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

[Digital Jedi]

Originally Posted by serkangul

Hello . I, uniform, joint, box, add, want, . How do I do .

Can't understand what your saying. Sorry.

[life is boost]

Originally Posted by Digital Jedi

Do you have the attachment option enabled in the plugin? It should be showing up wherever you put the attachment variable in the form template. The default example looks like this:

<if condition="$attachmentoption">
<tr>
<td class="alt1" colspan="3" align="center">
<div style="width:$stylevar[formwidth]" align="$stylevar[left]">$attachmentoption</div>
</td>
</tr>
</if>

ye sit is set to 1 in the form and it is in the template. i even tried a completely stock form hack and no attachment box shows up.

[lugdug]

Does anyone know how to change the font size and bold the questions as they are posted to the forum?

[zglows]

just find the questions in the template and add a class to them.
Like this:

<span class="myquestion">Question 1:</span>

[biome.pat]

Anyone know whether this works in 3.8?

[RedGTiVR6]

Yes it does.

[leroub]

Originally Posted by biome.pat

Anyone know whether this works in 3.8?

Yes...

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Hi all,

how to adapt Form Hack to work with the hack VaultWiki https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=189446...

Thank you kindly help me... :up:

[chesterano]

Someone please help I getting an error when try open
http://mysite.com/newthread.php?do=form


Database error in vBulletin 3.8.1:

Invalid SQL:

SELECT *
FROM vb_thread_fields_admin
WHERE (find_in_set( ,forums) OR forums = 0)
ORDER BY display;

MySQL Error : You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near 'forums) OR forums = 0)
ORDER BY display' at line 3
Error Number : 1064
Request Date : Tuesday, April 7th 2009 @ 03:33:34 PM
Error Date : Tuesday, April 7th 2009 @ 03:33:34 PM
Script : http://mysite.com/newthread.php?do=form
Referrer :
IP Address : xxx.xx.xxx.xxx
Username : xxxxxx
Classname : vB_Database
MySQL Version : 5.0.45

[Marvin Hlavac]

Abe, thanks, I just added this mod to my site. Not an issue adding it to the latest vBulletin 3.8.2 version.

[Chevy II]

I'm thinking that I've done something wrong or haven't finished the install. After installing the mod I was able to run the install (example) form and it looked good. After I have made changes to the plug-in (hook) nothing has worked properly.

I have done the following so far:

-Import the XML into products.
-Edited the main plug-in (hook) to match my requirements and changed the part 1 and part 2 to match my questions.
-I've edited the form answer to also match the plug-in questions that I've added.

What am I not doing correctly, because all I get is a white screen when I attempt to run the form.

Thanks!