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.

[powerbook]

I installed and also get access not allowed. I can't see the permision in the usergroups. There is nothing in group permissions about competition...

[Antivirus]

Originally Posted by powerbook

I installed and also get access not allowed. I can't see the permision in the usergroups. There is nothing in group permissions about competition...

It's under Usergroup Permissions, the second table down from top.
Admincp>Usergroups>UsergroupManager>EditUsergroup

[red-dna]

ok, working fine. But, how the users can post new competitions ?

[criscokid]

Originally Posted by red-dna

how the users can post new competitions ?

It's not designed for users to create new competitions only for site admins.

[mcyates]

this WORKS in version 3.6.0 also.

[VViper]

what an awesome hack, i would love the ability to add an image in the competion, like name that band based on an album cover. Any chances of that in upcoming editions.

[ibetthis]

Well, how do admin select a winner. I don't see an option to do that...

[jellybaby]

if you click on competition managers it should show your competitions there and it should show "Get Winner" next to the individual competitions

[criscokid]

Originally Posted by VViper

i would love the ability to add an image in the competion

You can do that using HTML in the text block.

[fishhub]

any links to show how the competition hack works?