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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[sweetguy2004]

very interesting i will sure install this thanks for your efforts

[Bobbo]

What would be an easy way to display custom variable data in a form email body. For example, I have a form, the user fills it out and clicks submit. The contents of that form get emailed to someone else. Now, in the Before Submit hook, I have some logic that sets a variable based on how the user filled out the form. I'd like the contents of that variable to be displayed in the body of the email.

The variable is completely custom and based on data returning from a SQL dB lookup.

Any ideas? Geesh, I love this mod. It offers so much flexibility!

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Figured this out. I simply appended my information to $formoutput, ie, $formoutput .= "My variable: " .$row[variable];
This works fine. I would think there is a way to make it a template variable so I could then use something like {my_variable}, but suspect it might take a lot more work.
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Bobbo

[rtrm]

This is a great mod, thanks very much for all your hard work on it.

I have a small issue. When including an entered value for thread title, I can't include the value of the first field. On another form the values of the 2nd and 3rd field are included as {q_3} and {q_4}, so I figured I should use {q_0}, but that isn't recognized and the code is displayed. I tried {q_1}, but that produces nothing.

[vilhiem]

is there any way to do CALCULATIONS on the fields so when it's appended to the table, a number is generated in a field based on the values entered in other fields ...?

[Reycer]

This is one awesome mod...I've been using it since it's debut quite a while back.

Question: I have a situation to where I need to have files to be uploaded. So I direct the form to post into a forum. Problem is, I don't want that particular forum to be seen be anyone but myself, so I set the forum permissions so that only I can see it. This creates a problem with the attachments, it will not allow users to then upload attachments, when that forum is hidden. I can go in and make it so that they can make posts in in, but it is still hidden, and I can turn on that they can upload attachments, but if they can't view the forum, then they can't upload attachments in the form.

I have considered making this forum an "Admin Only" forum, and making so they can't get into it, but I would just rather have it not seen at all. Anyway to make this work?

[HolyKiller]

Originally Posted by rtrm

This is a great mod, thanks very much for all your hard work on it.

I have a small issue. When including an entered value for thread title, I can't include the value of the first field. On another form the values of the 2nd and 3rd field are included as {q_3} and {q_4}, so I figured I should use {q_0}, but that isn't recognized and the code is displayed. I tried {q_1}, but that produces nothing.

You need to use unique ID of that question, not his "position" in that specific form. So if you have question like this:

1. Favorite color _______ (Single Line Text Field) #44 ______ 10

Simply use {q_44} for thread title

[rtrm]

Originally Posted by HolyKiller

You need to use unique ID of that question, not his "position" in that specific form. So if you have question like this:

1. Favorite color _______ (Single Line Text Field) #44 ______ 10

Simply use {q_44} for thread title

Ah! Obvious really. Thanks very much.

[Cedric_FP]

Using the following code:

