Prestashop: Disable contact form

Question

I would like to disable the contact form in my prestashop installation but there is no plugin to do so. Any suggestions how to do that?

Answer 1

Depends what you mean by disabling contact form but here are few possibilities.

1. Modifying core contact controller (not recommended since you will lose custom code when updating Prestashop)

Open file controllers/front/ContactController.php and add this code inside the ContactControllerCode class.

public function init()
{
    Tools::redirect('pagenotfound'); // redirect contact page to 404 page
}

2. Overriding contact controller

Create a new file ContactController.php and place it in folder overrides/controllers/front/ and add the following code

class ContactController extends ContactControllerCore {
    public function init()
    {
        Tools::redirect('pagenotfound'); // redirect contact page to 404 page
    }
}

3. Create a small module

Create a new directory contactpagedisabler in folder modules and inside create a file contactpagedisabler.php and put this code in

class ContactPageDisabler extends Module 
{
    public function __construct() 
    {
        $this->name = 'contactpagedisabler';
        $this->tab = 'front_office_features';
        $this->version = '1.0';
        $this->author = 'whatever';

        parent::__construct();

        $this->displayName = $this->l('Contact page disabler');
        $this->description = $this->l('Disables contact page.');
    }

    public function install() 
    {
        return parent::install() && $this->registerHook('actionDispatcher');
    }

    // hook runs just after controller has been instantiated
    public function hookActionDispatcher($params) 
    {
        if ($params['controller_type'] === 1 && $params['controller_class'] === 'ContactController') {
            Tools::redirect('pagenotfound'); // redirect contact page to 404 page
        }
    }
}

And then install this module from backoffice.

2nd option is simplest and it doesn't interfere with core files.

3rd option is probably overkill for such a small thing however it doesn't require overriding and if you or store manager ever needs the contact page back he can just disable the module from backoffice. The module could also be expanded/modified with configuration page where you could for example get a list of all pages in store and let user decide which ones to enable/disable etc.

Update April 2018

Forget first two options and use third. Always use a module (if possible) when modifying your shop.