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.

[Mastar]

I'm getting problems when selecting Multiple-Line Text Box in Competions.

When I enter a date and save it, it saves it as: 01-01-1970 08:00 AM

[lazyseller]

has anyone had any problems with this ?

[havefun]

very nice. THX
[high]* havefun clicked install [/high]

[D|ver]

Originally Posted by tidy_boy

husain you are awesome been wanting something like this

Just one thing is there away you can make a module for my cmps to show open competitions please

Here is my site www.harddanceaddict.net

Thanks

yeah a cmps mpodule would be so great

[tidy_boy]

yeah can anyone make a cmps module for this hack please

[4number8]

I was needing something similar to this, but for my questions the answer would be unknown untill the event was over, can I still use this and add the event date a day later, than update the answer? would doing it this way still work correctly with the PM's? I have installed it and been playing around with it, but it always states that the event end date has ended... like this: End Date: 1 Minute Ago 06:00 PM
anyone have idea's why this is doing this? thanks for a great hack btw

[husain]

If you don't know the correct answer or if your question doesn't have a correct answer you can leave that field blank. You must however specify a valid end date.

Not specifying the correct answer will not affect the competition in any way. The only thing that will not work is the automatic picking of a winner -- you will have to manually select winners and feed their user IDs into the system.

[4number8]

Is there anyway to get the time to work with detailed in the Datestamp Display Option, that is what is causing it to show up as already ended, if i swith to normal, or today/yesterday it will work. Thanks

[MSheraz86]

A great mod!! Works perfectly thanks!

Though, How can I edit the message in the PM that is autmatically sent??

[Hoffi]

That is stored in the Phrases hkc_pm_conform_message and hkc_pm_conform_subject and hkc_winner_congratulate_message and hkc_winner_congratulate_subject.