New Posting Features - Form Hack

Form Hack 4.1

Features:

Ever wanted an online form that a user can fill out, which when submitted gets:

• Posted into a new thread in a forum of your choice
• Create a new poll in the new thread with options of your choice
• Posted as a reply in an existing thread of your choice
• PMed to you or someone else
• Emailed to an email address you specify
• Choose to redirect to the post, thread or forum, or a custom thank you message
• Choose to redirect to edit post
• See a preview before they submit

Or any combination or all of the above?

Well, this is the hack for you!

You can use this for:

• Moderator Applications
• Quiz Submit Form which gets PMed to a moderator
• Contact Form that goes to PM, email or thread
• Guests to apply to be members
• Report a Moderator form that goes as a PM to you
• Guests can PM you for whatever reason
• Order form to buy things
• Donation form
• News or Articles submissions that can go straight to a thread

Or anything you like - this hack is totally customizable via the AdminCP.

The beauty of this hack is that once you install this hack, to make a new form all you need to do is copy the main hook, rename it to whatever you want, edit the variables in the hook, and you have a totally new form!!! You do not need to touch the templates again, but can always create new ones and use different templates for different forms.

Format of the form:

• One main input question
• 3 Radio buttons Choice questions
• 3 Normal text input questions
• 1 Drop down menu
• 3 Check boxes
• 1 Long answer question
• 1 VB message editor text box question
• Upload attachments

This is customizable via the hook.

Also:

• You can set the usergroups you want access to this form.
• Depending on your forum permissions, if the new thread is in a public forum, members can reply to it. This hack allows a form to submit the new thread or post wherever you want it to go.
• Force the user to answer all questions.

INSTALLATION
Easy - takes only a few minutes:

• Import the XML into products. (admin cp -> Plug-in System -> Manage Products -> Add/Import Product)
• Edit the main plug-in - the instructions are all inside the hook itself, in the top half. Follow the instructions carefully!
• To get to the form, go to: /newthread.php?do=form (change "form" to the name of your form if you have few)

Done!

Use this hack to make as many forms as you like!

Enjoy!

Updates:

Version 4.0: (09/15/2006)

• Ported over for vb3.6
• Send to multiple emails.
• Send multiple PMs.
• Parse emails for BBCode
• And finally, ATTACHMENTS!

Version 4.1: (04/24/2008)

• Fixed for vb 3.6.10
• Small bug fixed.
• List of the 2 quick edits are in the zip file so you don't have to start making a form from scratch.

MAKE SURE YOU CLICK INSTALL!
You will get an email when a new version is released.

Abe1 with rights from Dr Erwin Loh

[zmmmzz]

Thank you so much for being so responsive to this update.
This hack is very important for my site and I appreciate that you updated so fast.

I hope we see tags integration sometime.

[vyrush]

i guess no one is bother to give a reply!

[laura66a]

Can someone please show me sample of how to add a background image to the code for a form? I can find where in the template to add the background image because I am not that familiar with CSS.

Thanks.

[Spinball]

Does this work on 3.7? Or is there a 3.7 release coming soon?

[Kinneas]

It still works fine for me

[enjoymarcus]

Hi. Great mod. I was looking at using it for a non Vbulletin page, allowing people to submit questions/suggestions/problems etc to the forum. Is this possible? Thanks.

[RMS-Chef]

Abe, any plans in integrating/supporting the new Thread Tags and Prefix features?

[ccplim]

Great mod! Something which I really need :up:

Now, I am not a PHP/HTML guy and I forsee that I will have many questions down the road. But, I will take it slowly. Hope to get some tips from all brothers here and hope that I wouldn't become a nuisance

[alternity]

Hi, I'm having issues with this hack since upgrading to 3.7. The forms display correctly, but when I try to submit them I get the following text on a white background:

Your submission could not be processed because a security token was missing or mismatched.

If this occurred unexpectedly, please inform the administrator and describe the action you performed before you received this error.

I'm running Form Hack 4.1.
Any ideas?

[dutchbb]

Originally Posted by alternity

Hi, I'm having issues with this hack since upgrading to 3.7. The forms display correctly, but when I try to submit them I get the following text on a white background:

I'm running Form Hack 4.1.
Any ideas?

Yes I'm having the same error message, any help from the coder please?