title: Adding fields to Joomla 3.x contact component
body: <p>I need to add fields to the joomla 3.x com_contact component. I have found some instructions via google search but they are all for earlier versions (i.e. 2.5) of Joomla.</p>
  
  <p>I know there are other components on the extensions.joomla.org site, but they are not what I want. And I am not looking for contact form components. I don't need to create forms.</p>
  
  <p>I tried adapting the 2.5 modifications I found for 3.x but they don't work. At least I could not get them to work.</p>
  
  <p>Here's the closest I found to doing this. But it is for joomla 2.5 and the steps appear to be different for 3.x based on my attempts to do this.</p>
  
  <p><a href="http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache%3ahttp://www.360php.net/tutorials/27-how-to-add-custom-field-to-any-joomla-component-and-display-it-on-the-backend-joomla-16-17-25.html" rel="nofollow">How to do it but apparently not for Joomla 3.x</a></p>
  
  <p>Does anyone have step-by-step directions on how to do this?</p>
  
  <p>Thanks!</p>