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

[p1a6u3]

NM I got it.....i need to just go to bed now lool

[attroll]

It is OK, I have been there an done that too.

[p1a6u3]

Ok attroll i am gonna need your expertise now....ok so heres what i got....form hack is done and functioning.....the way i want it done now is to create another form, pretty easy for me now...except that i want a form for each discussion forum i have....so one form per forum...how in the hell would i be able to accomplish this? I have added the "else /" conditional to check forum against form, which in turn changes the new thread link to the form link (thanks to D3fuse Here ).....but this is done in FORUMDISPLAY template....hope you understand here....got any ideas?

[attroll]

Originally Posted by p1a6u3

Ok attroll i am gonna need your expertise now....ok so heres what i got....form hack is done and functioning.....the way i want it done now is to create another form, pretty easy for me now...except that i want a form for each discussion forum i have....so one form per forum...how in the hell would i be able to accomplish this? I have added the "else /" conditional to check forum against form, which in turn changes the new thread link to the form link (thanks to D3fuse Here ).....but this is done in FORUMDISPLAY template....hope you understand here....got any ideas?

I have never had more then two forms in use at once. You may want to read this post here as someone else mentioned having big problems with running to many forms. Read post #743 in this thread.

There is another post about using forms for individual forums by someone else here in this thread also. You may want to read this post #813 and contact this individual and see how he did it. Sorry I can not help with this one.

[p1a6u3]

TY attroll! Appreciate you answering me and helping support...and thx for the posts! greatly appreciated ;-) BTW, you are doing a great job here supporting...ive read alot in this thread, id say every page to be honest....and ive seen you supporting...awesome! this is what forum boards/communities are about!...thx again!

[attroll]

Originally Posted by p1a6u3

TY attroll! Appreciate you answering me and helping support...and thx for the posts! greatly appreciated ;-) BTW, you are doing a great job here supporting...ive read alot in this thread, id say every page to be honest....and ive seen you supporting...awesome! this is what forum boards/communities are about!...thx again!

Thank you for your complaments. Sometimes I feel like I should take over this hack because the developer never seems to come to this thread anymore.

[skierjosh]

I have a quick question if anyone knows how to solve this, we're using a combo box to find out what games people play(5 options total). We have it set to make a thread when the form is filled out, the options people selected from this question are listed right after each other and it's hard to see where one starts and the other left off. Is it possible to insert a comma after each checked item that's displayed to make it easier to read?

[RedGTiVR6]

Quick question regarding the email form functionality.

I'm going to have a field where the user can enter their email address. This form will be sent to our ticket processing que. I'd like to be able to pull the users email addy from this field and have the email be sent to the email I've entered in the code under the email that's in the field.

Hope that makes sense.

Anyone know if that's possible?

[CremeEgg]

Anybody know what I would have to change with this section to get it to post to 2 forums?

//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 = "x";

[Deety]

Originally Posted by CremeEgg

Anybody know what I would have to change with this section to get it to post to 2 forums?

//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 = "x";

Same question here. I can tell you a bunch of things that don't work.

Haven't delved into the email options yet, but I just noticed that the option for multiple email addresses is built in. Code for posting to multiple forums should be similar, right? That's where I'm going to look next; see if the code can be mimicked.

Once this is solved, next step is to figure out how to make the forums selectable via check boxes. I have it working for single-forum selection, but have a feeling it might get complicated figuring out how to add the forumid to some sort of formforumid array if the corresponding box is checked. Whee!