Competitions
 

Description
Adds a competition module to your forums. You can create as many competitions and allow members to participate in them.

Features

• Ability to force participants to fill certain custom profile fields
• Send Private Message to members who participate in the competitions
• Ability to allow more than one entry from a participant
• Input field for answers can be either a textbox, a textarea, radio buttons or a drop-down menu
• If the input type is radio buttons or a drop-down menu, the system can filter out wrong answers and generate a list of winners by picking random participants
• Schedule competitions by setting the starting date (user contributed)
• Very customizable

Installation

1. Upload all necessary files to their respective directories.
2. Install the product XML file.
3. Edit the navbar template to add a link to competitions.php page. (see below)
4. Set necessary permissions for each usergroup to access and/or participate in competitions.
5. Edit the "hkc_nopermission_loggedin" and "hkc_winner_congratulate_message" phrase to customize to your taste.

Upgrade

1. Upload all necessary files to their respective directories.
2. Install the product XML file. Be sure to set "Allow Overwrite" to Yes.

Editing the navbar template

1. Open the navbar template

2. Find:

HTML Code:

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<td class="vbmenu_control"><a href="calendar.php$session[sessionurl_q]">$vbphrase[calendar]</a></td>

---

3. Add after:

HTML Code:

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<td class="vbmenu_control"><a href="competitions.php$session[sessionurl_q]">$vbphrase[hkc_competitions]</a></td>

---

4. Save template :)

Author Notes
This extension was developed specifically for my website but I am releasing the code since a few members here have have shown interest. I cannot state that it is totally free of bugs. I would appreciate your feedback in making this extension better.

Maybe in Future
At the moment, the question is only restricted to one per competition. I would like to have the ability to add more than one question per competition.

great thank you for this hack :)
i will definately test this out :D

I don't see it on the forum only in the admincp.

When I run the ./competitions.php I get this error:

Warning: Division by zero in /includes/functions.php(4259) : eval()'d code on line 10

This is probably because I'm running vb 3.50?

If so is there a competition for Vb 3.50?

i can't access competitins.php (userid=1)

Edited because I found out why I couldnt access it, had to go into usergroups and right to the bottom to select allow to enter

Me too :(


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I have this working ok on my site now thank you:nervous:

ah thanks, now its also working for me
great addon :)

Looks very interesting, i will check this out later

Ditto, good job :nervous:

Looks like a great addition to me.

Will definately try it out

Same here.. what`s wrong? What to do to make it work properly?

Oh sweet. I was hoping to see a competition hack but I thought that it's not possible but were we go, you have just made it!

Thank you VERY much! :D

edit the permissions for each usergroup in the acp

@D|ver -thank you :)
It`s working fine now.

Thank you all for your feedback. It is apparent that I forgot to mention very important post-installation steps and left you all to do some detective work. Sorry -- this is the first time I am publishing something here. I have added instructions on how to install the extension.

This extension was developed for vBulletin 3.5 and I am running it on my forums (v 3.5.1) without any problems.

is there a referral competition hack for 3.5.x? if not, can this be modified to do that?

Nice hack, installed.

Yet I think the hack is quite useless if you can only specify one question...

Agree. I meant to add multiple-question functionality for quite some time now. Unfortunately I haven't been able to dedicate enough time for it's development. Maybe if enough people show interest, I may be motivated to set aside a couple of hours everyday to add this functionality :)

I really need multiple-question functionality so if you could add it that be great :)

Any chance of a working demo? Thank you.

<a href="http://forums.mgszone.com/competitions.php" target="_blank">http://forums.mgszone.com/competitions.php</a>

You'll need to register inorder to view the competition page.

is there any way to delete entries? per the admincp?
and how do you change the thankyou PM?

Yes you can delete entries via the ACP.

You'll need to edit the phrase using Phrase Manager.

Nice forum man. Thanks for this hack.

Hehe thank you for your compliment. Wait to see the new skin. :p

For those who would like to customize this hack, all phrases and templates begin with hkc_

Multiple questions is the way to go so yer i second the motion to do it mate :)

What about to build in a start date? I want to build a Advent Calendar, and every Day only one Question should be displayed.

yay i hope i can use this as a contest thing

How is this different from the inferno quiz apart from the number of questions? :)

hmm i got an error message after picking winners



Datenbankfehler in vBulletin 3.5.1:

Invalid SQL:

SELECT profilefieldid, title
FROM profilefield
WHERE profilefieldid IN ();

MySQL-Fehler : You have an error in your SQL syntax. Check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near ')' at line 3
Fehler-Nr. : 1064
Datum : Sunday, November 6th 2005 @ 01:18:13 PM
Skript : http://www.xxx.com/forums/admincp/co...ionmanager.php
Referrer : http://www.xxx.com/forums/admincp/co...ompetitionid=1
Benutzername : xxx
Klassenname : vb_database

Fixed. You can download the zip file and only replace the old competitionmanager.php file (in admincp) with the new one.

Oh dear! I didn't realize there was another hack that could do the same things that my hack does :)

husain you are awesome been wanting something like this :D

Just one thing is there away you can make a module for my cmps to show open competitions please

Here is my site www.harddanceaddict.net

Thanks

I am afraid not: due to time constraints. However, it shouldn't be too difficult and I can offer my help should you wish to code it yourself.

I do not know anything about coding :-(

What are you talking about? This is a competition hack. The other one is a quiz hack.

the quiz hack is not anything like this hack husain :)

Well it took me about 3 dozen attempts to install including having to re-write the XML and manually do the queries, but eventually we got there and it now works.

On the whole, a nice little hack, but a complete ball ache to get working. I recommend you revisit your XML and check it over again.