add plugins to Contact form types, remove special-casing for 'personal' contact form type

Created on 6 May 2016, about 9 years ago

Updated 17 May 2025, 2 days ago

Contact forms are full of special handling for the personal form. And apart from the personal contact form, no special functionality can be added to contact forms: they're just plain forms.

Instead, we could add a new plugin type that provides custom functionality for a contact form. This would allow contrib modules to add new kinds of contact form, and remove a lot of the special case code from Contact.

We can probably do this in a backwards-compatible manner, as the special case code checks for the 'personal' bundle name a few times, and most of the time calls isPersonal() on the Drupal\contact\Entity\Message.

So isPersonal() could be changed to check the ID of the plugin, and return TRUE if it's the plugin that handles the personal contact form functionality. In essence, it becomes a backwards-compatibility wrapper.

✨ Feature request

Status

Postponed

Version

11.0 🔥

Component

contact.module

Created by

🇬🇧United Kingdom joachim

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🇳🇿New Zealand quietone
The Contact Module was approved for removal in 🌱 [Policy] Move Contact module to contrib Active .

This is Postponed. The status is set according to two policies. The Remove a core extension and move it to a contributed project → and the Extensions approved for removal → policies.

The deprecation work is in 📌 [meta] Tasks to deprecate the Contact module Active and the removal work in 📌 [12.x] [meta] Tasks to remove Contant module Active .

Contact will be moved to a contributed project after the Drupal 12.x branch is open.

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