New Posting Features - Easy Forms v4.x - Create a form or multiple forms without php or html knowledge

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)

Screenshots
There are two posts full of screenshots of this modification

• https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost....64&postcount=3
• https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost....65&postcount=4

Installation

1. Download and then extract .zip archive
2. Upload the contents of upload folder to forum root
   (Allow Overwrite "YES" for overwrite)
   clientscript\easyforms.css -> \clientscript\
   clientscript\easyforms.js -> \clientscript\
3. Import product file (product-easyforms v4.0.xml) in admincp
   AdminCP -> Plugins & Products -> Manage Products -> [Add/Import Product]
4. Change usergroups permissions at:
   AdminCP -> vBulletin Options -> Easy Form Options

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
• Human verification question
• Custom Question (can query database or do whatever you want using php and html)
• Date (month/ day/ year fields)
• Address
• Scale

Form can Submit to:

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

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
• Quiz Mode

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[SpaceStar]

Superb. Working.

Just a simple question, maybe it's asked and answered before...

When a user has submitted the form, is there a way of validating the answered and show the result to user?

Thamks

[bananalive]

Originally Posted by clubvr4

Hello great hack!

Is it possible to make attachments mandatory?

Edit Form -> Form Hooks -> Form Hook: Before Submit:

PHP Code:

$currentattaches = $db->query_first("SELECT COUNT(*) AS countrows FROM " . TABLE_PREFIX . "attachment WHERE posthash = '" . $db->escape_string($posthash) . "' AND userid = " . $vbulletin->userinfo['userid'] );
$attachcount = $currentattaches['countrows'];
if (!$attachcount)
{
$complete = false;
$customerror .= '<div class="blockrow"><div>Error, No attachments!</div></div>';
} 


[bananalive]

Originally Posted by Za4a Tuner

Hello,
i have two question to this mod:

1.)
How can i link the "new thread"-button of a forum to a form?
In a forum with the ID = 46 the "new thread" should be replaced by a form with the ID = 4
If someone like to create a new thread, he should use the form nr. 4, wich "Post a new Thread" in the forum.

2.)
The forum above MUST have a prefix, but not always the same prefix => users should be able to use a prefix that fits to the form.
I created a custom question with the following php-code inside:

PHP Code:

require_once(DIR . '/includes/functions_prefix.php'); 
$thisanswer = $q[$formbit[id]]; 
if (!$form['forumid'])
{
$form['forumid'] = 46;
}
$prefix_options = fetch_prefix_html($form['forumid'], $thisanswer, true); 
$answer = '<select name="' . $formbit[id] . '" id="q_' . $formbit[id] . '" class="bginput">'; 
$answer .= '<option value="">'.$vbphrase[no_prefix_meta].'</option>'; 
$answer .= $prefix_options; 
$answer .= '</select>'; 


The question will be shown on the form, but there are no prefixes displayed! How can i get it running?



Can anyone give me a help please?

kr Chris

1. Vbulletin AdminCP -> New Plugin
Hook location: newthread_form_start
Php code:

PHP Code:

if (in_array($forumid, array(1,2))) 
{ 
header( 'Location: http://www.youriste.com/forums/misc.php?do=form&fid=8' ) ; 
} 


2. Add the following to the custom php question, do you get the right forumid (46) at the top of the form?

PHP Code:

print_r($form['forumid']); 


[bananalive]

Originally Posted by Welshy2008

I am running vB4.0.7 currently and all forms have been taken from my 3.8.6 version.

I have just tried to add a new "e-mail to me" form, but I have several issues.

1. I have a prefilled username question (which doesn't align in the centre, like the others, but instead shows on the left under the question).

2. I enter an E-mail title and it doesn't save -I get diverted to http://www.myforum.com/#main-forums

3. The same thing happens when I select the tickbox for E-mail Form. (as number 2 above). Previously there was a box that appeared where I would enter the e-mail address that I want the form enailed to, this no longer shows.

4. Form Submit Limit Per User: doesn't save either

5. After Form is Submitted - Form submitted Message doesn't save.

Please can you help me with the above (or anyone else)? I desperately need your help in this, as I need to add these as soon as please.


