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

[Vackrick]

How to add this into the templete???

$dropdownquestion1 = "Suspension Reason";

// The following choices must NOT have quotation marks
$dropdownchoice1a = "Inactivity";
$dropdownchoice1b = "No Ads";
$dropdownchoice1c = "Wrong Ads ";
$dropdownchoice1d = "Incorrect Placement Of Ads";
$dropdownchoice1e = "No Index Up Within 1 Week Or More";
$dropdownchoice1f = "Another Reason That Is Unlisted";
$dropdownchoice1g = "Unknown";

[mustang_lex]

<font color="Red">Threads automatically generated state that they are "Moderated" SOLVED!
Form missing "Manage Attachments" SOLVED!</font>

For those who have had this happen to them. I found the solutions. Its quite simple but easily overlooked. Please note that in my situation, the form was being posted to an admin forum that is not accessible to any registered users, just admins.

1) Login into Admin CP
2) Under "Forum and Moderators" click Forum Permissions
3) Go to the forum that the form gets submitted to.
4) Click "Edit" on the usergroup that uses the form (you may need to do this for more then just one usergroup)
5) Because in my situation, everything was set to NO. So I selected YES to "Can Post Threads", "Follow Forum Moderation Rules" and "Can Upload Attachments".
6) Save and volla. Well it worked for me.

[Stryker412]

I didn't test my triple drop down question in IE. It shows in Firefox fine, but in IE the one drop down box does not even appear.

Edit: fixed

[cragtay]

In the default form template of Form Hack 4.1, there is only one place where user can use editor menu bar, emotions, etc., i.e. $messagearea

Can I create another place where user can use editor menu bar, emotions, etc. in a form? I may have only one VB TEXT AREA INPUT, but is there any way to have one more field where user can use bbcode, emoticons, etc.?

[viper357]

I have 2 forms up and running but when I click submit on my newly created form it is not creating any threads, I have tried various forum numbers but nothing?

[skulldred]

My solution:

Add:

PHP Code:

<input type="hidden" value="$foid" name="fid" /> 


after:

PHP Code:

<input type="hidden" value="$formname" name="do" /> 


then set the variable:

PHP Code:

'foid' => TYPE_STR 


PHP Code:

$foid = $_REQUEST['fid']; 


and now add the following:

PHP Code:

//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.
if ($foid == '5'){
$formforumid = "5";}
if ($foid == '6'){
$formforumid = "6";} 


open the form with:
newthread.php?do=form&fid=5 or 6 or what you want

thats it

[lazytown]

For those of you trying to use this as a "contact us" form but are frustrated with the spam, I found a solution..

Use this mod https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=186926 instead (only useful for a single contact us form to be posted as a thread).. Uses the spam prevention features of vbulletin.

-vissa

[BlueBulletRL]

pretty please someone help me

[Castro82]

after the update to 3.7.3 there is an securitytokken error using this hack.?

[DieselMinded]

WOW will implement when its updated next