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:

[jschlosser]

WOW kvnband, many many thax. i try to change this first.

u know about the search function ???

it's very hard for my to explain all probs in english but i try.

would be wonderful, when someone could't change this bug for the search.

greets sascha

ps. many many many many thanks goes to kvnband !!!!!!!

[kvnband]

Originally Posted by jschlosser

WOW kvnband, many many thax. i try to change this first.

u know about the search function ???


it's very hard for my to explain all probs in english but i try.


would be wonderful, when someone could't change this bug for the search.

greets sascha

ps. many many many many thanks goes to kvnband !!!!!!!

I'm sorry, but I have never looked into the search problem (my form created threads are auto pruned after 30 days of inactivity, so there is no reason to bother indexing them).
Kevin

[jschlosser]

hi, ok thats right. i must delete alle the threads also after 30 days. how i can do that automatically.

but i need very urgent the same like you. everybody who make a new thread with this form must write a title of the thread. can u help me with this ??

with the code changes above every thread looks like " THREAD TITLE HERE"

thanks in advance.

greets sascha

[kvnband]

Originally Posted by jschlosser

hi, ok thats right. i must delete alle the threads also after 30 days. how i can do that automatically.

but i need very urgent the same like you. everybody who make a new thread with this form must write a title of the thread. can u help me with this ??

with the code changes above every thread looks like " THREAD TITLE HERE"

thanks in advance.

greets sascha

I sent you a PM. You must create an input box in your form callled $threadtitle or something similar. Then put $threadtitle (or whatever you called it) in replacement of 'YOUR THREAD TITLE HERE'
Kevin

[kvnband]

Also, to auto prune threads

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthrea...ght=auto+prune

[Antivirus]

I installed this mod into our vBulliten, and everything works great, however even though we uploaded each template into the two different styles we have, for some reason the styles keep reverting back to default when either loading the form or submitting the form.

Is anyone else having this problem with this mod on their boards whom have custom styles? We could just be experiencing something goofed up in a template on the custom styler somewhere.

[Cyricx]

Any plans to port this hack over to 3.5?

[Abe1]

Originally Posted by Cyricx

Any plans to port this hack over to 3.5?

I sent a PM to Erwin asking about if he minding if I worked on this hack for vb3.5. I never got a reply. I'm going to PM him again.

[azinwood]

just installed in our auto for sale section. works great.

thx!

[Abe1]

OK guys, thaks to Erwin permission, I have ported the hack over to vb3.5. https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=93970