How do I disable the personal contact form option in the user edit form?

Question

I am a Drupal beginner. When users create their account, they have the option to have a personal contact form. Where do I go to disable that? It's not in permissions. It's not a bad option, but I know it will confuse the hell out of my site's users. It may even scare some away!

Answer 1

Tested in Drupal 7.

Place the following in template.php of your theme. Change MYTHEME to your theme name.

function MYTHEME_form_alter(&$form, &$form_state, $form_id) {
  if ($form_id == 'user_profile_form') {
    $form['contact']['#access'] = FALSE;
  }
}

Notice that access is set to false, instead of being unset(), i.e. removed. That way we're not interfering with the flow of data.

Answer 2

If you visit admin/build/contact/settings in Drupal 6 or 5 you can untick "Enable personal contact form by default"

Answer 3

A personal contact form is not something you get by default in Drupal. There are modules that can do this, you have probably activated such a module. Check what modules you have activated at admin/build/settings.

If you want to disable this for regular users only you should instead check you permission settings.