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.

[JohnBee]

Can this MOD be used for image competitions?
In a case where users would attach images and members could vote on them?

[criscokid]

Originally Posted by JohnBee

Can this MOD be used for image competitions?
In a case where users would attach images and members could vote on them?

It's the site admin who loads new competitions.

[fishhub]

Originally Posted by criscokid

It's the site admin who loads new competitions.

yes, the site admin will load new competitions. But can the site admin set the competitions for users to upload pictures for polling?
TIA

[criscokid]

You could use it for 'polling'... you'd have to word the text accordingly because the mod uses sentences / phrases like 'enter competition'.

The text and images that you add uses HTML so you can do whatever you want.

[pcoskat]

Originally Posted by criscokid

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

Anyway this can be modified for users to create competitions?

[wilde108]

Is there a way that I can have user's upload images for a contest. To see what im talking about check out my contest section on my site. I want to use this to simplify what im already doing. http://www.photoshopchop.com/Contest

[tidy_boy]

I would like to see this mod edited for users to upload comps as well. Any chance this will be done?

[Kodyr]

When I go to edit the permissions of the usergroups,
The permissions arnt there >.<
What did I do wrong?

[provedel]

Is this hack dead?

Is one of favorites mods, and I find really pleased if this continues to growing...

There a several suggestions can be added to the mod, i hope its continue to be developed.

[Mum]

I would love it for 3.6