$forumid2 = 31;
if ($complete)
    {
        if (!$vbulletin->userinfo['userid'])
        {
            $vbulletin->input->clean_array_gpc('p', array(
                'humanverify' => TYPE_ARRAY,
            ));
            $newpost['humanverify'] = $vbulletin->GPC['humanverify'];
        }
        require_once(DIR . '/includes/functions_editor.php');
        require_once(DIR . '/includes/functions_bigthree.php');
        require_once('./includes/class_dm.php');
        require_once('./includes/class_dm_threadpost.php'); 
        require_once('./includes/functions_databuild.php');
        if (!$closed)
        {
            $open = 1;
        }
        else
        {
            $open = 0;
        }
        $threaddm = new vB_DataManager_Thread_FirstPost($vbulletin, ERRTYPE_STANDARD);
        /*$foruminfo = fetch_foruminfo($forumid);*/
        $threaddm->set_info('forum',$foruminfo);
        $threaddm->set_info('user', $vbulletin->userinfo);
        $threaddm->set('forumid', $forumid2);
        $threaddm->set('userid', $vbulletin->userinfo['userid']);
        $threaddm->set('title', $threadtitle);
        $threaddm->set('pagetext', $formoutput); 
        $allow_smilie = '1';
        $visible = '1';
        $threaddm->set('open', $open);
        if ($form[prefixid])
        {
            $threaddm->set('prefixid', $form[prefixid]); 
        }
        if ($form[iconid])
        {
            $threaddm->set('iconid', $iconid); 
        }
        $threaddm->set('allowsmilie', $allow_smilie);
        $threaddm->set('visible', $visible);
        $threaddm->pre_save();
        $threadid = $threaddm->save();
        unset($threaddm);
        build_thread_counters($threadid);
        build_forum_counters($forumid);  
        if (!empty($threaddm->errors))
        {
            $errorss .= $threaddm->errors;
            $errormessage = "Form failed to submit. The following error(s) occured: <br /> ".$errorss;
            eval(standard_error($errormessage));
        }
        $threadinfo = fetch_threadinfo($threadid);
        $newpost['postid'] = $threadinfo['firstpostid'];
        mark_thread_read($threadinfo, $foruminfo, $vbulletin->userinfo['userid'], TIMENOW);
        /*($hook = vBulletinHook::fetch_hook('newthread_post_complete')) ? eval($hook) : false;*/
        if ($form[poll] == 1)
        {
            $question = $form[pollquestion];
            $threadinfo = verify_id('thread', $threadid, 0, 1);
            $polloptions = count($polloption);
            $vbulletin->GPC['options'] = $polloption;
            $counter = 0;
            $optioncount = 0;
            $badoption = '';
            while ($counter++ < $polloptions)
            {
                if ($vbulletin->options['maxpolllength'] AND vbstrlen($vbulletin->GPC['options']["$counter"]) > $vbulletin->options['maxpolllength'])
                {
                    $badoption .= iif($badoption, ', ') . $counter;
                }
                if (!empty($vbulletin->GPC['options']["$counter"]))
                {
                    $optioncount++;
                }
            }
            $poll = datamanager_init('Poll', $vbulletin, ERRTYPE_STANDARD);
            $counter = 0;
            while ($counter++ < $polloptions)
            {
                if ($vbulletin->GPC['options']["$counter"] != '')
                {
                    $poll->set_option($vbulletin->GPC['options']["$counter"]);
                }
            }
            $poll->set('question', $question);
            $poll->set('dateline', TIMENOW);
            $poll->set('active', '1');
            $poll->set('public', $form['publicpoll']);
            $poll->set('multiple', $form['multiplepoll']);
            $pollid = $poll->save();
            $threadman = datamanager_init('Thread', $vbulletin, ERRTYPE_STANDARD, 'threadpost');
            $threadman->set_existing($threadinfo);
            $threadman->set('pollid', $pollid);
            $threadman->save();
        }
        if ($form[submitmessage])
        {
            $errormessage = $form[submitmessage];
        }
        else
        {
            $errormessage = "Form was submitted successfully. Click <a href=\"showthread.php?" . $vbulletin->session->vars['sessionurl'] . "p=" . $newpost[postid] . "#post" . $newpost[postid] . "\">here</a> to view the thread.";
        }
    }

How would I also create replies to the thread created? The replies don't have to contain form data, they are just standard replies such as "Reserved".

Thanks.

[bananalive]

Originally Posted by vilhiem

is there any way to do CALCULATIONS on the fields so when it's appended to the table, a number is generated in a field based on the values entered in other fields ...?

Form Hook: Before Submit:

PHP Code:

$qo[4] = $qo[4]+1;
$q[4] = $q[4]+1; 


4 is the question hash

[bananalive]

Originally Posted by riskofficer

when editing form result, in date field in year cell -- entrie like "2010" is fine, but years 2009, 2008 are shown as "209, 208"

in excel export everything fine

Fixed in attached file