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

[cookiepants]

Is there a step by step way to customize the hack? I'm really trying to learn PHP to get this implemented on my site -- I think it would seriously rock for us! But I'm sort of lame at the PHP part.

I copied and pasted it into Notepad so I could try to read the instructions better, but I'm still a bit confused.

Thanks!
Nutmeg

[cookiepants]

once I pasted it into notepad, it was very easy to edit. Thank you!!! :up:

[kartik786]

Is it possible that members can create surveys from such forms which can be filled by other members?

A hack like that would be awesome !!

[cookiepants]

I do have one question. I'd like to add more check boxes than three. How do I do that?

[PaleRiders]

Originally Posted by dirtycrow

hmmm. . . what am i doing wrong?

i wanted to get rid of all the radio buttons and drop downs.

I am having the exact same issue. I've gone over the hook a million times. I realize you have to edit the 'template'....but I'm not sure what template? I've searched through my Style Templates and I have a newthread....but not a newthread_start (where the hook is).

I'm obviously getting something confused here, so if someone could clear this up for me, it'd be much appreciated.

Edit: Figured it out. There is a formanswers template you need to edit, as well as the form template. Makes perfect sense now. Thanks for the great hack!

[leylandfor]

i have this working over at http://www.leylandforum.co.uk/forum/...orum%20Reviews ive noticed that the name of the form appears as the thread title, is there anyway we can make the user choose the thread title.

Im using this for a review service, where poeple can review a cafe, product, service etc.

any suggestions will be appreciated.

[Elenna]

Originally Posted by leylandfor

i have this working over at http://www.leylandforum.co.uk/forum/...orum%20Reviews ive noticed that the name of the form appears as the thread title, is there anyway we can make the user choose the thread title.

Im using this for a review service, where poeple can review a cafe, product, service etc.

any suggestions will be appreciated.

As you know, there is a line in there that sets the thread title to the form title.

In the plugin, look for this:

//////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
//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.
////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
$posttitle = "$formtitle";

Change that last "$formtitle" to the variable you gave the "Product Name".

[leylandfor]

Many thanks, much appreciated

[asandhanam]

I'm doing some additional form validation. Wondering how to display on the same page, i mean display errors on top & the form beneath. Right now the errors are displayed on newthread.php but the form doesn't show up beneath. I also set $_REQUEST['do'] to formname by default..Please help !!!

[trevanh]

I'm getting the following error in all of the forms I've created and I'm not sure where to look to solve the issue...

Warning: Cannot use a scalar value as an array in /includes/functions_newpost.php on line 356

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Trevan

P.S. Line 356 is the main line of the following function:

else
{
$dataman->setr('forumid', $foruminfo['forumid']);
}