Wordpress: Shortcodes - widget

Question

I have the following shortcode. What I would like to do is turn this shortcode into a sidebar area so that I can run a decent contact widget. I have googled and tried a few tutorials but I cannot get it working.
Index.php
<?php
$classes = '';
if (strtolower($menuItem->title) == $precision_contact_page) {
?>
<div id="<?php echo strtolower($menuItem->title); ?>scroller">
<?php
$page_data = get_page($menuItem->page_id);
echo do_shortcode($page_data->post_content);
?>
Functions.php:
//contactform shortcode
function contactform_shortcode( $atts, $content = null ) {
extract( shortcode_atts( array(
'class' => 'content'
), $atts ) );
$returncontent = '<div class="' . esc_attr($class) . '">';
$returncontent .= 'ContactInformation
<h5>Get In Touch</h5><div id="contactform">
<div id="response"></div>
<form id="precision-contact-form" method="POST" action="" class="form">
<div id="main">
<p class="name">
<input type="text" name="uname" id="uname" />
<label for="uname" class="overlabel">Name</label>
</p>
<p class="email">
<input type="text" name="uemail" id="uemail" />
<label for="uemail" class="overlabel">E-mail</label>
</p>
<p class="text">
<textarea name="ucomments" id="ucomments" ></textarea>
</p>
<p class="submit">
<button type="submit" name="submit" id="submit" class="graybutton">Send Email</button>
</p>
</div><!--end main-->
</form>
</div><!--end contact form-->';
$returncontent .= '</div>';
return $returncontent;
}
add_shortcode('contactform', 'contactform_shortcode');
?>

Answer 1

Past this where you want in side bar
<?php echo do_shortcode('[contactform']'); ?>

Answer 2

If you want your shortcode to work in the side bar then you can do the following.
in functions.php add the following
add_filter('widget_text', 'do_shortcode');
This will run all your text widget's content through the *do_shortcode* function.
You can now add a new text widget to your sidebar and use your shortcode inside it, just as if you were in the post edit screen.
[contactform]