroup="ContactUs">*</asp:RequiredFieldValidator>
                    <asp:RegularExpressionValidator ID="EmailValidator" runat="server" Display="Static" 
                        ControlToValidate="Email" ValidationExpression="\S+@\S+\.\S+" ErrorMessage="The email address is not properly formatted." 
                        Text="*" ValidationGroup="ContactUs"></asp:RegularExpressionValidator>
            </td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
        <th style="text-align:right;padding-right:3px;">
            Comment</th>
        <td>
            <asp:TextBox ID="Comment" runat="server" TextMode="MultiLine" ValidationGroup="ContactUs"></asp:TextBox>
            <asp:RequiredFieldValidator ID="RequiredFieldValidator2" runat="server" ControlToValidate="Comment"
                        ErrorMessage="Comment is Required." ToolTip="Email Address is Required." 
                        Display="Static" Text="*" ValidationGroup="ContactUs">*</asp:RequiredFieldValidator>
            </td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
        <td>
        </td>
        <td>
            <asp:Button ID="SendButton" runat="server" Text="Send" ValidationGroup="ContactUs" OnClick="SendButton_Click" /></td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
        <td></td>
        <td >
        <asp:Label ID="MessageLabel" runat="server"></asp:Label>
            <asp:ValidationSummary ID="ContactUsSummary" runat="server" ValidationGroup="ContactUs" />
        </td>
    </tr>
</table>

Now contact us control is available and you can use it just like any other conlib control across the store. 

[[ConLib:ContactUs SendTo="info@yourstore.com"]]

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