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

[John3971]

hey how can i get some text with BOLD ? i tried to use the bbcode and i tried with the html code but it doesn´t work. with the bbcode you can´t save the template.

[Kahoona]

Is there a way to make some of the questions answered into the title of a thread?

[ionian]

I want to display an image and web link in the output form. Is there any way to do this?

For example,
in the form template:

  <input type="text" size="50" src="" name="normalanswer2" />

I used this url for scr tag in the form:
http://img397.imageshack.us/img397/7...resmieshd3.jpg
But, displayed the link of the image. I want to display the imege. How can I do this?

[ionian]

Please help me. How can I displaye an image in the output form?

[vrokar]

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_STRING in /home/siphon/public_html/forums/newthread.php(71) : eval()'d code on line 899

Getting this error. Havnt changed anything was working perfect yetserday. I did copy the form and change the name though trying to make a second. Havnt finished though. Any ideas?

Also Got

Invalid Forum specified. If you followed a valid link, please notify the administrator

Like I said, no forums have been changed or anything. So im a but confused as to why this happened. Any ideas?

[Mother_Dee]

Originally Posted by vrokar

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_STRING in /home/siphon/public_html/forums/newthread.php(71) : eval()'d code on line 899

Getting this error. Havnt changed anything was working perfect yetserday. I did copy the form and change the name though trying to make a second. Havnt finished though. Any ideas?

Also Got

Invalid Forum specified. If you followed a valid link, please notify the administrator

Like I said, no forums have been changed or anything. So im a but confused as to why this happened. Any ideas?

newthread.php - line 71:

($hook = vBulletinHook::fetch_hook('newthread_start')) ? eval($hook) : false;

Instructions at the top of the page:

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!!!

That's my guess as to your problem.

[Deepdog009]

Hello Folks,,,

I've been practicing on my php and it ain't easy let me tell U...

N-E ways If I get better in the next few weeks I will do an add-on 2 this, that should help most with setting it up from the HOOK line and sinker {<...fishing talk}...

Keep the ball rolling

[Chewy954]

any plans on a 3.7.0 version? I love this ;o

[Xceptional]

Great hack Abe, thanks, works perfectly. 1 Q, I want the same form to reply to different threads, depending on what link they clicked on to get to the form. I've included 2 variables in the link, and want the form to reply to the thread that is received in the URL from the variable.
I've been trying something like $formreplythreadid = '$variable', and get a "cannot use scalar value as array" error from funtions_newpost.php on line 267.

I've tried adding in the variables into the variable area, converting the variables to strings, to integers, just getting lost..

Any help or suggestions?

[Xceptional]

got it sorted, needed to add hidden fields in the form template that passes the variables on to the plugin code. Also added the variables to both parts in the plugin code