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:

[SaN-DeeP]

sounds interesting. i will give this a try now
[high]* SaN-DeeP is ready to install
[/high]

thnx for making it 3.0 complaint

Sandy...

[mmw]

Thanks for this
[high]* mmw installs[/high]

[Erwin]

Originally Posted by SaN-DeeP

sounds interesting. i will give this a try now
[high]* SaN-DeeP is ready to install
[/high]

thnx for making it 3.0 complaint

Sandy...

I've modified form.php just slightly to make the thank you page look nicer - please download and upload the new form.php if you have managed to download it before this post was made.

[Erwin]

In the vB2 version, you needed to install 3 templates. I've reduced it down to 2 now.

[pjdaley]

i will download this when i get home, and test it out, but im just wondering, can a guest fill out such any form, i see it creates a thread in a forum i can specify...but the question is can other members reply? like can they see it and ect? im just wondering...

[Erwin]

Originally Posted by pjdaley

i will download this when i get home, and test it out, but im just wondering, can a guest fill out such any form, i see it creates a thread in a forum i can specify...but the question is can other members reply? like can they see it and ect? im just wondering...

You can set which usergroup you want access to this form in the PHP file.

Whether members can reply depends on the forum permissions - nothing to do with this hack. This hack just does what I've described.

[insanctus]

Lmao title was so long I just had to look

[high]* insanctus will click install and play with it.[/high]

[KTBleeding]

Cool!

Is there anyway to make it so registered members have to have atleast 10 posts to fill out a certain form?

[Vivi Ornitier]

nice, been waitin for somethin like this. If we want the forum to create a new thread in certain forums, can it be done so it creates a new thread in 2 specified forums?? I just need clarification on that before i start installin