Displaying contact form under categories

Question

I am not much familiar with many feature of magento but I know that to display form, we can use the following in pages.

{{block type="core/template" name="contactForm" form_action="/contacts/index/post" template="contacts/form.phtml"}}

but I have a requirement that needs me to put it under categories, how can I use the same code under "custom layout update" or code it in my template.

Answer 1

for display in category layout update you can use below code , please try and let me know if its not working.

  <catalog_category_default>
  <reference name="content">
    <block type="core/template" name="contactForm" template="contacts/form.phtml" >
        <action method="setFormAction">
          <form_action>{{baseUrl}}"/contacts/index/post"</form_action>
        </action>
    </block> 
</reference>
</catalog_category_default> 

and also write same code for

  <catalog_category_layered>
  <reference name="content">
    <block type="core/template" name="contactForm" template="contacts/form.phtml" >
        <action method="setFormAction">
          <form_action>{{baseUrl}}"/contacts/index/post"</form_action>
        </action>
    </block> 
</reference>
</catalog_category_layered> 

If you are using in your cms page then

Change your cms page like this

 {{block type="core/template" name="contactForm"  template="contacts/form.phtml"}}

and open your contacts/form.phtml file and change your action method like this

  action = '<?php echo Mage::getBaseUrl();?>contacts/index/post '