Contact forms in Drupal

Have you ever gone to a website that has a “Contact us” page where a visitor can fill out a form? That is contact forms in Drupal. They give visitors to a site a means of communicating with those who run it. This could be someone who wants to inquire about hosting a party at a restaurant or leveraging services to remodel a house. It is very common for a website to offer more than just a phone number, especially given the ability to communicate digitally.

Basic information

The contact forms feature comes out of the box with Drupal in the Contact module. Forms are commonly exposed to end users that allow for engagement through the Drupal application.

The Contact module represents one of the more lightweight systems in Drupal. It is composed of an entity type, and contact forms, with bundles for each form. Form submissions represent instances of the entity. Given that it leverages entities, contact forms are fieldable, much like other structured...