How to edit the copy of a template page

[neairheart]

Hello, for my website I need a page very similar to the contact us page that the template already provides so I figured that I would simply make a copy of that page and edit the copy to suit my needs. So I copied both the php and tlp files for the contact page and renamed them both and I did update the tlp file to reflect the name change of the php file. However when I edit this copied version it does not change no matter what I do to it. even if I delete the whole thing the page just appears as normal when I refresh.

[AffordableDomainsCanada]

contact.php is encoded so i dont know how this is possible, You are going to have to create a new page and then create a form..

 

http://docs.whmcs.com/Creating_Pages

[WHMCS Edward]

It is not possible to edit the contact.php page to use a different template file, but you can customise the contact.tpl template file directly. Another option if you need the default contact form and your custom one would be to look for a query string parameter inside the template, and based on that, render the form differently, for example:

 

{if $smarty.get.showform eq "quote"}
Quote form goes here
{else}
Default form goes here
{/if}

 

The Smarty docs on accessing request variables are here: http://www.smarty.net/docs/en/language.variables.smarty.tpl#language.variables.smarty.request

 

-Eddy