I also have search engine friendly URLs and vBSEO installed.

Many Thanks.

It may be caused by vbseo, can you disable it on page misc.php and see if that has an effect?

[bananalive]

Originally Posted by zushiba

What would be the easiest way to go about putting a character limit on text and textarea fields?

Edit Question, set maxlength

[bananalive]

Originally Posted by kether1

Dom,

Is there a way to group all of a member's threads created when submitting via this forms modification?

For example:

Lets say a form can be submitted multiple times by a member.

When visiting the forum section where the form is published, is it possible to have all of 'Member A's' threads grouped together (like a sub-forum) and all of Member B's responses grouped together?

Like this:

FORUM where form creates a new thread.

Member A
----first submitted response,
----second submitted response,
----Third...

Member B
----First submitted response,

Member C
----first submitted response,
----second submitted response,

SO, when a member clicks on this forum, they see a list of sections titled with the username. And if they click that name, they see all of the threads that person created by submitting the form.

I hope I explained this where it can be understood.

Thanks!
Kether

You will need a separate modification for this which alters thread list.

[bananalive]

Originally Posted by SpaceStar

Superb. Working.

Just a simple question, maybe it's asked and answered before...

When a user has submitted the form, is there a way of validating the answered and show the result to user?

Thamks

By using quiz mode, php hooks or <vb:if condition=""> in custom output.

[Za4a Tuner]

Originally Posted by bananalive

1. Vbulletin AdminCP -> New Plugin
Hook location: newthread_form_start
Php code:

PHP Code:

if (in_array($forumid, array(1,2))) 
{ 
header( 'Location: http://www.youriste.com/forums/misc.php?do=form&fid=8' ) ; 
} 


This works fine, now the button "New Thread" roots to the form

but:

Originally Posted by bananalive

2. Add the following to the custom php question, do you get the right forumid (46) at the top of the form?

PHP Code:

print_r($form['forumid']); 


This won't work
The forum-id is correct (it's from my liveforum)
Can you give me a "step by step" instruction, what i have to do, that a dropdown-field with the prefixes of a specified forum will be shown?

The form should create a new thread in forum-id = 46, and the prefixes of this forum sould be listed in the form, cause they are required for a new thread!


kr Chris

[ascroft]

Hi there.

One thing I noted today, when the thread is moved to the correct forum, is that it doesn't update the 'header' type of information in the forum summary i.e. last post details, no. of threads/posts. The thread itself is there fine. Example is: http://www.shackchat.co.nz/listings/...lington-Region

I am thinking this needs more code to be added to the plugin in possibly?

Many thanks

Mark

Originally Posted by bananalive

Try this...

AdminCP -> Plugins & Products -> Add New Plugin

Hook Location

newthread_post_complete

Title

Move Thread created by easy forms

PHP Code

PHP Code:

if ($fid == 43)
{
$forumid = $q['forumid'];
$dataman =& datamanager_init('Thread', $vbulletin, ERRTYPE_ARRAY, 'threadpost'); 
$dataman->set_existing($threadinfo);  
$dataman->setr('forumid', $forumid);  
$dataman->pre_save(); 
if (count($dataman->errors) > 0) 
{ 
    foreach ($errors as $error)
    {
        $errorss .= $error. "<br />";
    }
    $errormessage = "Form failed to submit. The following error(s) occured: <br /> ".$errorss;
    eval(standard_error($errormessage));
} 
else 
{ 
$dataman->save();  
$foruminfo = fetch_foruminfo($forumid);
$threadinfo = fetch_threadinfo($newpost['threadid']);
mark_thread_read($threadinfo, $foruminfo, $vbulletin->userinfo['userid'], TIMENOW);    
}
} 


Plugin is active

Yes

Change 43 to appropriate form id.

[Darksome]

New to vB but slowly picking things up. I think I will find this mod extremely useful, but I'd like to know how I can add an 'insert image' button to the vbeditor question section, next to the email and insert link buttons for example.

Or indeed, can it be replaced with all the interface options as if posting a new thread such as; post icons and the tag box?

Cheers