collective.contactauthor 1.0.0

A very simple customization for Plone author form, where anonymous user can send message to authors, with captcha protection

Introduction

A simple Plone customization for the “Contact the author” form.

Normally in Plone only authenticated member can send internal messages to the author. This product open the form also to anonymous users.

When anonymous try to contact an author, they must provide also an email address and a captcha protection value.

Form protection

The captcha protection is given by the collective.recaptcha product.

Security

Keep in mind that, even behind a robot/bot protection, this product open your site to anonymous message from the Web. It’s mainly targeted to intranet environment.

The given anonymous email can be unexistent (or the someone else ones).

Dependencies

This product has been tested on Plone 3.3 and Plone 4.2

Credits

Developed with the support of S. Anna Hospital, Ferrara; S. Anna Hospital supports the PloneGov initiative.

Authors

This product was developed by RedTurtle Technology team.

Changelog

1.0.0 (2012-11-12)

• Fixed Plone 4 compatibility [cekk]

0.1.1 (2011-04-05)

• italian translation fixes [keul]

• be more friendly is recaptcha is not configured [keul]

• if the used is not anonymous do not show the recaptcha field at all [keul]

0.1.0 (2011-03-03)

• Initial release