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Form Hack
Version: 4.1, by Abe1 Abe1 is offline
Developer Last Online: Jun 2010 Show Printable Version Email this Page

Category: New Posting Features - Version: 3.6.x Rating:
Released: 09-14-2006 Last Update: 04-23-2008 Installs: 1216
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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

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  #1242  
Old 09-05-2008, 02:13 AM
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after the update to 3.7.3 there is an securitytokken error using this hack.?
is this true?
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Old 09-05-2008, 07:38 AM
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Sorry if this has been asked before, but is it possible to redirect to a specified page with our own URL instead of a thankyou message. Thankyou
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Old 09-06-2008, 11:57 AM
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is this true?
Try searching vbulletin.org for "Security Token", you'll find that it's not related to this specific hack at all.

I'm guessing you went from 3.6.8 to 3.7.3?

Just search for the term and you will find a solution.
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Old 09-06-2008, 11:58 AM
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Has anyone been able to find a way to warn the user when the title is too long for the 'thread'?

I'm finding that our users are putting a very long title in.

I have a field set: Please give a brief description of the problem here

Well, they seem to think that brief means long....

So they go to submit a bug report, they are told by vBulletin that it's submitted...yet nothing ever shows up because the title is too long.
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Old 09-09-2008, 10:55 AM
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Great hack!

For some reason when I import this product to a new set of forums running vBulletin 3.7.3 and try the newthread.php?do=<name> it gives me a parse error:

Code:
Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_STRING in /<taken out>/forums/newthread.php(74) : eval()'d code on line 100
I tried it in forums running 3.7.0 and it doesn't work either, whereas the original forum I made these for was running 3.7.0.. It honestly makes no sense. Any help is appreciated!
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Old 09-09-2008, 12:44 PM
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Check around line 100 for a missing semicolon( ; ), double quote( " ), single quote( ' ) or bracket( { ).
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Old 09-10-2008, 10:18 PM
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Originally Posted by RedGTiVR6 View Post
Has anyone been able to find a way to warn the user when the title is too long for the 'thread'?

I'm finding that our users are putting a very long title in.

I have a field set: Please give a brief description of the problem here

Well, they seem to think that brief means long....

So they go to submit a bug report, they are told by vBulletin that it's submitted...yet nothing ever shows up because the title is too long.
The way I had took care of this was go to your input textbox for the thread title and add maxlength="75". I believe the cut off is 80 but I just put 75 to be safe. This will work its funny to cause I just was asked to do this.

Has anyone gotten this to work where you must have a certain amount of post before you can do it.
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Old 09-10-2008, 10:22 PM
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The way I had took care of this was go to your input textbox for the thread title and add maxlength="75". I believe the cut off is 80 but I just put 75 to be safe. This will work its funny to cause I just was asked to do this.

Has anyone gotten this to work where you must have a certain amount of post before you can do it.
can you show me exactly per the code? I'm not sure I understand.

Input text box....is that in teh product its self or in the form template?

As for your second question, can you put those users in another group and allow only that group (and others) to use the form?

On my forums I have used the active members and registered members groups.

Active for those I want to be allowed to use the features of the site.
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Old 09-12-2008, 01:57 PM
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How do I add a url into the form? It is just showing up as plain text and not as a link. Pic attached.

Attachment 86798
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Old 09-12-2008, 04:14 PM
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How do I add a url into the form? It is just showing up as plain text and not as a link. Pic attached.

Attachment 86798
Use html.
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