magento custom form on product page

Question

I'm new to Magento, and i need some conceptual guide and/or references. I need to create custom form that will be a part of product-info page (at it's bottom) and that will collect user input (email, size, color). Only some product will have this feature/form (it's up to admin). So, goal of this form will be to email store-admin about a product that is available in stock but not in wished size and/or color. Should i customize existing Contact us form or should i create fresh custom form in new module?
Form should submit data to admin via email along with name of the product.

If you accept, I can offer only email option. I haven't got much time to write admin section code to show sent it by customer! — Oğuz Çelikdemir
@Oğuz I'm currently trying to write code for custom email form, can you give me a hint how to get product Name so i could use it in email content or should i ask that in another question? — maljukan
you can use custom variables in email templates. Check admin > system menu. check this links Defining Transactional Variables or Transactional Emails — Oğuz Çelikdemir

Max Max · Accepted Answer · 2012-01-22T14:30:21

Sounds like you'll need a custom form. You'll need a new database table to store the data, a Model to represent the data, and a controller to post the form to at the very least. You'll probably want to add an attribute to Products which is a yes/no of whether to display the form. You'll also probably want to view the data, so you'll have to make pages in the admin site. Perhaps a grid of all answers and a page to view/edit a specific answer.

magento custom form on product page

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