Custom contact form as php post script in Grav

Hello there,

I am trying to bring a custom-made contact form to graph. It is made in PHP:
it gets the data from the UI-form via post then fires off either errors or an email and a success message. Pretty plain.

🤔 Is there a way to make this run in/next to graph?
🤓 I tried to just drop it in a folder. I get a 403 (Forbidden)
🤯 Tried to do it as a plugin and found out: I don't know how.

Can someone help me with a hint?
TKS

@pamtbaau Oeps, maybe I should. Thanks! Will be back soon after checking this.

@pamtbaau I am struggeling. My markup of that form is quite unique. I cannot do in the frontmatter code since it does not allow to du custom divs and stuff. :-/

@joh, That's a pity...

There are a few options:

• There are common field attributes that can be added to each field, eg. to add 'classes' and 'outerclasses' with which you might fix a few things.

• An other option is to override a form template. You can copy a Twig file from the form plugin (/user/plugins/form/templates/...) into you own theme (/user/themes/mytheme/templates/forms/...) and design your own layout.

  Theme Quark has overridden a few fields that way.

• Wrap your custom form in a plugin. See tutorial and try again ;-).

• Maybe someone on the forum can help you out if you don't mind sharing the layout you require using pseudocode.

@pamtbaau: thank you a lot for making that list.

Maybe someone looks for a similar thing. So I quickly talk about my solution:
In the end it became a version with the initially suggested frontend forms. I paired it with a custom JS that does the frontend validation.