How to access contact us form fields value in php

Hi Victoria, Thanks for your answer. I assumed so much. Therefore I tried a simple solution, to create my own form using your Code Block element, the theme will render the form and I would capture the fields in my php upon submit.
Your Code Block element has a BUG and cannot be used with a form. I created the form, plugged the html in the Code Block and saved the page, the theme rendered the form correctly the first time and I was able to capture the value of the fields in php.
Unluckily, when I tried to edit the Code Block in your Visual Editor the code was not showing properly and the second time the whole idea did not work. I would need to delete the Code Block and enter the code again every time that I needed to edit the page.

Can you please, fix the Code Block?

Now I am going to do a Modal with my own form to do something that I wanted to do in the main page and that I cannot do using the Avia editor. In my book you need to solve this problem.

May be it would be a good idea for future versions of the theme to give access to the form fields in your contact form. Also, it would be nice to be able to access the contact fields using javascript.

Thanks for your answer. I like your theme very much.

P.S. I wanted to access the fields in the form to feed the email, first and last name to the MailChimp. (I did not want to ask the user to enter again the name and email to send it to Mail Chimp)

thanks, it worked!!
I still believe that you should fix your Code Block Element so that form html works directly without using short codes.