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

[rjmjr69]

Can I add this as a link in the toolbar?

[basilrath]

Yes just link the php as normal

[fluentdesigns]

Im having trouble understanding how to creat a form? It says

2 - Edit the main hook (plug-in) - the instructions are all inside the hook itself, in the top half. Follow the instructions carefully!

but I have no idea what the heck that means. Plus in the description is says this hack is totally customizable via the admincp?

[wintrmte]

Great hack, but I'm having one problem.

The posts to a forum are being posted as Moderated. The forum permissions are set to be Non Moderated. How do I fix this?

Thanks!

[Spinball]

Originally Posted by Abe1

You need to add in the template a 'hidden' field so the f gets moved from the original page to the submit page.

I did. The f isn't being picked up the first time the script is run, so that the value of f in the form is null.

[GrossKopf]

Ok, I'm doing something wrong. I'm a total noob to vbulletin so please explain. I am getting the same results as this person:

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost....6&postcount=22

Can someone explain in step by step instructions what I need to do to remove the empty fields and get the fields I want to display?

Here's my actual form:

http://flotserver.net/forums/newthread.php?do=flotapp

[lazytown]

I'm starting to get spam through this, and as another user mentioned, the threads are marked for moderation for some reason.

I was hoping the captcha alternative (asking questions) could be applied to this mod.

-vissa

[GrossKopf]

I appologize if my question's been answered before, but 17 pages of questions was a lot to look through at 1:30am. I figured if I asked my question, maybe it would be answered before I have time to go through all 17 pages. If this is a common error, maybe a readme included with the hack could be written to address this problem?

[Abe1]

Originally Posted by Spinball

I did. The f isn't being picked up the first time the script is run, so that the value of f in the form is null.

use 'forumid'. f gets changed to forumid

[Abe1]

Originally Posted by fluentdesigns

Im having trouble understanding how to creat a form? It says


2 - Edit the main hook (plug-in) - the instructions are all inside the hook itself, in the top half. Follow the instructions carefully!

but I have no idea what the heck that means. Plus in the description is says this hack is totally customizable via the admincp?

hooks and plug-ins in the acp