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:

[agiacosa]

Originally Posted by org

This is exactly the reason I needed to take the leap into converting an existing website (+12000 companies and +3000 active members) into vBulletin. Again thank you Erwin!

I am trying to use the redirect to edit post feature. I need the user tobe able to attach and excel spreadsheet when they respond and that is added as a post to an existing thread.

When I hit submit, I get an error: No Post Specified.

What is going wrong?

[Erwin]

Originally Posted by agiacosa

I am trying to use the redirect to edit post feature. I need the user tobe able to attach and excel spreadsheet when they respond and that is added as a post to an existing thread.

When I hit submit, I get an error: No Post Specified.

What is going wrong?

Not sure, as it obviously works for other people.... mmm... the postid is not being passed for some reason...

[agiacosa]

Originally Posted by Erwin

Not sure, as it obviously works for other people.... mmm... the postid is not being passed for some reason...

I have Dani's mod-rewrite hack. Could that be causing the problem?

[Erwin]

Originally Posted by agiacosa

I have Dani's mod-rewrite hack. Could that be causing the problem?

That's it.

[agiacosa]

Originally Posted by Erwin

That's it.

Great! I was afraid of that. :-(

[wynode]

*clicks install*

I was actually looking for a very simple form tool for something else.......and came across this.

Now I ran into some other problem on my forum and this is going to help resovle that problem.

Great work!

[gldtn]

Erwin,

I installed this hack and it works fine, but there is a couple of things I would like to do that I don't quite know how. So I was wondering if you or anyone here could share a bit of your knowledge w/ me.

First; I wanted to be able to let me users to set thier own title to the thread.
Second; I want the form to be executed only when someone click on newthread on a certain forum.

I have a basic idea on how this could be done, but yet don't know how, and for the second option I know I would probably have to edit my showthread template and add an if statement along with some php file editing, but that won't be a problem if someone can provide me the code.

Thanks a Lot!

[Erwin]

Originally Posted by gldtn

Erwin,

I installed this hack and it works fine, but there is a couple of things I would like to do that I don't quite know how. So I was wondering if you or anyone here could share a bit of your knowledge w/ me.

First; I wanted to be able to let me users to set thier own title to the thread.
Second; I want the form to be executed only when someone click on newthread on a certain forum.

I have a basic idea on how this could be done, but yet don't know how, and for the second option I know I would probably have to edit my showthread template and add an if statement along with some php file editing, but that won't be a problem if someone can provide me the code.

Thanks a Lot!

1. You need to edit the PHP file and replace the title variable with a form variable. Not hard to figure out if you take a look at the code itself.

2. That's just a template edit. Somewhere in this thread someone posted a way to do this already.

[datainternet]

Hi Erwin,

1. In the form.php - file there is an option called "REDIRECT OPTIONS:". There you can choose Option 0 to show a thank you message.

Now my question: Is it possibly to show this message AND redirect after some seconds to another page?

I need this for this hack by mtha: https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost....&postcount=131

Would be nice if you could help me .

MFG datainternet

[Erwin]

Originally Posted by datainternet

Hi Erwin,

1. In the form.php - file there is an option called "REDIRECT OPTIONS:". There you can choose Option 0 to show a thank you message.

Now my question: Is it possibly to show this message AND redirect after some seconds to another page?

I need this for this hack by mtha: https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost....&postcount=131

Would be nice if you could help me .

MFG datainternet

Anything is possible. You just add a redirect javascript to the template for the redirect I think.