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:

[Erwin]

Originally Posted by duncan99

I found out after the user submit the form, the redirection sends the user to the forum where the answer form will be there. In my case I set the answer form in the Admin forum which the user is not allow to have access. So how can I set the redirection to the forum I specify?

* duncan99 installed

You mean another forum? By default it php file redirects to the forum where the thread is made.

To specify an alternative forum -

Go down to near the end of the php file, replace $forum[forumid] in the $url line to the number of the user forum.

[duncan99]

Thank you, it works great.

[oldford]

Originally Posted by PKRWUD

This is how I did it...

In Forumdisplay template, find:

<a href="newthread.php?$session[sessionurl]do=newthread&amp;f=$foruminfo[forumid]">

And replace it with:

<a href="<if condition="$foruminfo['forumid'] == xx">form.php<else />newthread.php?$session[sessionurl]do=newthread&amp;f=$foruminfo[forumid]</if>">

Except you would sustitute your forum ID where it says xx. Works excellent.

Thanks for this. It works great.

Now can anyone tell me how that line should look if you want to have more than 1 forum? (example: forum A should use formA.php, forum B should use formB.php, etc.) Basically, how do you extend the "if condition" to work for more than 1 forumid?

[Merjawy]

Originally Posted by oldford

Thanks for this. It works great.

Now can anyone tell me how that line should look if you want to have more than 1 forum? (example: forum A should use formA.php, forum B should use formB.php, etc.) Basically, how do you extend the "if condition" to work for more than 1 forumid?

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost....8&postcount=11

[mOdEtWo]

I try to make the form reply to a thread, and I know I have given the right options (enabled, forumid, threadid). When the form is submitted, I get a mysql error:

mysql error: Table 'forums.post' doesn't exist
mysql error number: 1146

Is there something wrong with the post sql code?

PHP Code:

                $DB_site->query("
                        INSERT INTO " . TABLE_PREFIX . "post
                                (threadid, title, username, userid, dateline, pagetext, allowsmilie,
                                 showsignature, iconid, visible)
                        VALUES
                                ($thread[threadid], '".addslashes(htmlspecialchars($bbuserinfo[username]))." $formtitle',
                                 '" . addslashes($bbuserinfo['username']) . "', $bbuserinfo[userid], " . TIMENOW . ",
                                 '" . addslashes($formsend) . "', 1, 1,
                                 0, 1)
                "); 


[oldford]

Originally Posted by Merjawy

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost....8&postcount=11

I thought that was to insert one form result into two different forums at the same time? Maybe I'm wrong?

All I'm talking about is the redirect code when you click on "New Thread". I have different form.php files for each forum. I just need the redirect to understand that if it's forumid 123 then clicking on "New Thread" should redirect to form123.php. And if it's forumid 456 it should go to form456.php

[PKRWUD]

I'm very new to PHP, and I don't know that this is correct, but I believe this will work for you...

In Forumdisplay template, find:

<a href="newthread.php?$session[sessionurl]do=newthread&amp;f=$foruminfo[forumid]">

And replace it with this:

<a href="<if condition="$foruminfo['forumid'] == xx">form.php<elseif condition="$foruminfo['forumid'] == yy">form2.php<elseif condition="$foruminfo['forumid'] == zz">form3.php<else />newthread.php?$session[sessionurl]do=newthread&amp;f=$foruminfo[forumid]</if>">

xx is the forum ID for form.php, yy is the forum ID for form2.php, and zz is the forum ID for form3.php.

Back up your template first, but I believe this will work for you. If it doesn't, change the closing </if> tag to </endif>.

[oldford]

Thanks, but I get a parse error. I tried both </if> and </endif>

[PKRWUD]

Damn. Well, I'm sorry, I really thought that would do it. I'll see what I can find out.

[Isaiah33]

a nice feature to this would be to be able to customize everything in admincp