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.

[stonyarc]

Looks like a great addition to me.

Will definately try it out

[MaTraX]

Originally Posted by BoYagoob

Me too


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Same here.. what`s wrong? What to do to make it work properly?

[Snake]

Oh sweet. I was hoping to see a competition hack but I thought that it's not possible but were we go, you have just made it!

Thank you VERY much!

[D|ver]

Originally Posted by MaTraX

Same here.. what`s wrong? What to do to make it work properly?

edit the permissions for each usergroup in the acp

[MaTraX]

@D|ver -thank you
It`s working fine now.

[husain]

Thank you all for your feedback. It is apparent that I forgot to mention very important post-installation steps and left you all to do some detective work. Sorry -- this is the first time I am publishing something here. I have added instructions on how to install the extension.

Originally Posted by Mastar

This is probably because I'm running vb 3.50?

If so is there a competition for Vb 3.50?

This extension was developed for vBulletin 3.5 and I am running it on my forums (v 3.5.1) without any problems.

[yinyang]

is there a referral competition hack for 3.5.x? if not, can this be modified to do that?

[Kurisu]

Nice hack, installed.

Yet I think the hack is quite useless if you can only specify one question...

[husain]

Originally Posted by Kurisu

Nice hack, installed.

Yet I think the hack is quite useless if you can only specify one question...

Agree. I meant to add multiple-question functionality for quite some time now. Unfortunately I haven't been able to dedicate enough time for it's development. Maybe if enough people show interest, I may be motivated to set aside a couple of hours everyday to add this functionality

[C.Birch]

I really need multiple-question functionality so if you could add it that be great