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

[zglows]

a want the popup that goes like: please write something
but i think this is java on the template, right?

[CMF]

Originally Posted by CMF

Thank you attroll and Brundlefly for you help

I now have the form working exactly as I would like it to, except for one thing:
How can I change the poll title?

Thanks again

Anyone?

[attroll]

Originally Posted by CMF

Anyone?

Can't you change it just like you do with any other poll in the forums.

[CMF]

Originally Posted by attroll

Can't you change it just like you do with any other poll in the forums.

I can, but what I mean is:
At the moment the poll question/title is automatically set as the title of the thread, I however would like for it to be automatically set to something else.

Thanks for getting back to me

[attroll]

I am confused as to why you want a poll in a form in the first place? If a person wants users to reply to polls and to vote in them then why aren?t they posting them in the forums? Why do they want to post them in a form?

Don?t take this wrong I am just asking.

[CMF]

No offence taken.

I am using the form for application purposes, I run a gaming clan.
If someone wants to join my clan the must apply - using the form.

When they post the form, the form gets posted into a private forum which only current clan members can view. They can then see the new application, comment on it, and vote in the poll whether or not they want to let the user join or not.

At the moment however, it's not entirely clear what the poll is there for so they all comment on the applications saying they want them in the clan or not, but nobody uses the poll lol

[jheigl]

I am having a lot of trouble customizing this to what I need. Can the coder or anyone else for that matter make it to what I need please? I will give you exactly what I need if anyone is willing to do it for me. Thanks!

[Brundlefly]

Originally Posted by CMF

No offence taken.

I am using the form for application purposes, I run a gaming clan.
If someone wants to join my clan the must apply - using the form.

When they post the form, the form gets posted into a private forum which only current clan members can view. They can then see the new application, comment on it, and vote in the poll whether or not they want to let the user join or not.

At the moment however, it's not entirely clear what the poll is there for so they all comment on the applications saying they want them in the clan or not, but nobody uses the poll lol

I'm using this hack for the exact same purpose in one of our applications. The way probably around your issue is to form the post title in a way that corresponds to the poll options. The poll title will be the same as the post title. It seems fluid in the way i've done it, example provided;

Post title = "Membership request from CMF - Sponsored by Brundlefly"
Poll option1 = "Yes, I support granting membership"
Poll option 2 - "No, I do not supporting granting membership"

[Grimbone]

In the code below. how would I go about sending a post to 2 different forums?

$formforumid = "13";

I am trying to get this to post to both a regular section of the forums and to a private section.

[snakeair]

[edit]==== Nevermind, i just un-installed and re-installed.

Works now. I must have deleted something by mistake on first try.