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:

[Amavisca]

Hi !
is there anybody here can help me out ? On the form.php
//QUESTION 3 (do not use quotation marks or you will get a parse error)
$question3 = "What is your website?";
$explain3 = "Please enter your URL here.";

Can u add some code to check if the link input is correct/exist when member enter info? Some of my member just enter link either not working or wrong fomart.

[Spinball]

Originally Posted by Amavisca

Hi !
is there anybody here can help me out ? On the form.php
//QUESTION 3 (do not use quotation marks or you will get a parse error)
$question3 = "What is your website?";
$explain3 = "Please enter your URL here.";

Can u add some code to check if the link input is correct/exist when member enter info? Some of my member just enter link either not working or wrong fomart.

You could take a look at the code used in Andy's links and files hack.

[Amavisca]

Originally Posted by Spinball

You could take a look at the code used in Andy's links and files hack.

Im pretty noob when it comes to code and stuff, can u help me out ???

[kvnband]

Any way to create a drop down menu with this script? Or Checkboxes? It really is a great thing, but I need some more options. If I've missed something, please let me know.

[Hexemer]

Originally Posted by Erwin

1. You can change the thread title within the code - look at the code and you can work it out.

I have changed the title to

PHP Code:

 $formtitle = "$normalquestion2"; 


but it doesn't work. The Board shows my username but not the data of "$normalquestion2" in the new thread. What do I wrong? :ermm:

[Jolten]

Hi Dr. Erwin,

Wonderful hack. I've been using it for some time.

I was wondering if you could possibly help me pass a variable through the form?

I've set the form to open in a popup window with no title/scroll/tool bars. It gets filled out and then posted to a forum and emailed. It works wonderfully. I'd like to pass a variable from the link to the forum, through to the forum answers. I've added ?id=$var&cad=$var to the link.. and used the $_GET commands in form.php to pull them, then applied them to a new variable

e.g:

$id=$_GET['id'];
$cat=$_GET['cat'];
$link="http://www.domain.com?id=".$id."&cat=".$cat;

Then I've added $link to the formanswers template.

$link gets parsed and works, but the $id and $cat variables are not being set.

Is this possibly due to the lack of an address bar in the window where the form displays?

any help would be appreciated. thanks

[AlienSector]

Nice work, Erwin . I've integrated this with a new project of mine and although it has been cut down a great deal (coding wise, as I neeed only the Form-to-PM), it provided a great starting point on what I was unable to do myself at the time.

The only addition I would like to see is to be able to add HTML or BBCode, though doing so proved to be unsuccessful it seems. Perhaps I am overlooking something, though is there a way around this?

[scoheb]

Hi,

I installed your hack and it is working wonderfully.

I use the form to reply to thread feature and it seems that the search index is not getting updated.

Is anyone having this problem?

Thanks,

SH

[ChrisBaktis]

Originally Posted by scoheb

Hi,

I installed your hack and it is working wonderfully.

I use the form to reply to thread feature and it seems that the search index is not getting updated.

Is anyone having this problem?

Thanks,

SH

I get this same problem - seems will only be included in a search if someone replies to the thread.

Chris

[Erwin]

Originally Posted by ChrisBaktis

I get this same problem - seems will only be included in a search if someone replies to the thread.

Chris

I don't use the searchindex so I never had to add it as I use the mysql fulltext index.

When I find time I may add the option to update searchindex.