I want to create a Contact form that has more than 4 fields in it, save the data into the database and email the result to the siteowner.

From what I've experienced, the built in Contact Form will only display four fields.

I have created a new Data Object and Page Type to perform the function:

CanIUpgradeProcess.php

class CanIUpgradeProcess extends DataObject {
static $db = array(
    'EmailFrom' => 'Text',
'FirstName' => 'Text',
'Surname' => 'Text',
    'MobileNumUpg'=>'Text',
    'OptusContractNum'=>'Text',
    'PrefContactNum'=>'Text',
    'PrefContactTime1'=>'Text',
    'PrefContactTime2'=>'Text',
    'NewsLetter'=>'Text',
    'Referrer'=>'Text'       
);
}

Upgrade.php

class Upgrade extends Page {
   static $add_action = "an Upgrade form";
   static $icon = "cms/images/treeicons/task";

}

class Upgrade_Controller extends Page_Controller {
   
function CanIUpgrade() {
return new Form($this, "CanIUpgrade", new FieldSet(
// List the your fields here
new TextField("FirstName", "First Name"),
new TextField("Surname", "Last Name"),
new EmailField("EmailFrom", "Email address"),
new TextField("MobileNumUpg", "Number of Phone To Upgrade"),
new TextField("OptusContractNum", "Optus Contract # (If known)"),         
new TextField("PrefContactNum", "Preferred Contact Number"),
new DropdownField("ContactTime1", "Preferred Contact Time", $source = array(
         "1" => "9am to 12pm",
         "2" => "12pm to 3pm",
         "3" => "3pm to 6pm",
         "4" => "Anytime between 9am and 6pm"),
         $value="4"
         ),
new DropdownField("ContactTime2", "Alternate Contact Time", $source = array(
         "9am to 12pm" => "9am to 12pm",
         "12pm to 3pm" => "12pm to 3pm",
         "3pm to 6pm" => "3pm to 6pm",
         "Anytime" => "Anytime between 9am and 6pm"),
         $value="9am to 12pm"
         ),
new DropdownField("Newsletter", "Grab Updates?", $source = array(
         "Yes" => "You Bet! Yes Please!",
         "No" => "Not This Time Thanks"),
         $value="Yes"
         ),
         new HiddenField ("Referrer", "", $_SERVER['HTTP_REFERER'])                                 
), new FieldSet(
// List the action buttons here
new FormAction("process", "Can I Upgrade?")

), new RequiredFields(
// List the required fields here: "Email", "FirstName"
));
}   
   
   function process( $data, $form ) {
      $submittedForm = new CanIUpgradeProcess();   
      $form->saveInto($submittedForm);
      $submittedForm->write();

      $email = new Email('from@yourdomain.com', 'to@yourdomain.com', 'Can I Upgrade?');
      foreach($data as $key=>$value) {
       $body .= $key.' = '.$value."\r\n";
         //echo $body;
      }
      $email->setBody($body);
      $email->send();
      $url = "home";
    Director::redirect($url);      
   }
}

The form displays the way I want it to

The text fields: Firstname, Surname, EmailFrom, MobileNumUpg, OptusContractNum, Preferred ContactNum, Referrer are all written the to table correctly.

The dropdownfields and checkboxfieldset are not stored correctly - they are stored as null.

The form emails, but does not include data, just the field names.

It appears to redirect.

Two questions:
1. How do you write the contents of a submitted dropdownbox and checkboxfieldsets to the data object?

2. How do you email the results properly?

This example is based on the recipe found at http://docs.silverstripe.com/?id=recipes:forms

Hi Charly,

The field names in the dropdownfields are incorrect. they should be PrefContactTime1 and PrefContactTime2 instead of ContactTime1 and ContactTime2.