Override Magento Contacts Controller

Question

I\'m trying to override Mage/Contacts/IndexController.php

I created a folder in local and created Mynamespace/CustomContacts/controllers/IndexCont

Answer 1

1. Best practices

Your config.xml file seems like this:

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<config>
    <modules>
        <Mynamespace_CustomContacts>
            <version>0.1.0</version>
        </Mynamespace_CustomContacts>
    </modules>
    <frontend>
        <routers>
            <contacts>
                <args>
                    <modules>
                        <Mynamespace_CustomContacts before="Mage_Contacts">Mynamespace_CustomContacts</Mynamespace_CustomContacts>
                    </modules>
                </args>
            </contacts>
        </routers>
    </frontend>
</config>

2. Bad practices

You can move your controller in app/local/Mage/Contacts/controllers/IndexController.php for a hard override.

And don't forget to enable your module in xml file in app/etc/modules directory

Answer 2

IndexController.php file ( local/your_company/your_block_name/controllers/

<?php
require_once Mage::getModuleDir('controllers','Mage_Contacts').DS.'IndexController.php';

class IGN_Siteblocks_IndexController extends Mage_Contacts_IndexController
{
    public function indexAction()
    {

    }
}

local/your_company/your_block_name/etc/config.xml

<contacts>
                <args>
                    <modules>
                        <siteblocks before="Mage_Contacts">IGN_Siteblocks</siteblocks>
                    </modules>
                </args>
            </contacts>

And Let`s go to create your sample code like this :

class IGN_Siteblocks_IndexController extends Mage_Contacts_IndexController
{
   public function createAction()
{
    return $this->_redirect('noroute');
}
}

Answer 3

Before getting to the answer I want to know have to defined your custom module in config.xml file.

I think that is missing here.

Add

<modules>
        <Mynamespace_CustomContacts>
            <version>1.0.0</version>
        </Mynamespace_CustomContacts>
    </modules>

after config node in config.xml file.

Also

<Mynamespace_CustomContacts before="Mage_Contacts">
    Mynamespace_CustomContacts
</Mynamespace_CustomContacts>`

it should be in small letters like below

<mynamespace_customcontacts before="Mage_Contacts">
     Mynamespace_CustomContacts
</mynamespace_customcontacts>`

Hope this will solve your problem.

Answer 4

Go through this, It overrides the IndexController.php from Mage_Contacts http://www.amitbera.com/how-to-override-a-controller-in-magento/