This is just a quick post to announce the recent start of one of my recent open source projects, Contacular. I have been building up Contacular’s overall feature set over the past week, having made the initial release on the 25th of January 2010. I now believe it is worthy of a post here, based on the large influx of recent visitors to the Contacular website.
So, what is Contacular?
Contacular is an open source contact form generator and processor written in PHP. It is designed to be used as either a complete PHP contact form solution, with full validation and e-mailing, or as an initial code base for web development to build upon. I’ve designed Contacular to be really simple to get up and running with and yet still be very expandable. The entire system is object-orientated and open source licensed.
A quick overview of the features of Contacular:
- Fully integrated contact form solution
- Simple generation of contact forms
- Many built-in Contacular contact form types
- Integrated reCAPTCHA human check / spam protection support
- Adoption of existing website styling (CSS) wherever possible
- Form field validation in all forms
- Automatic validation error reporting
- Advanced validation – e.g. checking submitted e-mail addresses are from real domains
- E-mailing form results to one or more recipients
- GPL licensed, open source, object orientated code base
- Tested in multiple browsers on multiple platforms
- Seamless upgrading to new versions – just download and replace the files
- Easily expandable
- More on the way…
Take a look at the how to use Contacular guide, and if you’re interested, go ahead and download Contacular. The latest version is always at the top, with that download page also containing the Contacular change log.
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