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

[thalamus]

@optrex: you have a PM - sorry, just noticed my unread PMs

[carpzone]

I think i'm the first whit another problem,

I installed this hack with no issue, BUT i'm not able to acces the form itself.

It always redirect me to the submit calender form, that came original with vb.

I'f i change the hook location from newthread >> newreply , thne i'm able to view the form
but after pushing the submit button. Again i 'l be redirected to the submit event to calender form.

Sombody nows whats the problem on this one ?

[nirav]

im getting Internal Server Error when try to edit hook in vb admincp!!!

any ideas?

[blind-eddie]

Not sure if many of you who own your own domain, but, within your host site cpanel, if they offer fantastico auto-installs, click on it, ...scroll down, and you will see
php form generator...works like a charm!!!! You can make forms anyway you want. Look into it.....

[amac64]

Please explain where to edit the hook and both templates? I have the same problem, I added fields and field names, but I get 3 lines of buttons before my first question.

Originally Posted by |oR|Greg

You have to edit the hook, and both templates in order to make it work.

[dutchbb]

Originally Posted by optrex

it does work with vbseo. make sure you have it posting to a valid forum id (have you edited the plugin?)

Of course I've edited the plugin and there is a valid ID. It always worked, I have used it for months without problems now suddenly it stopped working. I submit the review and it just isn't posted. This is the URL when the form is submitted: /showthread.php?t=

[ravencr]

Does anyone know if this mod can be incorporated into the following hacks to allow a person to post a new event using a custom designed form:

http://www.vbulletin.org:80/forum/sh...light=calendar

http://www.vbulletin.org:80/forum/sh...light=calendar

http://www.vbulletin.org:80/forum/sh...light=calendar

If not, is it possible to do? If so, anyone interested in doing it for cash?

Chris

[orth]

Very nice, we'll be using this to process character submissions to play in our gameworld.

[manofphat]

Is their anyway to change it so the permissions check doesn't just check the user's primary usergroup and checks the secondary ones as well?

Thanks

[gamma912]

Will this work for say a job website - people can submit their jobs or classifieds using this form and then it will go to a thread?

What about uploading of resumes?