Forms Hack

Forms Hack 3.5

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 to upload attachments
• 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

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 2.0: (08/10/2005)

• Ported over for vb3.5

Version 2.1: (08/10/2005)

• bug fix with answers not showing

Version 2.5: (08/13/2005)

• Major update:
• Templates have a few lines changed here and there.
• You can now have more then 2 poll options very easily
• Polls can't be created if your not creating a new thread
• New Thread now uses VB function to add the thread
• New Poll now uses VB function to add the poll
• New Reply now uses VB function to add the reply
• PM now uses VB function to send the PM

Version 2.6: (08/21/2005)

• fixed bug with posts having to be moderated

Version 2.7: (08/23/2005)

• Minor update:
• Fixed some issues with signatures, URL parsing, and subscriptions
• Option to name the post titles
• Made template XHTML 1.0 Transitional

Version 3.0: (11/29/2005)

• Major update:
• Added drop down menu
• Made the long answer show up in a the vb message box
• Re-wrote some instructions
• Pressing back should save work
• Both templates and plug-in were edited
• Some more minor things

Version 3.1: (12/07/2005)

• Brought back the standard text box (longanswer)

Version 3.2: (12/09/2005)

• [ADDED] Option to make polls public.

Version 3.3: (12/19/2005)

• [FIXED] Guests can now post using the forms to make a thread or post. They cannot send a PM though.
• [ADDED] Paypal link so you can make a donation for this hack.

Version 3.4: (04/05/2006)

• [FIXED] Removed extra line from template.
• [ADDED] WYSIWYG editor now works besides the regular editor.
• [ADDED] Preview.
• [CHANGED] Subscriptions now take from user default setting.

Version 3.5: (05/31/2006)

• [ADDED] Check boxes.

Abe1 with rights from Dr Erwin Loh

This hack is created for your use free of charge. No payment is requested. However, if you would like to donate money for the work I put in to this hack, a donation would show your appreciation.

[Mastar]

Thank you very much for you replies, one last question: What would I put in the address bar to get to the forum? I did it for vb3.09 and I had no problems.


http://www.mysite.com/newthread.php?...PLICATION FORM

I didn't get any errors this time but I get this:

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

what would I put there, the '$posttitle =' or the '$formtitle ='?

[Abe1]

Originally Posted by Mastar

Thank you very much for you replies, one last question: What would I put in the address bar to get to the forum? I did it for vb3.09 and I had no problems.


http://www.mysite.com/newthread.php?do=STAFF APPLICATION FORM

User underscores '_' when naming the form. Dont use spaces.

[Abe1]

Originally Posted by Mastar

Never mine I got it working
Thanks ABE1 for you support!
This is the first time I got support for a hack that was giving me trouble.

Your very welcome.

[Mastar]

Never mine I got it working
Thanks ABE1 for you support!
This is the first time I got support for a hack that was giving me trouble.

[silurius]

Hi Abe,

Not sure if you saw my question above. Your help last week was great, but my testing was incomplete and it appears that my form is not able to post to my forum. I can get the form to display now, but when I send I get 'Sorry! This forum is not accepting new posts.' Tried outputting to various forums with wide open permissions, no luck.

[Abe1]

Originally Posted by silurius

Hi Abe,

Not sure if you saw my question above. Your help last week was great, but my testing was incomplete and it appears that my form is not able to post to my forum. I can get the form to display now, but when I send I get 'Sorry! This forum is not accepting new posts.' Tried outputting to various forums with wide open permissions, no luck.

What happend if you disable all other hacks that use the newthread page? Try finiding out which one coses the probelm.

[Bobbo]

I had been running Erwins form on 3.0.7 until I recently upgraded to 3.5 and installed this. Looks great so far, however I'm experiencing two problems.

The first. E-mails dont seem to be coming through. ***(I resolved the email issue)

I do have :

$formemail = "1";

//EMAIL ADDRESS TO EMAIL TO
$formemailaddress = "myname@my.net";

It doesn't seem to mail though. I am getting mail from the system for other features, so I know the mail end is working in general. Any thoughts on where to begin to look?



The second item is on having multiple forms. I need a litttle clarification as I'm new to the plug ins, etc. My forms & templates all contain different types and numbers of questions, etc. Do I need to duplicate the original product-form_hack.xml, make changes to it, and import it as a plug in for each of my forms? (and if so, which specific changes need to be made to the .xml file)

Or do I simply create multiple hooks off the original product-form_hack.xml which I imported?

I have tried both methods. When I have more than one active, the end result is that viewing the form shows a blank white page. Deactivating all except a single hook allows for that form to display properly. What am I missing? ***(I resolved this issue as well. I made a stupid typo in the plug in variable section, doh!)


Thanks for the help! This rocks! :-D

[murrtex]

super hack..but i have some problems.
i installed that and i did /newthread.php?do=form i fill that ..and sent..but where is that thread..i can see from topxstat and when i push "Generic form" it says no access permission..

what sould i do?

okkkeeyy

i solved..thanks

so,,how can we do the multiple forms ?

[Suzie]

I am getting a completely blank page, no errors nothing at all on the page. Any idea why?

[Abe1]

Originally Posted by Suzie

I am getting a completely blank page, no errors nothing at all on the page. Any idea why?

Nope.