New Posting Features - Easy Forms - Create a form or multiple forms without php or html knowledge

EASY FORMS FOR vB 4.x here

Easily create forms with no HTML or PHP knowledge. Questions can be made compulsory and are checked before the form is submitted. Forms can be previewed. (You can create multiple forms)

Backwards compatible with vb v3.7.x and 3.6.8

Example Form | Help File | Version History

Question Types:

• Single line text
• Multi-line text
• Multi-select checkboxes
• Single-select radio buttons
• Single Select Dropdown
• Yes/No
• Multi-line text field using vbeditor (max one per form - limited by vB)
• Human verification question
• Custom Question (can query database or do whatever you want)
• Date (month/ day/ year fields)

Form can Submit to:

• new thread in forum
• new post in thread
• new pm to user
• email address
• save to database

Installation:

• Just Import the Product File
• Set usergroups options
  admincp -> vboptions -> Easy Form Options
• View/Create forms at
  http://your-forum.com/forums/misc.php?do=forms
• Click installed to get latest updates

More Features:

• Form list categories (optional)
• Preview form (can disable for individual forms)
• Optional questions
• Form Sections
• Prefix support - you can choose which prefix you want thread to have
• Different thread/pm title to form title with variables {username} {userid} and {q_1} (replacing 1 with appropriate question number)
• Poll Options: Multiple choice, public vote, poll question, poll options, poll timeout
• Regular expression match for single line text input field
• Usergroup permissions per form
• Forumid/threadid/username can be specified by input via {value=X} in dropdown, single line input or radio buttons
• Multiple dropdown select for form usergroup permissions (still optional - leave blank to not use)
• Option to show link to form list in navbar and quick links (separate options)
• Import/ Export your forms as XML files - great for transferring forms across forums or creating backups
• Specify bbcode for questions/ answers/ sections for the form's output
• Form Hooks: (uses php code)
  1. Before form submitted
     Useful for: your own form validation, multiple form outputs, etc.
  2. At form start
     Useful for: banning userids/usergroups from form, setting minimum post count,etc.
• Attachments allowed for posting new thread
• Mass Copy Forms & their questions

Coming soon:

• Allow attachments for posting in thread

Translations:

• French/ Fran?aise http://www.vbulletin-ressources.com/...apides-t14717/

[Simon Lloyd]

Thanks for that i appreciate it, i have edited the post below, it some way towards what i want, a nice concise uniform look, easy to read.
http://www.thecodecage.com/forumz/to...tml#post207964

[Simon Lloyd]

Bananalive, fantastic support, thanks for the fix!

[alduren]

Thanks for this mod!!.

I have a question. In my form I have a field with this custom form output.



When the answer is blank it shows [IMG] code because this field is not compulsory, like this

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If the field is blank I don?t want to show BBcode, how could I correct this??

[setishock]

That's too cool. After loading the xml sheet I could see clearly how it works. All I needed was an example. Thank you again.

[Vitaly]

Hi, Banana,

At last, got enougth time to study latest changes in your form constructor. Thanks a lot for your work. I have some proposals, may be, youll find those useful for your 3.0 version .

1. Processing can be switched from "form parameters" to "form actions". That will spin flexibility to the next level, and will simplify / improve coding & interface for each action.

Each action can have a custom parameter & action can be added to form in the same manner, as questions. The big advantage is, that you can have several action in one time (or just skip unnecessary one). Here is actions examples:

- posting

• Create Thread
• PM form
• Email Form
• ... (other types of data processing)

- customisations

• Custom success message (? with JS redirect to URL)
• Custom error message if no permissions to use form (? with JS redirect to URL)

Of cause, that can be done via hooks, but that method is much more complicated, than just push mouse buttons . And you are not limited to add new actions, when required. That's a kind of "advanced hooks conctructor"

(*) Don't know what is better: to keep title & template common, or make it individual for each posting action. Probably, second method is better and simplify main form editing page.

2. "Only for guest" questions.

Reason is simple: User should not care, which form to select for feedback. That's extremly significant for advertiser and payed visitors. If he is registered, then additional information is taken from profile. If not - he is asked to fill additional input fields.

Solution is trivial: add flag "only for guests" for all questions.

3. Full template language support in form templates.

AFAIK only macroses are supported now. But it would be useful to support <if> <else> and all internal forum variables in form templates. It seems, there are no serious barriers to do that. vBulletin have a powerful templates parser, that can be used. It's useful with proposal (2), when you can easily fix template output, depending on user permissions.

4. Please, check vulnerabilities issues

- What happens, if user enter macros name in text field? Are such patterns stripped (or converted to safe style) prior to process form?

5. It's better so send Emails in HTML. Вetter look, when use several actions (make post and send email)

(*) If you'll switch to "actions", it's possible to create new one "send email as HTML" . If each action has personal template, that's not a problem at all.

6. Don't know, if it's useful, but I'd enlarge default form description font to SIZE=2. And would remove "Form Description" from border.

7. It would be useful to have form active for user, but hidden from public list. No ideas, why you use 2 access settings in product options, but only sigle setting for each form. Parameter "who can view form in list" can solve it.

8. Date question format. Some prefer dd-mm-yy. May be, format type to this question?

9. Does "send email" support multiple addresses?

(*) Useful, but not critical if multiple actions are supported.

Regards,

Vitaly.

[lazyseller]

Will definately post a paypal donation for your hardwork on this mod.

Originally Posted by lazyseller
Currently you have the ability to submit a reply form to a set thread id.

It would be really great if we could somehow make the thread id dynamic so the whole forum can use the same form. The form would be submitted depending where the user generates the form link from.

http://www.bananalive.co.cc/misc.php...eadid=(dynamic)

"You could use 'Form Hook: Form Start':"

$form['where'] = $vbulletin->input->clean_gpc('g', 'threadid', TYPE_UNIT);
if(!$form['where'])
{
$errormessage = "Error, no threadid specified.";
eval('print_output("' . fetch_template('STANDARD_ERROR') . '");');

Im able to access the form via misc.php?do=form&fid=10&threadid=(dynamic) but the script is unable to figure out which thread to post in.

I left "Threadid where Post is Created:*" blank since this would need to be dynamic. Unsure where to proceed from here.

[Vaupell]

Incredible. Installed, Voted, Nominated

Awsome.
so awsome its a admin feature now

Attachment 93875

[trickfly]

whats the point of this mod ?

[Pedrillo]

Originally Posted by Pedrillo

Great plugin.

I sucesfully installed it in my forum, but when someone fills a form get this javascript error:

vB_Editor[''] is undefined

at (line 2)
return vB_Editor[''].prepare_submit(this.title.value, 0);

And the form is not submited.

I'm using vBulletin 3.8 + vbSeo 3.2.0

I discover that the form is submited or not depending of the order of the variable options that I indicate in the "Thread/ PM/ Email Title: " field:

Example: It's ok with "{q_1}: {q_2}" but not submit the form if I wrote "{q_2}: {q_1}"

In other form it's ok with "{q_6} {q_5}" but not with "{q_5} {q_6}"

What's wrong?

Thank you bananlive!

[brainfood]

Thanks for the great modification. I am just starting to use it and have two questions.

Question 1:
How do I get the form results to be saved to the database? When I creating a new form I see a drop down box with the following options:

PM Form to User
Post New Thread
Post in Thread
Email Form

I do not see anything that allows me to "save to database".

I checked the tables after creating a form and using the form and the formresults tables is empty.

Question 2:
Ideally I want a user to fill out a form and submit it. When it is submitted it is posted to a thread and saved to a database. Is this possible?

Thanks!