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

[Deepdog009]

FRANKTHETANK 2 dont worry dude I shall put forth the effort and maketh your form.

Hope this one helps...

[Deepdog009]

I say Milk Carton

I've been waiting for your update sir, and yes I will wait until you complete add-on hack before uploading more forms.

I've been getting many spammers and spiders submitting to forms. Your image verification would help greatly.


Looking foward to using it soon.

Heres one for the road... CSS HOLY GRAIL!

[TheMilkCarton]

Well I apologize.. I haven't exactly had time or patience to test it out on other form types like PM, email, etc. Since it would require a lot of time setting up each form, since they're not exactly user friendly.

I could release it as is, but then I might be getting a million PMs asking why it doesn't work.

[fotografik]

Originally Posted by blind-eddie

It already does that, you pick which thread it goes to. Then from there it can be replied on.

Thats where I am a bit confused - *I* do not want to direct it to any particular thread, rather the *member* clicks REPLY and used a form to compose his reply into the thread which he is currently in.

Here is the scenario.

a) Thread is created using forms template and posted in public - call it Thread X.
b) Members can clics REPLY in the thread and uses another form to post their replies into Thread X.

Thus, there are two forms used - one to CREATE the thread and one to REPLY within the thread.

The way that the feature is touted is that upon creation of the forms, hitting REPLY will add the reply to a thread (call it Thread A) which *I* specified during the forms creations eg all forms-based replies go into Thread A.

[TheMilkCarton]

You can use an if conditional to change the Reply button into newreply.php?do=FORM in that specific thread. Or at least you should be able to.

I did it in a specific forum to turn the New Thread button into newthread.php?do=FORM.

If your users are really smart though, they could edit the URL to submit a regular reply, bypassing the form.

And to answer your more general question, yes you can set the form up to do a New Reply instead of a New Thread.

[j_86]

Hi everyone, what is the status of this mod with the latest vBulletin 3.6? Is it fully functional?

[blind-eddie]

I have one of mine set up to a Thread in our private forum. This way my members can vote if a poll was added or post a reply. As the applicant doesnt have access to our private forums, I dont want them to see what was posted by my members if they get accepted. So, I set up that particular thread that when the thread is closed, it gets set to my admins forums. That way it is closed.

Originally Posted by fotografik

Thats where I am a bit confused - *I* do not want to direct it to any particular thread, rather the *member* clicks REPLY and used a form to compose his reply into the thread which he is currently in.

Here is the scenario.

a) Thread is created using forms template and posted in public - call it Thread X.
b) Members can clics REPLY in the thread and uses another form to post their replies into Thread X.

Thus, there are two forms used - one to CREATE the thread and one to REPLY within the thread.

The way that the feature is touted is that upon creation of the forms, hitting REPLY will add the reply to a thread (call it Thread A) which *I* specified during the forms creations eg all forms-based replies go into Thread A.

[CrashfAB]

Very interesting. So I have an introduction area where I like new users to post in. So can I use this hack for just that area then?

[AK47 Nemesis]

Hi, nice hack! But i have 1 question, is it possible to use more text areas like the top question? Because i want to use it for a tournament sign up form, but i need more text fields for that. Can someone help me?

[Deepdog009]

Originally Posted by AK47 Nemesis

Hi, nice hack! But i have 1 question, is it possible to use more text areas like the top question? Because i want to use it for a tournament sign up form, but i need more text fields for that. Can someone help me?

AK47 Nemesis take a look at pages 25, 26...
Form pics listed showing different types of forms that can be created using this hack.
ABE1 has a pic on the main instructions also.

I posted some downloads to help some with creating forms and understanding how to make advanced forms.

Good Luck