New Posting Features - Form Hack

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.

Abe1 with rights from Dr Erwin Loh

[Murex]

Is there a way to take $answer1 and have it written to a custom field in the user's profile settings? IE. It asked them for the make of their car, and it writes it to field8.

[MrAd]

is it possible to put ip adress to the forum. It can be taken either from forum or externally such as whatismyip.com

Ipadress:
Your Ipadress.

[Sawa Dee SohL]

Originally Posted by ntrance

Is there a way to only allow registered users to use the form, Currently we are being spammed using the form.

Also can you get the IP address in the post to ban if the form post is a spam

The line you're looking for is:

////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////

// if (!in_array($vbulletin->userinfo['usergroupid'], array(2,5,6,7))) print_no_permission();

////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////

Which is neard the top of the hack.

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My question for some help:

I'm trying to get the text(content I put in) to show up bigger - How can I enlarge the text/Make the font bigger?

How would I be able to make it so the Radio buttons - aren't so spread apart? Or make the font smaller for the default questions?

[Digital Jedi]

For the form itself, you can edit the HTML in the form template wherever you need to. For the submitted form, the only thing you can add is BBCode to the formanswer template, and you sometime have to space the code away from the variables, or it will give you a conditionals error when trying to save it.

[b] $longanswer [/b]

[EricPSF]

Hi,

Great mod!

Is it possible to direct/ link to another webpage after submission of the form? How to do it?

Thanks!

[asandhanam]

Thanks for the mod. I installed it several months back and running fine. But i need to be able to use a captcha image verification with this to stop spam (been receiving a lot of spam these days). Which one would you recommend? I'm sorry if this has been answered earlier. There are lot of comments and doesn't look like i can go through all of them

[Digital Jedi]

Originally Posted by EricPSF

Hi,

Great mod! Is is suitable for 3.7.X?

Thanks!

Yes, I and others have it running on various 3.7s.

Originally Posted by asandhanam

Thanks for the mod. I installed it several months back and running fine. But i need to be able to use a captcha image verification with this to stop spam (been receiving a lot of spam these days). Which one would you recommend? I'm sorry if this has been answered earlier. There are lot of comments and doesn't look like i can go through all of them

Check the Add Ons at the bottom of the main post.

[asandhanam]

Thanks I did. Doesn't look like these are supported anymore?
# Double Image Verification * Forms & Custom pages
# Image Match "Forms Hack add-on"

[parabat]

Originally Posted by aflax045

Already had done that. It was some other issue, thanks anyway.

Hi aflax045
Can you tell me how you corrected that issue you had?
-PB

[asandhanam]

Originally Posted by asandhanam

Thanks I did. Doesn't look like these are supported anymore?
# Double Image Verification * Forms & Custom pages
# Image Match "Forms Hack add-on"

Can anybody suggest a captcha system that works well with this hack? I tried noSpam. But encountered problems getting it to work with this.