FORM to THREAD/ FORUM/ POLL/ PM/ EMAIL - CUSTOMIZABLE FORMS - Mod Apps, Orders, News.

FORM to THREAD/ FORUM/ POLL/ PM/ EMAIL - Totally CUSTOMIZABLE FORMS
Version 1.6 for vBulletin 3.x.x by Dr Erwin Loh

Features:

Ever wanted an online form that a user can fill out, which when submitted gets:

1. Posted into a new thread in a forum of your choice
2. Create a new poll in the new thread with options of your choice
3. Posted as a reply in an existing thread of your choice
4. PMed to you or someone else
5. Emailed to an email address you specify
6. Choose to redirect to the post, thread or forum, or a custom thank you message
7. Choose to redirect to editpost to upload attachments

Or any combination or all of the above?

Well, this is the hack for you!

You can use this for:

1) Moderator Applications
2) Quiz Submit Form which gets PMed to a moderator
3) Contact Form that goes to PM, email or thread
4) Guests to apply to be members
5) Report a Moderator form that goes as a PM to you
6) Guests can PM you for whatever reason
7) Order form to buy things
8) Donation form
9) News or Articles submissions that can go straight to a thread


Or anything you like - this hack is totally customizable via the PHP file.
Basically, this hack involves modifying 1 PHP file form.php (you add questions, options etc. in the PHP file itself), uploading it, and then adding 2 templates.

The beauty of this hack is that once you have added the 2 templates, to make a new form, all you need to do is copy the form.php and rename it to form2.php, edit the variables in the PHP file, and you have a totally new form!!! You do not need to touch the templates again.

Format of the form:

1. One main input question
2. 2 Radio buttons Choice questions
3. 3 Normal text input questions
4. 1 Long answer question

This is customizable via the PHP file.

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:

1. Add the 2 templates.

2. Edit form.php - the instructions are all inside the PHP file itself, in the top half. Follow the instructions carefully!

3. Upload form.php

Just link to form1.php eg. http://www.yourforum.com/forums/form.php

Done!

Use this hack to make as many forms as you like!

Enjoy!


Updates:

Version 1.1 - Option to force user to answer all questions.
Version 1.2 - Thread count and lastposter information now updated if form is sent to existing thread.
Version 1.3 - ADDED CREATE POLL OPTION!
Version 1.4 - Fixed bug with Form-to-thread code
Version 1.5 - Major update:
- fixed bug where thread count not updated when form to forum
- fixed default posting to allow smilies and sigs when reply to thread
- added templates to cache (saves 2 queries)
- added option to change thank you message
- added options to redirect to post, thread or forum when submit
Version 1.6 - Choose to redirect to editpost to upload attachments

Screenshot is an example of a form - the form title and questions are customizable:

[Holidazed]

Maybe I am misunderstanding you, but the templates you are referring to are included with the initial zip file. They are .txt files. Just make new templates with the same name as the .txt file (omit the .txt in the template name) and cut and paste the contects of the .txt file into the template.

[pjdaley]

Originally Posted by bitg

That is pretty self explanitory

Open up the form.php (or whatever you named it) file
Look for:

////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
//TITLE OF FORM (do not use quotation marks or you will get a parse error)
////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
$formtitle = "Generic Form";

Replace:

$formtitle = "Generic Form";

With:

$formtitle = "thread title goes here";

Thank for your help. What i meant was, after the person submits the form, and it creates the thread. It says Unregistered has submitted a form! or whatever you want it with right? Well, how can i make it so the info they put for the first answer can be the title. For example, Whats your name? Joe. It'll say Joe has submitted a form! :ermm: ?

[Holidazed]

the default values for the form show the username as the first part of the thread title. I am unsure why your are referring to "Unregistered". Maybe you should modify for form.php file to only allow groups other than "unregistered" to use the form.

[hpwilhelm]

Thanks Erwin! Great hack!

One (two) questions: If submited as newthread or threadreply the postcounts for the user and forums does not update. Would this be possible to add?

And one more thing: BB-code support? (Smilies and formating) Not essensial, but would be nice...

[hpwilhelm]

Originally Posted by hpwilhelm

Thanks Erwin! Great hack!

One (two) questions: If submited as newthread or threadreply the postcounts for the user and forums does not update. Would this be possible to add?

And one more thing: BB-code support? (Smilies and formating) Not essensial, but would be nice...

I need a way to format the thread output... :ermm: Anyone?

I would prefere CSS if thats posible.
My intention is a standardised output.

[Erwin]

Originally Posted by hpwilhelm

Thanks Erwin! Great hack!

One (two) questions: If submited as newthread or threadreply the postcounts for the user and forums does not update. Would this be possible to add?

And one more thing: BB-code support? (Smilies and formating) Not essensial, but would be nice...

Really? They should. Is this a problem with other users?

[hpwilhelm]

Originally Posted by Erwin

Really? They should. Is this a problem with other users?

The users postcount and the forums total postcount does not increase.

The forumsdisplay shows as when a "normal" post is made: last poster, date and postcount increase.

But the most important question for me right now is how I can format the new thread, with fonts, headers and paragraphs, not just plain text. How does vbulletin handle postformating? Now it just outputs the code as entered into both form and template... :ermm: Any ideas?

[hpwilhelm]

Originally Posted by hpwilhelm

But the most important question for me right now is how I can format the new thread, with fonts, headers and paragraphs, not just plain text. How does vbulletin handle postformating? Now it just outputs the code as entered into both form and template... :ermm: Any ideas?

Ok, I've enabled HTML for the destination forum, then I can format it like I want using XHTML/CSS, but the forum is open for discussions also, so I would prefere if HTML could remain "off" for everyone else besides when using the form...

[spence2]

Thank you for this wonderful hack!

[Erwin]

Originally Posted by hpwilhelm

The users postcount and the forums total postcount does not increase.

The forumsdisplay shows as when a "normal" post is made: last poster, date and postcount increase.

But the most important question for me right now is how I can format the new thread, with fonts, headers and paragraphs, not just plain text. How does vbulletin handle postformating? Now it just outputs the code as entered into both form and template... :ermm: Any ideas?

Yeah, you're right the user post count does not increase because this is not a post. I never added the query to add to the user's post count.