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.

[Razfaz]

i need the Competitions Hack for the new Version VB4.
Could to release a new version please?

[Kolbi]

Am I allowed to update it for vB 4?

[Razfaz]

@ Kolbi : I think this is no problem, how long do you think it takes?

[Kolbi]

@Razfaz

First I have to get the permission from the developer

I guess around May it would be ready

[Helmut71]

anything new??
Has this add on updates for vb4 yet?

[Kolbi]

Sorry I never had the time to update

Perhaps I can overview the code this week...

[Kolbi]

I only need someone who updates me the php code

The template things can I manage...

I guess the competitions.php has to be splitted up into some plugins...

[the_ace]

works fine on vb .3.8.6 PL 1

[flr]

Hi,

I have installed onto a new copy of 4.1.1 and customised the NAVBAR code myself. All working but when i click on COMPETITION on the navbar i get the following error:

Warning: fetch_template() calls should be replaced by the vB_Template class. Template name: hkc_competitions_openbit in [path]/includes/functions.php on line 4097

Warning: fetch_template() calls should be replaced by the vB_Template class. Template name: navbar in [path]/includes/functions.php on line 4097

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_STRING in /homepages/1/d348433514/htdocs/cpmedic/competitions.php(353) : eval()'d code on line 1

Warning: fetch_template() calls should be replaced by the vB_Template class. Template name: hkc_COMPETITIONS in [path]/includes/functions.php on line 4097

Any idea?

[dartho]

This add-on will not work under 4.x. Some 3.x functions, in particular those that fetch templates and generate the content do not work under 4.x