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

[ctrl-alt-del]

Can someone explain this statement?

if condition="$dropdownchoice2d == $dropdownanswer2">selected="selected"</if>

In the context of:

<option value="$dropdownchoice2d" <if condition="$dropdownchoice2d == $dropdownanswer2">selected="selected"</if>>$dropdownchoice2d</option>

[Abe1]

Originally Posted by ctrl-alt-del

Can someone explain this statement?

if condition="$dropdownchoice2d == $dropdownanswer2">selected="selected"</if>

In the context of:

<option value="$dropdownchoice2d" <if condition="$dropdownchoice2d == $dropdownanswer2">selected="selected"</if>>$dropdownchoice2d</option>

This 'if' statement is there so the preview can work good. If it's selected when you click 'preview', it will also be selected.

[SeQual]

//USERNAME TO PM TO (separate multiple usernames with a ';')
$formpmname = "SeQual";


Instead of putting
$formpmname = "user1;user2;user3";

I wanne put a variable in there
$formpmname = "$pmmembers";

But the people in the variable don't get a pm, only works if I put the usernames in manually.

The variable is correct tho, when I show variable in the form itself (form from newthread_start) it shows the usernames.

Members this will get pm'd to: SeQual;user1;user2

(SeQual;user1;user2 is in variable $pmmembers)

any idea's?

[pirotess]

Abe I could really use a hand here, Im going nuts trying to figure this out.

Im using this mod to post a form to my forums and it works great with no issues. However I recently decided it would be nice if the form created a second thread/post in a different forum. I made the following modifications to the original plugin. Essentially I just duplicated all the variables and code used in the default plugin responsible for creating the post which I know works and modified a few variables. With all my modifications the original code continues to work but the duplicated code refuses to post in the second forum. I cant understand why since its exactly the same code. Any thoughts?

// Name of the main template
$maintemplate = "wow_appform";
// Name of the answer template
$answertemplate = "wow_apppostcandidate";
// Name of template to be posted to journal forum
$journaltemplate = "wow_apppostjournal";

//FORUM TO POST NEW THREAD IN
//You CAN make this number a variable. You can have a drop down menu or in the link like do=form&f=1. Make sure you add it the variables list.
$formforumid = "141";
$journalforumid = "140";

////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
//TITLE OF THREAD/POST/PM/EMAIL (do not use quotation marks in the title or you will get a parse error)
//You may use variables from the form for this.
////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////

$posttitle = "$bbuserinfo[username] Recruitment Application";
$journaltitle = "$bbuserinfo[username] Journal";

    eval('$formsend = "' . fetch_template("$answertemplate") . '";');
    eval('$journalsend = "' . fetch_template("$journaltemplate") . '";');

        if ($formforum == "1")
        {
            $foruminfo = verify_id('forum', $formforumid, 0, 1);
            $forumperms = fetch_permissions($foruminfo[forumid]);
            $newpost['username'] =& $vbulletin->userinfo['username'];
            $newpost['message'] =& $formsend;
            $newpost['title'] =& $posttitle;
            $newpost['parseurl'] = '1';
            $newpost['poststarttime'] = $poststarttime;
            $newpost['posthash'] = $posthash;

            if ($vbulletin->userinfo['autosubscribe'] != -1)
            {
                $newpost['emailupdate'] = $vbulletin->userinfo['autosubscribe'];
            }
            else
            {
                $newpost['emailupdate'] = 9999;
            }

            if ($vbulletin->userinfo['signature'] != '')
            {
                $newpost['signature'] = '1';
            }
            else
            {
                $newpost['signature'] = '0';
            }

            build_new_post('thread', $foruminfo, array(), array(), $newpost, $errors);

            $foruminfo = verify_id('forum', $journalforumid, 0, 1);
            $forumperms = fetch_permissions($foruminfo[forumid]);
            $newpost['username'] =& $vbulletin->userinfo['username'];
            $newpost['message'] =& $journalsend;
            $newpost['title'] =& $journaltitle;
            $newpost['parseurl'] = '1';
            $newpost['poststarttime'] = $poststarttime;
            $newpost['posthash'] = $posthash;

            if ($vbulletin->userinfo['autosubscribe'] != -1)
            {
                $newpost['emailupdate'] = $vbulletin->userinfo['autosubscribe'];
            }
            else
            {
                $newpost['emailupdate'] = 9999;
            }

            if ($vbulletin->userinfo['signature'] != '')
            {
                $newpost['signature'] = '1';
            }
            else
            {
                $newpost['signature'] = '0';
            }

            build_new_post('thread', $foruminfo, array(), array(), $newpost, $errors);

        }

[pirotess]

Well wouldnt you know it. After fighting with things for 4 hours, I figured out the problem about 5 minutes after I posted here for help. I had my minimum time between posts option set to 15 which was bouncing the second post. Disabling that option let both posts go through.

[ctrl-alt-del]

My question happens to be basic PHP/HTML, but since I'm not a developer, I can't figure out the issue.

I'm trying to associate values (numeric) based on a selection of a dropdown. The numeric variable is associated to a thread ID wherease the dropdown selection is a recognizable name.

Here's the default code:

<select name="dropdownanswer1">
<option value="$dropdownchoice1a" <if condition="$dropdownchoice1a == $dropdownanswer1">selected="selected"</if>>$dropdownchoice1a</option>
</select>

I need to change it to something like:

<option value="$dropdownthreadID" <if condition="$dropdownchoice1a == $dropdownanswer1">selected="selected"</if>>$dropdownchoice1a</option>

Where:
$dropdownthreadID = 100
$dropdownchoice1a = Monday

These variables are called within a newthread_start plugin.

//EXISTING THREAD ID FOR FORM TO REPLY IN
$formreplythreadid = "$dropdownanswer1";

Here's the problem: I can't seem to figure out how to call the named variable (Monday) when the form is submitted. Instead, I get the numerical value. Perhaps it's just a simple IF statement I need to add that writes Monday into another variable. However, I can't seem to figure it out.

Any help would be appreciated!

[hal05]

Great mod! I change some variable and put my own html over it and it works wonders!

[ctrl-alt-del]

Is it possible to insert an IF statement in the Answers form? If so, please tell me how.

[hal05]

Anyone know how I can pass some of the variables into the thread title?

[TenPercenter]

<a href="http://www.chiptalk.net/forum/newthread.php?do=poker_article_submit" target="_blank">Installed</a>! Great hack.

Can I prepopulate any elements? I'd particularly like to pre-populate the vb text area input box. I want to put a template in there, so taht users format article submissions correctly.