Version: 4.1, by Abe1
Developer Last Online: Jun 2010
Category: New Posting Features -
Version: 3.6.x
Rating:
Released: 09-14-2006
Last Update: 04-23-2008
Installs: 1216
Uses Plugins Template Edits
No support by the author.
Form Hack 4.1
Features:
Ever wanted an online form that a user can fill out, which when submitted gets:
Posted into a new thread in a forum of your choice
Create a new poll in the new thread with options of your choice
Posted as a reply in an existing thread of your choice
PMed to you or someone else
Emailed to an email address you specify
Choose to redirect to the post, thread or forum, or a custom thank you message
Choose to redirect to edit post
See a preview before they submit
Or any combination or all of the above?
Well, this is the hack for you!
You can use this for:
Moderator Applications
Quiz Submit Form which gets PMed to a moderator
Contact Form that goes to PM, email or thread
Guests to apply to be members
Report a Moderator form that goes as a PM to you
Guests can PM you for whatever reason
Order form to buy things
Donation form
News or Articles submissions that can go straight to a thread
Or anything you like - this hack is totally customizable via the AdminCP.
The beauty of this hack is that once you install this hack, to make a new form all you need to do is copy the main hook, rename it to whatever you want, edit the variables in the hook, and you have a totally new form!!! You do not need to touch the templates again, but can always create new ones and use different templates for different forms.
Format of the form:
One main input question
3 Radio buttons Choice questions
3 Normal text input questions
1 Drop down menu
3 Check boxes
1 Long answer question
1 VB message editor text box question
Upload attachments
This is customizable via the hook.
Also:
You can set the usergroups you want access to this form.
Depending on your forum permissions, if the new thread is in a public forum, members can reply to it. This hack allows a form to submit the new thread or post wherever you want it to go.
Force the user to answer all questions.
INSTALLATION Easy - takes only a few minutes:
Import the XML into products. (admin cp -> Plug-in System -> Manage Products -> Add/Import Product)
Edit the main plug-in - the instructions are all inside the hook itself, in the top half. Follow the instructions carefully!
To get to the form, go to: /newthread.php?do=form (change "form" to the name of your form if you have few)
Done!
Use this hack to make as many forms as you like!
Enjoy!
Updates:
Version 4.0: (09/15/2006)
Ported over for vb3.6
Send to multiple emails.
Send multiple PMs.
Parse emails for BBCode
And finally, ATTACHMENTS!
Version 4.1: (04/24/2008)
Fixed for vb 3.6.10
Small bug fixed.
List of the 2 quick edits are in the zip file so you don't have to start making a form from scratch.
MAKE SURE YOU CLICK INSTALL! You will get an email when a new version is released.
Oh my goodness..... my form shown up alright in Internet Explorer (see attached "Internet explorer.jpg) but not in Firefox (see attached "Firefox.jpg).
What could have gone wrong?
It looks like you may have an incorrectly form comment somewhere. <!-- -->
It's a good thing I refuse to use Firefox. It's an over-rated, worshipless piece of pap that I only ever touch for the plugins people make for it, such as Download managers. I come for their work, not the work of Mozilla.
At least IE8 will come out with Standard mode available.
That may be true but with so many members out there, I cannot force each and everyone of them to use IE. So, well..... no choice, we have to balance between the two.
I will try and remove the unwanted codes that I have commented out and see how it turn out
ccplim,,,
Use the process of elimination by testing the original form in this mod in IE and FF,,, if all goes well with the original form,,, then next check your new form step by step until you find the issue and correct them or it...
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Yes,,, this mod works with 3.7...
ABE1 has version 4.1 listed above,,, download and read instructions...
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rwoscott,,,
Upload your form in .txt format and I will try to find the problem in your form...
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grimmer,,, I understand your post...
But can you be more specific about what you are trying to do???
I will help if what you ask,,, isn't difficult...
rwoscott,,, I setup your form and tested on my wamp pc server and my online server and all is well...
I didn't see any issues with your form,,, and so I only changed the forum id from 56 to ...>>> formforumid = "2"; and submitted... It posted without problems...
ccplim,,,
I took a deeper look at your main template and yes rwoscott is correct about there are a few errors causing alignment problems and FF issues...
rwoscott,,, I setup your form and tested on my wamp pc server and my online server and all is well...
I didn't see any issues with your form,,, and so I only changed the forum id from 56 to ...>>> formforumid = "2"; and submitted... It posted without problems...
Verify that forumid's exist and try again...
Very odd, I changed it to forumid "2" as well and still nothing.
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05-22-2008, 08:11 PM
