aiContactSafe Control Panel

Ultima actualizare: Duminică, 25 Martie 2012 20:35

Scris de Alex Dobrin

Here are the instructions for each of the fields in the Control Panel :

Use aiContactSafe css in backend
Activate ( checked ) or deactivate the default CSS settings of aiContactSafe in backend.

Highlight fields with errors
Activate ( checked ) or deactivate adding of a CSS class to the DIVs containing the fields with errors so they can be highlighted.

Use SqueezeBox to display the feed-back
Activate ( checked ) or deactivate using the SqueezeBox javascript library to put the feed-back from the form into a pop-up window centered on the screen.

Keep session alive when form is displayed
Activate ( checked ) or deactivate a javascript function that will keep the session alive while the form is displayed on the screen.

Activate help
Check this if you want to display help instructions in backend.

Date format
Enter the date format that will be used by this component to display date fields. See this http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.strftime.php for more information. This will influence only the date fields in the administrator page ( like the date when a field was added, or the date when a profile was last modified ).

Default status filter
Select the default status by which the messages are filtered in the messages window

Default Editbox Cols
Set the number of colons that an editbox will use in the contact form. This is here only to influence the editbox without other CSS settings. It is recommended to use CSS as much as possible. Set the cols in the field parameters to overwrite this value.

Default Editbox Rows
Set the number of rows that an editbox will use in the contact form. This is here only to influence the editbox without other CSS settings. It is recommended to use CSS as much as possible. Set the rows in the field parameters to overwrite this value.

Default name
Set the default name aiContactSafe will use if the field "Field used as name" is left to "Default" value. Leave it empty to use the name of the site defined in Joomla.

Default email
Set the default email address aiContactSafe will use if the field "Field used as email" is left to "Default" value. Leave it empty to use the default email address of Joomla.

Default subject
Set the default subject aiContactSafe will use if the field "Field used as subject" is left to "Default" value. Left empty no subject will be added to the prefix of the subject defined in the profile.

Activate spam control
Activate ( checked ) or deactivate the spam control. This will activate the checking of the messages for specified words and in cases where they are found the message is not sent.

Block messages with
Specify the words to check for in order to mark a message as spam. Separate the words with ";".

Record blocked messages
If you activate ( checked ) this the messages marked as spam are not sent, but recorded into the database.

Activate IP ban
Activate ( checked ) or deactivate the IP ban. If you activate this the visitors from the specified IPs will not be able to access the contact form.

IPs to ban
Specify the IPs to ban. Separate the words with ";". You can use "*" to specify an entire class. For example 123.123.*.* will ban all IPs starting with 123.123.

Redirect banned IPs to
Specify the page where to redirect the blocked IPs. The home page is used by default.

Ban IPs sending messages with blocked words
Activate ( checked ) or deactivate the banning of the IPs sending messages with blocked words. If this is activated when ever you get the number of messages with blocked words, specified in the next fields, the IP sending the message will be automatically banned.

Maximum blocked messages before IP ban
Set the number of messages with blocked words that will trigger the banning of the IP.

Minutes to count the blocked messages
Set the period of time to count the messages received with blocked words in order to ban the IP.

Email to notify IP ban
Set the email address where to send a notification when an IP is automatically blocked.

Set the sender to the default Joomla email address
Activate ( checked ) or deactivate the use of the default Joomla email address as the sender of the message. If activated the email of the sender of the message will be set as the reply to address.

Upload attachments folder
Specify the folder where to upload the files attached to the message.

Maximum attachments size (in bytes)
Specify the maximum size of a file attachment in bytes.(1024 Bytes = 1KByte; 1048576 Bytes = 1 MByte; 5242880 Bytes = 5 MByte). The size must be equal to or smaller than the value in the parameter "upload_max_filesize" in your PHP.INI file. For more information see this page : http://www.php.net/manual/en/ini.core.php#ini.upload-max-filesize.

Allowed attachments types
File types that can be attached. Use a comma (,) to separate them.

Attach to email
The attachment can either be sent only as a link to the file on the server in the message or it can be attached to the message. Activate ( checked ) this field to attach the files to the message.

Delete files after the message is sent
Activate ( checked ) or deactivate the deletion of the attached files after the messsage is sent. This can be activated only if the attached files are sent with the message.

Check language files
Check if all the language packs distributed with aiContactSafe, that have the corresponding language installed in Joomla, are installed. This way you'll not have to reinstall aiContactSafe after you installed a language pack or copy the language pack by hand.

Activate Artio
In case you use Artio for SEO, you can activate/deactivate the Artio plugin of aiContactSafe.

Activate Joom!Fish
In case you use Joom!Fish for multilingual support, you can activate/deactivate the content elements of aiContactSafe.

aiContactSafeModule
This will check if you have the last aiContactSafe module installed and offer the possibility to install it, upgrade it or uninstall it.

aiContactSafeForm
This will check if you have the last aiContactSafeForm plugin installed and offer the possibility to install it, upgrade it or uninstall it.

aiContactSafeLink
This will check if you have the last aiContactSafeLink plugin installed and offer the possibility to install it, upgrade it or uninstall it.

Delete database tables
This button will delete all the tables generated by this component into the database. It is here to allow you to completely uninstall the component.
Warning !!!
This will delete all the tables of aiContactSafe and you can't recover them after that.