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.

[tris]

I have made a hack which includes more information about the winners in the PM to the competition admin. (e.g. Name, Surname, Street, City etc.)

You only need to modify the custom profile fields to your needs.

E.g. if your customprofile field9 contains the user surname, field10 contains the lastname etc.

Just replace the competitionmanager.php with the attached and modify the customfields on line 590 and 592.

[kadafi_alive]

Any update on the more-than-1-question development?

[husain]

Originally Posted by kadafi_alive

Any update on the more-than-1-question development?

Nope. Multiple-question feature will essentially take this hack back to the drawing board stage as it requires a huge database and code change. While I am working on this, I am not making any commitments to deliver it.

[husain]

I have updated the hack to add some new features that were requested here.

• Ability to schedule competitions. You can now set a starting date for competitions. This feature was contributed by Hoffi so all credit goes to him.
• You can now delete entries.
• Competitions can be disabled. This is useful if you want to preserve the competition information and entries but do not want it to appear on the live website.
• Some other minor changes.

As always suggestions, criticism, and feedback is welcome.

[tris]

Many thanks for the update.

I have already integrated the "Include profilefields in Winnerlist PM"

You must edit line 656 and line 658 to include your profile field numbers.

$userinfo .= "Username: {$row['username']}\nEmail: {$row['email']}\n {$userfields['field9']} {$userfields['field10']} {$userfields['field11']} {$userfields['field12']}\n";

unset($row['username'], $row['email'], $userfields['field9'], $userfields['field10'], $userfields['field11'], $userfields['field12']);

[kadafi_alive]

Originally Posted by husain

Nope. Multiple-question feature will essentially take this hack back to the drawing board stage as it requires a huge database and code change. While I am working on this, I am not making any commitments to deliver it.

Alright.

Can you also tell me why End Date says:
1 Minute Ago 12:00 AM

instead of showing the actual end date?

Thanks

[husain]

Originally Posted by kadafi_alive

Alright.

Can you also tell me why End Date says:
1 Minute Ago 12:00 AM

instead of showing the actual end date?

Thanks

I haven't been able to reproduce this error on my installation. Does it show you for any competition you create?

[kadafi_alive]

Originally Posted by husain

I haven't been able to reproduce this error on my installation. Does it show you for any competition you create?

Yes and it stays at that. It doesn't change at all.

In fact, 4number8 has also the same problem:

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

[Hoffi]

Originally Posted by kadafi_alive

Can you also tell me why End Date says:
1 Minute Ago 12:00 AM

This depends onb your local Settings. You display the detailed Versin for the Date. This also happens to this Hack.

[kadafi_alive]

Originally Posted by Hoffi

This depends onb your local Settings. You display the detailed Versin for the Date. This also happens to this Hack.

Yes, I use the detailed time on my forum. Are you saying that it's not compatible with the detailed time function?