Competitions

Description
Adds a competition module to your forums. You can create as many competitions and allow members to participate in them.

Features

• Ability to force participants to fill certain custom profile fields
• Send Private Message to members who participate in the competitions
• Ability to allow more than one entry from a participant
• Input field for answers can be either a textbox, a textarea, radio buttons or a drop-down menu
• If the input type is radio buttons or a drop-down menu, the system can filter out wrong answers and generate a list of winners by picking random participants
• Schedule competitions by setting the starting date (user contributed)
• Very customizable

Installation

1. Upload all necessary files to their respective directories.
2. Install the product XML file.
3. Edit the navbar template to add a link to competitions.php page. (see below)
4. Set necessary permissions for each usergroup to access and/or participate in competitions.
5. Edit the "hkc_nopermission_loggedin" and "hkc_winner_congratulate_message" phrase to customize to your taste.

Upgrade

1. Upload all necessary files to their respective directories.
2. Install the product XML file. Be sure to set "Allow Overwrite" to Yes.

Editing the navbar template

1. Open the navbar template

2. Find:

<td class="vbmenu_control"><a href="calendar.php$session[sessionurl_q]">$vbphrase[calendar]</a></td>

3. Add after:

<td class="vbmenu_control"><a href="competitions.php$session[sessionurl_q]">$vbphrase[hkc_competitions]</a></td>

4. Save template

Author Notes
This extension was developed specifically for my website but I am releasing the code since a few members here have have shown interest. I cannot state that it is totally free of bugs. I would appreciate your feedback in making this extension better.

Maybe in Future
At the moment, the question is only restricted to one per competition. I would like to have the ability to add more than one question per competition.

[D|ver]

great thank you for this hack
i will definately test this out

[Mastar]

I don't see it on the forum only in the admincp.

When I run the ./competitions.php I get this error:

Warning: Division by zero in /includes/functions.php(4259) : eval()'d code on line 10

This is probably because I'm running vb 3.50?

If so is there a competition for Vb 3.50?

[D|ver]

i can't access competitins.php (userid=1)

[jellybaby]

Edited because I found out why I couldnt access it, had to go into usergroups and right to the bottom to select allow to enter

[BoYagoob]

Originally Posted by D|ver

i can't access competitins.php (userid=1)

Originally Posted by jellybaby

I get a you do not have permission page when I do competitions.php

Me too


BoYagoob, you do not have permission to access this page. This could be due to one of several reasons:

Your user account may not have sufficient privileges to access this page. Are you trying to edit someone else's post, access administrative features or some other privileged system?
If you are trying to post, the administrator may have disabled your account, or it may be awaiting activation.
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[jellybaby]

I have this working ok on my site now thank you:nervous:

[D|ver]

ah thanks, now its also working for me
great addon

[SnowBot]

Looks very interesting, i will check this out later

[michaelbenson]

Originally Posted by SnowBot

Looks very interesting, i will check this out later

Ditto, good job :nervous: