New Posting Features - Form Hack

Form Hack 4.1

Features:

Ever wanted an online form that a user can fill out, which when submitted gets:

• Posted into a new thread in a forum of your choice
• Create a new poll in the new thread with options of your choice
• Posted as a reply in an existing thread of your choice
• PMed to you or someone else
• Emailed to an email address you specify
• Choose to redirect to the post, thread or forum, or a custom thank you message
• Choose to redirect to edit post
• See a preview before they submit

Or any combination or all of the above?

Well, this is the hack for you!

You can use this for:

• Moderator Applications
• Quiz Submit Form which gets PMed to a moderator
• Contact Form that goes to PM, email or thread
• Guests to apply to be members
• Report a Moderator form that goes as a PM to you
• Guests can PM you for whatever reason
• Order form to buy things
• Donation form
• News or Articles submissions that can go straight to a thread

Or anything you like - this hack is totally customizable via the AdminCP.

The beauty of this hack is that once you install this hack, to make a new form all you need to do is copy the main hook, rename it to whatever you want, edit the variables in the hook, and you have a totally new form!!! You do not need to touch the templates again, but can always create new ones and use different templates for different forms.

Format of the form:

• One main input question
• 3 Radio buttons Choice questions
• 3 Normal text input questions
• 1 Drop down menu
• 3 Check boxes
• 1 Long answer question
• 1 VB message editor text box question
• Upload attachments

This is customizable via the hook.

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:

• Import the XML into products. (admin cp -> Plug-in System -> Manage Products -> Add/Import Product)
• Edit the main plug-in - the instructions are all inside the hook itself, in the top half. Follow the instructions carefully!
• To get to the form, go to: /newthread.php?do=form (change "form" to the name of your form if you have few)

Done!

Use this hack to make as many forms as you like!

Enjoy!

Updates:

Version 4.0: (09/15/2006)

• Ported over for vb3.6
• Send to multiple emails.
• Send multiple PMs.
• Parse emails for BBCode
• And finally, ATTACHMENTS!

Version 4.1: (04/24/2008)

• Fixed for vb 3.6.10
• Small bug fixed.
• List of the 2 quick edits are in the zip file so you don't have to start making a form from scratch.

MAKE SURE YOU CLICK INSTALL!
You will get an email when a new version is released.

Abe1 with rights from Dr Erwin Loh

[redraider]

In vbulletin 3.7x ...there is a new features to allow for thread "tagging" ...is there a way to have user input tags as a part of the form?

[Smiry Kin's]

wtf, why is this so basic? what happen to the old version where you could add forms via ACP? im sure u cud..

[Smiry Kin's]

anyone got this to intergrate with vbadvanced? cant seem to do it?..

i cant get it to work. its intalled it comes up, but i tested it, i dont recieve email/pm/thread

[Deepdog009]

Originally Posted by Attitude5ire

Not sure if this was asked before did a search and saw vague posts.
Is there any tweaks to do by which when it sends out email.
We can get the FROM: address to be email address of Username which sent the form.

Any help regarding this would be helpful.

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Attitude5ire,,,
I haven't tryed messing with the email yet,,, if I ever get lots of free time,,, I will look at email functions... ABE1 can help you better...



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redraider,,,
The way this mod is setup,,, Its not easy making it more easy...
Believe me i've played with it a bit and afterwards,,, I've had to take a long break away to recoup brain cells... YES it could be done,,, but it ain't going to be easy brother...


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Smiry Kin's,,,
This mod works ok...

Can you upload your form in TXT mode?
I will help U get er up and rolling if I can...

[Attitude5ire]

Thnx for reply Deep, ill scratch around stuff and see anythin i can come up with.. I did find the Vbmail function and the variables used, it uses the generic support email of board in FROM field. i jus need to change it as make it parse the senders email field.
vbmail function is $from='email'. Thnx for followup though.. not sure if ABE1 is supportin this thread.. but maybe he can post a better solution.

[Sofia]

Thanks a lot ! Great hack !!

Deepdog009 ->
I've a problem :

I alter the answer template and I added some BBcode.

Example :
[.B]$answer1[./B]


But I can't use BBcode around variable. I just want to have answer bold.

Thank you for your help

[ccplim]

Originally Posted by Sofia

Thanks a lot ! Great hack !!

Deepdog009 ->
I've a problem :

I alter the answer template and I added some BBcode.

Example :
[.B]$answer1[./B]


But I can't use BBcode around variable. I just want to have answer bold.

Thank you for your help

Hi Sofia,

Try putting a space just before and after $answer1 as shown in my example given below. It works for me

[.B] $answer1 [./B]

[Sofia]

Originally Posted by ccplim

Hi Sofia,

Try putting a space just before and after $answer1 as shown in my example given below. It works for me

[.B] $answer1 [./B]

Yeahhhh !!!

It works now Thanks a lot, ccplim

[ccplim]

Originally Posted by Sofia

Yeahhhh !!!

It works now Thanks a lot, ccplim

You are welcome! With that solution given to you, it actually resolved another similar question that I have raised to deepdog009 two days back.

Man.... I have been messing with html and ajax for my form that I completely forgot about the bb codes

[Smiry Kin's]

anyone edited theres to look nicer lay-out???

also how do i intergate this into vbadvanced... i cant find away
regards