i have had a look on the forum but could not really find a solution. i want to use k2 as a directory component and as such the an item will basically be a listing on the directory. all seems to be fine except i can not find a solution for a visitor to contact the author about a specific item or listing in my case.

so i basically want a contact form to contact the author about a specific item - any clever boys... or girls out there that could assist me with this?

I am sure that the title of the item and other bits of information including the author can be autopopulated into a form.
Usually that form (from a form component) gets emailed to the site owner
I am not sure if the authors email address is exposed

after looking closer, the created_by in the item gets the joomla user id
you will have to expose the email address of the user by using
$user =& JFactory::getUser(id);
and
$user->email

thanks for the reply, i am however not much of a coder and can build forms with breezing forms using the quick mode but that is about that. is there no way that you could give more info on how to do this or maybe someone else out there that might already have a solution for this. I am sure if someone can get this feature to work, there would be a lot of use of k2 as directory component because of all the other great features it have.

i have found a commercial plugin that does this for me if someone else would like to know.
demo.webself.it/ext25/extensions/k2contact-revolution.html