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

[Stryker412]

DJ, I use the forms for an application process and it is submitted into an area that only certain people have access to. The applicants cannot read the area it is submitted to but I found out that they can subscribe to the thread and be sent the replies. How can I deny anyone from subscribing in that section?

[Digital Jedi]

Originally Posted by asandhanam

Can anybody suggest a captcha system that works well with this hack? I tried noSpam. But encountered problems getting it to work with this.

My solution was to just link unregistered users to the registration page, and then have used a redirect to the forum upon registration. That might not work for everyone though.

Originally Posted by Stryker412

DJ, I use the forms for an application process and it is submitted into an area that only certain people have access to. The applicants cannot read the area it is submitted to but I found out that they can subscribe to the thread and be sent the replies. How can I deny anyone from subscribing in that section?

Only thing I can think of at the moment, short of disabling subscriptions altogether, is to have the threads in that section go into the moderator queue first, and the upon approval, check it's subscription status with the thread starter. Or you can use the Unsubscribe option in the Admin CP an remove subscriptions from a specific user from a specific forum.

But then, I haven't checked to see if Abe set a variable setting for this.

[Sawa Dee SohL]

I'm trying to get the text(content I put in) to show up bigger - How can I enlarge the text/Make the font bigger?

How would I be able to make it so the Radio buttons - aren't so spread apart? Or make the font smaller for the default questions?

[Murex]

So nothing on getting a field written to the database?

[Digital Jedi]

I have a particularly large form to fill out. I notice if I spend a long time filling out the form, trying to submit or preview results in a security token error. I presume that means that it's just timed out. Is this a function of vBulletin on creating a new thread or is this a function of the modification and how would I increase the time limit?

[Simon Lloyd]

Your errors on unregistered users getting replies would be removed if you chose the email or pm options for the form.

The timeout i suspect is set in your vbulletin options as i have had a form open for over 30 mins before hitting preview and has worked ok.

[s810car]

I have been making an extensively complicated form, which has been coming out beautifully for what I need to do. I do have a problem though, I can't seem to edit the form answer template with any spaces, I have worked around some of that with the indent bbcode, but im also setting up some parts of the end user display inline like this:

info here(about 8 spaces)info here(about 8 spaces)info here
but it comes out like

info here info here info here

using nbsp stuff doesn't work cause it just displays it, any idea how to remedy this?

EDIT: lol happened in this editor too so had to write those comments up there, maybe it isn't able to be done with vBulletins WYSIWYG currently

[Digital Jedi]

Originally Posted by s810car

I have been making an extensively complicated form, which has been coming out beautifully for what I need to do. I do have a problem though, I can't seem to edit the form answer template with any spaces, I have worked around some of that with the indent bbcode, but im also setting up some parts of the end user display inline like this:

info here(about 8 spaces)info here(about 8 spaces)info here
but it comes out like

info here info here info here

using nbsp stuff doesn't work cause it just displays it, any idea how to remedy this?

EDIT: lol happened in this editor too so had to write those comments up there, maybe it isn't able to be done with vBulletins WYSIWYG currently

The only way around that is to create your own BBCode that inserts a  .

[s810car]

yeah, problem with that is if the user is allowed to edit the post, they will see all the custom bbcode tags like I put in a noparse bbcode, makes it a mess.

Only workaround I found at the moment is hard-coding the class_bbcode.php, near the bottom is all of vbulletins $tag_list items. I was too lazy to read through all of the code to create a custom value option one, so made 3 tags at 9, 20, and 50 pixels. Heres the code in case anyone else had that issue:

PHP Code:

// [SPACE20]
        $tag_list['no_option']['space20'] = array(
            'html' => '<span style="margin-left:20px;">%1$s</span>',
                'strip_empty' => true,
                'strip_space_after' => 1
            ); 


The codes that allowed a {option} parameter had different code, but im sure anyone who reads through the code can figure it out

[davida500]

You have to be logged in to fill in a form, if you are not then this error is received:

PHP Code:

Fatal error: Existing data passed is not an array
Called set_existing in [path]/newthread.php(74) : eval()'d code on line 350
Called eval in [path]/newthread.php on line 74
in [path]/includes/class_dm.php on line 235 


Anyway is there a way to make it so this error disappears if you are not logged in?

Thanks.

David.