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Form Hack · **Released**: 09-14-2006

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

Stryker412 · #**1222** 08-20-2008, 07:13 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by farplane dragon

Yeah, yeah, cool. Thanks for the help so far. I actually got the answer all problem fixed, it's just the "getting stuck on the thank you screen" I have to figure out.

What do you mean by this?

Daggerzz · #**1223** 08-20-2008, 08:13 PM

I am sure that this question has been asked. With over 80 pages, it is probably in there somewhere, but I have not found an exact match to my problem. So maybe someone can help me.

I want to call my copy of the hack in this way:

PHP Code:


			
/newthread.php?dp=myform&p=###

where ### is the post I want to reply to.

I can generate this link without problem. My form begins executing. I can echo to the screen for verification, the "p" variable, by accessing $_REQUEST['p'].

I want to set the variable $formreplythreadid to this "p" variable. I have tried various variations:

PHP Code:


			
$formreplythreadid = $_REQUEST['p'];

or this

PHP Code:


			
$x = $_REQUEST['p'];
$formreplythreadid = $x;

I also attempted to add a variable to the form like other user input variables, using
something like this:

PHP Code:


			
// Part 1
$vbulletin->input->clean_array_gpc('p', array(
'var1' => TYPE_STR,
'wheretogo' => TYPE_STR,
));

// Part 2
$var1= $vbulletin->GPC['var1'];
$wheretogo= $vbulletin->GPC['wheretogo'];

With the value defined in this way, I tried to assign to it in two different ways. First I tried to directly assign to it:

PHP Code:


			
$wheretogo = $_REQUEST['p'];

and lastly I tried to allow the user to input the value via the form input screen. This works so I know a variable will work. But I cant figure out how to have the program assign the variable

In all cases, I could echo the value to the screen with success; however, in all cases when I tried to assign my variables value to $formreplythreadid, the value seems to be empty.

How can I set the value $formreplythreadid to a value that is generated at runtime?

farplane dragon · #**1224** 08-20-2008, 09:14 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Stryker412

What do you mean by this?

Normally, I'd see the thank you screen then get redirected back to forumhome I believe. Now, I see the thank you screen and that's it, it doesn't redirect to anywhere.

skulldred · #**1225** 08-20-2008, 09:54 PM

Hi Daggerzz i have the same problem but with threads... I guess that is the solution... :

//ENABLE FORM TO REPLY TO EXISTING THREAD - 1 = yes, 0 = no
$formreply = "1";
if ($dropdownanswer1 == 'Mage'){
$formreplythreadid = "43";}
if ($dropdownanswer1 == 'Warlock'){
$formreplythreadid = "34";}
if ($dropdownanswer1 == 'Warrior'){
$formreplythreadid = "41";}
if ($dropdownanswer1 == 'Rogue'){
$formreplythreadid = "42";}
if ($dropdownanswer1 == 'Priest'){
$formreplythreadid = "40";}
if ($dropdownanswer1 == 'Hunter'){
$formreplythreadid = "46";}
if ($dropdownanswer1 == 'Paladin'){
$formreplythreadid = "45";}
if ($dropdownanswer1 == 'Shaman'){
$formreplythreadid = "44";}
//EXISTING THREAD ID FOR FORM TO REPLY IN

Can you explain me where you have added this code please? $x = $_REQUEST['p'];

Daggerzz · #**1226** 08-20-2008, 11:50 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by

Can you explain me where you have added this code please? $x = $_REQUEST['p'

;

I put this in the form hack right after I defined the variables. i know this is teh right value because i can make it display the number. The problem is if iIuse that as a variable for $formreplythreadid it gives me an error. I need to be able to post this to any number of threads so a drop down box would not work.

Stryker412 · #**1227** 08-22-2008, 09:05 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by farplane dragon

Normally, I'd see the thank you screen then get redirected back to forumhome I believe. Now, I see the thank you screen and that's it, it doesn't redirect to anywhere.

That's how it is on mine too, it never redirected. I would like to know if you find out how.

Also, I'd like to beg/plead one more last time if someone can help me set up a birthday question so the three drop down menus are side by side on the same line.

BlueBulletRL · #**1228** 08-24-2008, 03:43 PM

Also I will plead again someone please help me!

cragtay · #**1229** 08-25-2008, 07:20 AM

I make my question in a quote because after posted this, I saw Daggerzz's post. The problem is similar. However, I typed my question so I don't want to delete it :">

Quote:

For example, I have 2 categories: A and B, and in each category, there are 3 forums.
The forum ids are 2, 4, 6 (3 forums in category A) and 5, 7, 9 (3 forums in category B).

I want to design 2 forms (newA and newB) for each category. 3 forums in each category will use a common form.

http://mydomain.com/newthread.php?do=newA&f=2
http://mydomain.com/newthread.php?do=newA&f=4
http://mydomain.com/newthread.php?do=newA&f=6

http://mydomain.com/newthread.php?do=newB&f=5
http://mydomain.com/newthread.php?do=newB&f=7
http://mydomain.com/newthread.php?do=newB&f=9

How can I do that?

I think that I should get the forumid from the URL to put into the variable $formforumid in the form template (newA or newB). Is it possible?
If I don't make that number a variable, then I have to make 3 separate forms, whose the contents are same, but names are different, for each category. In the example, there are only 6 forums. However, in practically, there may have more forums that 6. Make seperate form for each forum is really not effective way.

Could someone help me?

Stryker412 · #**1230** 08-25-2008, 12:55 PM

Thanks to Abe I was able to get the triple drop down question working.

Vackrick · #**1231** 08-26-2008, 02:25 AM

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_VARIABLE in /home/shawnyue/public_html/forum/newthread.php(74) : eval()'d code on line 191

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