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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[Ov3rrun]

Can this work on Vbulletin 5?

[nhawk]

Originally Posted by Ov3rrun

Can this work on Vbulletin 5?

No it won't work on vB5.

No vB4 add-on will work with vB5. If one does, I'd be absolutely shocked.

[audzilla]

Out of nowhere, I've recently had a form that started giving the following error:

Form failed to submit. The following error(s) occured:
Please complete both the subject and message fields.

More specifics about behavior:
* I'm running 4.2.3 patch 1, php5.4, and the current version of Easy Forms
* If I fill out a form entirely with the word "test" it succeeds; if I use huge blocks of Lorem Ipsum it's fine; if I use "real" content (which is not in any way weird, but is pasted from google docs and potentially carrying formatting tags?) I get the error.
* There is no conflict in {q_*} tags between different forms, unless something has gotten scrambled on the back end and reassigned numbers around.
* This just started happening in the last week when my webhost depricated php5.3 and pushed us to 5.4.


Update: It chokes on copied characters from text editors such as fancy "smart quotes" or a condensed ellipses. It used to handle these gracefully but no longer!

Thank you!

Replacing the php file gives me this when I try to view a form (the form list looks as expected):

Database error in vBulletin 4.2.3:

Invalid SQL:
SELECT * FROM vb_formbits WHERE fid = 30 ORDER BY page ASC, displayorder ASC

But I'm sort of a novice, is there something else I should be doing?

[Ov3rrun]

Banalive, I have the same problem: The message you have entered is too short. Please lengthen your message to at least 10 characters.

Is there a fix? If I download your attach, it cause database error.

I see that is a bug with special characters: á é ñ etc... is there a way to fix? And If posible to translate the date field from: Thurdays -> Jueves, ????

Thanks for help.

[bananalive]

Originally Posted by Ov3rrun

Banalive, I have the same problem: The message you have entered is too short. Please lengthen your message to at least 10 characters.

Is there a fix? If I download your attach, it cause database error.

I see that is a bug with special characters: ? ? ? etc... is there a way to fix? And If posible to translate the date field from: Thurdays -> Jueves, ????

Thanks for help.

Are you using latest version?

[ne_one]

Originally Posted by bananalive

Are you using latest version?

I'm getting a database error with this build as well.

Anyone else?

[Trevor Hannant]

At some point, a site I now do some work on has had their forms stop working although no-one seems to know when! Site is running vB4.2.2 and have tried the latest forms.php and 4.4.0 update but still get following error when trying to open a form:

PHP Fatal error: Cannot use object of type mysqli_result as array in /var/www/vhosts/DOMAIN/httpdocs/forum/forms.php on line 1242, referer: http://DOMAIN/forum/forms.php?do=editform&fid=1&pg=7

Server running:

PHP 5.3.10-1ubuntu3.24
MySQL Version 5.5.50-0ubuntu0.12.04.1


Runs on another server I have OK - probably been looking at it too long and missing something obvious...

[Ov3rrun]

Originally Posted by bananalive

Are you using latest version?

Banalive, now its working. Now all the international characters are ok, all is working. Thanks a lot for that fix.

[Leifer]

GREAT JOB bananalive
EDIT : Latest version works fine thanks a lot

EDIT 2 : Same question

Originally Posted by HM666

I have a question. I have used this mod for quite some time on a site and we've had a form intact and it works just fine, but recently I was asked to change the options where the user who submitted the form can change the information submitted in the form they submitted by using the edit button in the thread the form started. I found this option: "Users Can Manage their own Form Results - All registered users can view/edit/delete their own form results saved to database." and I have ticked it to "Yes", but for those who have already submitted the form they still cannot edit the thread/post it made. I've tried to "Rebuild Thread Information" from the update area in the AdminCP but that did not seem to make it where the old thread can be edited by the person who submitted them. Am I just doomed to have Admins be PM'ed for changes here lol?

[ne_one]

Originally Posted by ne_one

I'm getting a database error with this build as well.

Anyone else?

I managed to resolve this issue by re-importing the XML file.

I noticed however that special characters will still trigger an error if they are used in the title.

As a quick fix, do a search for :

PHP Code:

$threadtitle = htmlspecialchars($threadtitle); 


And comment out the text:

PHP Code:

//$threadtitle = htmlspecialchars($threadtitle); 


This should allow any text to be used for the title and content.

Oh and... ΘωΘ