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.

[pkallberg21]

Do you have any plans of updating this script to 3.6.7? That would be very nice

Also, I would be very happy if you could create a template to show who if a user has won a tournament in their member profile.

By the way, thanks for this great mod!

[dartho]

seems to work a treat on 3.6.8PL2 :up

[Bilderback]

...working so far on 3.7.0 RC 1
I love it when clean code products are released that will span to multiple versions.
Amazing how this was developed for 3.5.3 and still works on my 3.7.0

[Mum]

Works fine on 3.7.1

[TheSupportForum]

works great on 3.7.3

[EAMedia]

I play habbo, and i think this is just what i needed for my forum.

[manning]

Is the script supposed to redirect to a "thank you for entering" type page after a user enters? Mine just redirects to the main script page where users can click enter again - of course it wont let them, but would be nice if they were shown a thanks page instead...

[GreigScott]

Originally Posted by manning

Is the script supposed to redirect to a "thank you for entering" type page after a user enters? Mine just redirects to the main script page where users can click enter again - of course it wont let them, but would be nice if they were shown a thanks page instead...

go into options then edit?

[manning]

Originally Posted by GreigScott

go into options then edit?

All I see in the settings section is an option to PM users ... nothing about a redirect to thank you for entering page.

[tandalier]

doesn't work here in 3.7.1
can't see the panel, where to change user-rights and cant't see the competition-admin-system.
Any good advise?