django-contact-us-tools 0.1

A Django app to handle un-authenticated user enquiries.

A Django app to facilitate website ‘contact us’ functionality.

Detailed documentation is in the “docs” directory.

Quick start

1. Add "contact_us_tools" to your INSTALLED_APPS setting:

   INSTALLED_APPS = [
       # ...,
       "contact_us_tools",
   ]

2. Set up the necessary settings for sending emails. For example, if gmail is your chosen host:

   EMAIL_BACKEND = 'django.core.mail.backends.smtp.EmailBackend'
   EMAIL_HOST = 'smtp.gmail.com'
   EMAIL_USE_TLS = True
   EMAIL_PORT = 587
   EMAIL_HOST_USER = "[e-mail]"
   EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD = "exmample"

   See the django documentation https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/5.2/topics/email/#email-backends

3. Extend the BaseMessage model and set the BUSINESS_NAME and COPYRIGHT_YEAR attributes:

   from contact_us_tools.models import AbstractBaseMessage
   
   class Message(AbstractBaseMessage):
       BUSINESS_NAME = "My Business Name"
       COPYRIGHT_YEAR = 2025

   BUSINESS_NAME is your business or website name to be displayed in the automatic-reply email and COPYRIGHT_YEAR is the year to be displayed with the copyright notice in the email.

   For further configuration of the BaseMessage model, consult the docs.

4. Register the new model to your admit site:

   from django.contrib import admin
   admin.site.register(Message)

5. Create a new form or extend BaseContactUsForm and add the model attribute to the Meta class:

   from contact_us_tools.forms import BaseContactUsForm
   
   class ContactUsForm(BaseContactUsForm):
      class Meta(BaseContactUsForm.Meta):
         model = Message

6. Create a html template for the ‘contact us’ form. For example:

   <form action="" method="POST">
       {% csrf_token %}
   
       <legend>Contact Us</legend>
       <small>Got any questions? Fill out this form to reach out.</small>
   
       {{ form }}
   
       <button type="submit">Submit</button>
   </form>

7. Extend BaseContactUsView, making sure to overwrite form_class and template_name with the form and html template you just created, as well as supplying a success url:

   from django.urls import reverse
   from contact_us_tools.views import BaseContactUsView
   
   class ContactUsView(BaseContactUsView):
       form_class = ContactUsForm
       template_name = 'template_name'
   
       def get_success_url(self):
           return reverse('success_url_name')

   For further configuration of BaseContactUsView, consult the docs.

8. Add a URL pattern to handle the rendering of the form:

   urlpatterns = [
       # ...,
       path('contact-us', ContactUsView.as_view(), name='contact-us'),
   ]

9. Run python manage.py makemigrations then python manage.py migrate to create the models.

10. Start the development server and visit the relevant url to test the ‘contact us’ form.

11. Visit the admin site to view the resulting addition to the relevant database table.