Control Panel

Here are the instructions for each of the fields in the Control Panel :

• Use aiContactSafe css in backend
  Activate (checked) or deactivate the default CSS settings of aiContactSafe in backend.

• Highlight fields with errors
  Activate (checked) or deactivate the adding of a CSS class to the DIVs containing the fields with errors so they can be highlighted.

• Use SqueezeBox to display the feedback
  Activate (checked) or deactivate using the SqueezeBox javascript library to put the feedback from the form into a pop-up window centered on the screen.

• Keep the session alive when the form is displayed
  Activate (checked) or deactivate a javascript function that will keep the session alive while the form is displayed on the screen.

• Activate help
  Check this if you want to display help instructions in the backend.

• Date format
  Enter the date format that will be used by this component to display date fields. See http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.strftime.php for more information. This will only influence the date fields in the administrator page (like the date when a field was added or the date when a profile was last modified).

• Default status filter
  Select the default status by which the messages are filtered in the messages window

• Default Editbox Cols
  Set the number of columns that an editbox will use in the contact form. This is here only to influence the editbox without other CSS settings. It is recommended to use CSS as much as possible. Set the cols in the field parameters to overwrite this value.

• Default Editbox Rows
  Set the number of rows that an editbox will use in the contact form. This is here only to influence the editbox without other CSS settings. It is recommended to use CSS as much as possible. Set the rows in the field parameters to overwrite this value.

• Default name
  Set the default name aiContactSafe will use if the field "Field used as name" is left to "Default" value. Leave it empty to use the name of the site defined in Joomla.

• Default email
  Set the default email address aiContactSafe will use if the field "Field used as email" is left to "Default" value. Leave it empty to use the default email address of Joomla.

• Default subject
  Set the default subject aiContactSafe will use if the field "Field used as subject" is left to "Default" value. Left empty no subject will be added to the prefix of the subject defined in the profile.

• Activate spam control
  Activate (checked) or deactivate the spam control. This will activate the checking of the messages for specified words and in cases where they are found the message is not sent.

• Block messages with...
  Specify the words to check for in order to mark a message as spam. Separate the words with ";".

• Record blocked messages
  If you activate (checked) this, the messages marked as spam are not sent but are recorded into the database.

• Activate IP ban
  Activate (checked) or deactivate the IP ban. If you activate this, visitors from the specified IPs will not be able to access the contact form.

• IPs to ban
  Specify the IPs to ban. Separate the words with ";". You can use "*" to specify an entire class. For example, 123.123.*.* will ban all IPs starting with 123.123.

• Redirect banned IPs to
  Specify the page to redirect the blocked IPs. The home page is used by default.

• Ban IPs sending messages with blocked words
  Activate (checked) or deactivate the banning of the IPs sending messages with blocked words. If this is activated, whenever you get the number of messages with blocked words, specified in the next fields, the IP sending the message will be automatically banned.

• Maximum blocked messages before IP ban
  Set the number of messages with blocked words that will trigger the banning of the IP.

• Minutes to count the blocked messages
  Set the period of time to count the messages received with blocked words to ban the IP.

• Email to notify IP ban
  Set the email address where to send a notification when an IP is automatically blocked.

• Set the sender to the default Joomla email address
  Activate (checked) or deactivate the use of the default Joomla email address as the sender of the message. If activated, the email of the sender of the message will be set as the reply to address.

• Upload attachments folder
  Specify the folder where to upload the files attached to the message.

• Maximum attachments size (in bytes)
  Specify the maximum size of a file attachment in bytes.(1024 Bytes = 1KByte; 1048576 Bytes = 1 MByte; 5242880 Bytes = 5 MByte). The size must be equal to or smaller than the value in the parameter "upload_max_filesize" in your PHP.INI file. For more information, see this page: http://www.php.net/manual/en/ini.core.php#ini.upload-max-filesize.

• Allowed attachment types
  File types that can be attached. Use a comma (,) to separate them.

• Attach to email
  The attachment can either be sent only as a link to the file on the server in the message, or it can be attached to the message. Activate (checked) this field to attach the files to the message.

• Delete files after the message is sent
  Activate (checked) or deactivate the deletion of the attached files after the message is sent. This can be activated only if the attached files are sent with the message.

• Check language files
  Check if all the language packs distributed with aiContactSafe, that have the corresponding language installed in Joomla, are installed. This way, you'll not have to reinstall aiContactSafe after you have installed a language pack or copy the language pack by hand.

• Activate Artio
  In case you use Artio for SEO, you can activate/deactivate the Artio plugin of aiContactSafe.

• Activate Joom!Fish
  In case you use Joom!Fish for multilingual support, you can activate/deactivate the content elements of aiContactSafe.

• aiContactSafeModule
  This will check if you have the latest aiContactSafe module installed and offer the possibility to install it, upgrade it or uninstall it.

• aiContactSafeForm
  This will check if you have the latest aiContactSafeForm plugin installed and offer the possibility to install it, upgrade it or uninstall it.

• aiContactSafeLink
  This will check if you have the latest aiContactSafeLink plugin installed and offer the possibility to install it, upgrade it or uninstall it.

• Delete database tables
  This button will delete all the tables generated by this component into the database. It is here to allow you to completely uninstall the component.
  
  Warning !!!
  This will delete all the tables of aiContactSafe and you can't recover them after that.