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Contact events are triggered during the contact form submitting process.

onValidateContact

Description

This event is triggered after a contact form has been submitted. An example use case would be validating a captcha. If you return a Exception object form submission will be terminated.

Parameters

• contact A reference to the person who will receive the form.
• data A reference to the data in the $_POST variable.

Return Value

None on success or Exception on failure.

Called in files

• components/com_contact/controller.php

onSubmitContact

Description

This event is triggered after a contact form has been submitted. You can use this for sending additional mails etc.

Parameters

• contact A reference to the person who will receive the form.
• data A reference to the data in the $_POST variable.

Return Value

None. Called in files

• components/com_contact/controller.php