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

[zafrir]

Can I use the hack to creat a vbulletin.org style threads?

I want to enable a specific usergroup to use the form for the first post of a thread (post a software review in my case in a predefined format) and then enable all other users to reply to that post.

How the edit post is done?? will I be able to use the form to edit posts done with the form.

[The-Ensemble]

Oh and I want to remove the toolbar and stuff from around the message area how would I do that? Because I can't see it anywhere where it says to do that. . .

[Limerick]

Originally Posted by Limerick

Hello Abe,

Thank you very much for your hack which will be useful for many of us.

I'd like to know if your hack could be used in a way I've described here, and what changes would it need ?

Note that what I described there was just an idea, but your design seems to be as convenient.

Ok I've installed the hack so I guess it would be possible to reach my goal.
Unfortunately, I think it would be to hard for me.

But, most of all, it would need, IMHO, just one improvement.

It should be possible to call this hack from an existing thread with a special button like "Post Reply" or "New Thread", which could be named "Quote a received e-mail"

[Spinball]

Oh god! Upgraded forum to 3.6.1 and now getting this error when posting the form:
Warning: Cannot use a scalar value as an array in /incoudes/functions_newpost on line 352

[The-Ensemble]

what does it say on 352 of that file?

[R.Caldwell]

Originally Posted by camuca

Hi, this is a very good work.

How would I implement a drop down box that would show list of the forums and allow user to post the form to.

//FORUM TO POST NEW THREAD IN
//You CAN make this number a variable. You can have a drop down menu or in the link like do=form&f=1. Make sure you add it the variables list.
$formforumid = "5";


It will be something like $formforumid = Dropdown code that shows all the forums which are then converted to ids, I guess

Any suggestions how this can be implemented

I could use some help with this section of the form as well.

[Spinball]

Originally Posted by The-Ensemble

what does it say on 352 of that file?

($hook = vBulletinHook::fetch_hook('newpost_process')) ? eval($hook) : false;

[Abe1]

Originally Posted by Spinball

Hi Abe,
I have modified the form to allow the attachements, and that works (in that it allows me to add attachments). I have also re-modified the formanswers template from the original, although I don't see any reference to attachments in that.
No attachments are appearing in the preview. What am I doing wrong, please?

Attachments dont show up on the preview but are still there when you click preview.

[ctrl-alt-del]

What an excellent hack!! I'll need to install this and start testing. Thanks!!

[The-Ensemble]

Originally Posted by Spinball

($hook = vBulletinHook::fetch_hook('newpost_process')) ? eval($hook) : false;

Hopefully the coder will know whats wrong with this, because I don't sorry

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Has their been any idea how any of these can be done?

Originally Posted by The-Ensemble

ETA (again): How would I change the navbar in php? I want it so it says
board name - usercp - usercp page - form

Does this (the questions etc.) have to be done in php? can't it be done in the template?

Also How would I make the box's bigger? I've tried in the templates and it doesnt change, how would I do it in php?

any idea?

Thanks