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Form Hack · **Released**: 09-14-2006

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

timetunnel · #**172** 11-15-2006, 08:39 PM

Hello.

Where is new form field data stored if the database is unaltered?

Thanks in advance.

Abe1 · #**173** 11-15-2006, 11:43 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by timetunnel

Hello.

Where is new form field data stored if the database is unaltered?

Thanks in advance.

Plug-in and template.

timetunnel · #**174** 11-16-2006, 03:50 AM

Thanks for your reply.

Let me ask it another way...

what I mean is, when the data from the new form fields is submitted, where does that data go if the database is not revised to store that data -- to a flat file?

Thanks again, in advance.

Abe1 · #**175** 11-16-2006, 04:15 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by timetunnel

Thanks for your reply.

Let me ask it another way...

what I mean is, when the data from the new form fields is submitted, where does that data go if the database is not revised to store that data -- to a flat file?

Thanks again, in advance.

Of course it goes into the database.

timetunnel · #**176** 11-16-2006, 05:02 AM

Thanks again for your reply.

I guess I somehow overlooked finding 'how' the fields were added to the database when I looked at the xml file.

I'm still learning this stuff...

Thanks.

mkinnov8 · #**177** 11-16-2006, 01:08 PM

thanks to ChrisBaktis for having the problems he was having, and to those who helped solve it, been having exactly the same issue, and its now fixed from reading this thread. Thanks to the original author, but you have to expect questions with every release.

Mirage Guardian · #**178** 11-16-2006, 02:54 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Mirage Guardian

after installing, I got a database error when I call "newthread.php?do=form"

Quote:

Database error in vBulletin 3.6.1:

Invalid SQL:
SELECT * FROM forumpermission
WHERE ( forumid IN() AND usergroupid IN (6)) AND
(maxthread=0 AND perhour=0);

MySQL Error : You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near ') AND usergroupid IN (6)) AND
(maxthread=0 AND perhour=0)' at line 2
Error Number : 1064

The normal "newthread.php" syntax is:
http://my/forum/path/newthread.php?do=newthread&f=2
and when i call "newthread.php?do=form&f=2", the form start, but never submit and give the same database error.

What shall i do?

Roms · #**179** 11-16-2006, 10:06 PM

Thanks Abe, you're awesome.

Glynn58 · #**180** 11-22-2006, 09:37 AM

I need a very simple form to email answers to the questions.

Can I make this auto complete the users username and email address and include this in the email?

Like the standard Vbulletin contact us form does.

Many thanks

steven s · #**181** 11-23-2006, 04:16 PM

Great mod. But then again, so was the 3.5 version.

I'm having two problems.
I am unable to send to multiple email addresses.
The two addresses are separated with a ;. Only one is sent.
Version 3.5 worked with multiple addresses using a ,.
Both versions take a long time to send copy of the form to the email addresses.

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