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.

[mastersite]

ive pmd you Abe1

[serhat_kk]

Thanks for your help Abe1.
How do i remove WYSIWYG editor ?

[MrWee]

I love this hack!! Ever since I first saw this hack for 3.0, I've wanted to find a way to implement it.

So on my board, we recently installed it and are using it as an "incident report" form that the mods fill out whenever there is a warning or a ban of a user.

The hardest part is getting them to remember to fill it out, so I wonder if someone could help me figure out what to change so that the "ban conformation" screen (the one that says "usera has been banned for 1 week") redirect to this form, instead of to the ban list.

Also, I would like it to include the user name of the person that was just banned in the request string, so it is auto filled in the correct field.

(I already edited the plugin to do this, so newthread.php?do=user_report&uname=foobar puts “foobar” in the field name of the user being reported.)

I don't know if there would be another hook I could use, or if I would have to edit the php files myself, either is fine.

I know this sounds complicated, but if some one could just point me to where I should look at the code, I can probably figure it out!

Thanks in advance!

[mrgrimes]

Hi. I want the emailed version of the answer template to include stuff not shown in the newly created thread. How do I do this?

[Abe1]

Originally Posted by mrgrimes

Hi. I want the emailed version of the answer template to include stuff not shown in the newly created thread. How do I do this?

Not simple. You have to make 2 answer templates and you have to duplicate some things in the plug-in.

[mrgrimes]

Thanks for the response...

Originally Posted by Abe1

You have to make 2 answer templates

I guessed this might be the case.

Originally Posted by Abe1

and you have to duplicate some things in the plug-in.

Is this very complicated or is it a specific block of code that needs copying and tweaking?

[Abe1]

Originally Posted by mrgrimes

Thanks for the response...



I guessed this might be the case.



Is this very complicated or is it a specific block of code that needs copying and tweaking?

You have to copy the code that gets the answer template. Put the copy right before the email function.

[mrgrimes]

Wonderful, thank you.

[DaPro]

Abe1,

My concern for this mod is that it would be rather simple for someone to make a bot that could spam someone's inbox with this script. Is there anyway you can include a function that allows for image verification like in registration and sendmessage.php so that a user is required to verify that? This would make me feel much better about this script, I think this could be a serious security issue.

[Abe1]

Originally Posted by DaPro

Abe1,

My concern for this mod is that it would be rather simple for someone to make a bot that could spam someone's inbox with this script. Is there anyway you can include a function that allows for image verification like in registration and sendmessage.php so that a user is required to verify that? This would make me feel much better about this script, I think this could be a serious security issue.

I'll see if I can make something like this.