Contact form on maintenance mode page

Question

I'm using Drupal 7 and I wanted users to be able to contact me via email whilst I'm still working on the website. So my plan was to use 'create a contact form', as I don't want to expose my email address.

However whenever I try to add an input element in the maintenance mode message it is completely ignored in the output. I think that this is because the message uses the filtered HTML file as I do have other bits of HTML the message that are rendering just fine, but I can't see any option to change which filter is used.

Is there a way to change the filter to full HTML or is there a better a option?

Answer 1

If you are comfortable with Custom coding, you can try following route

On your theme template.php implement template_preprocess_maintenace(), this will help you introducing new variables to maintenance page tpl file, something like below

function yourtheme_name_preprocess_maintenance_page(&$vars) {
  if (function_exists('_your_form_builder_funtion')) {
    $vars['your_custom_form'] = drupal_render(drupal_get_form('_your_form_builder_function'));
  }
}

Now copy the maintenance-page.tpl.php in your custom theme templates folder and on the template file, you can use the variable like any other being already used. So somewhere on your maintenance-page.tpl.php add following

  <div class="contact-form">
    <?php print $your_custom_form; ?>
  </div>