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

[Deepdog009]

Originally Posted by CrashfAB

Very interesting. So I have an introduction area where I like new users to post in. So can I use this hack for just that area then?

Yeap there are ways to use this form there, but you might want to ask the author about that. Using links in header to funnel to forms is workable.

Im putting together a forms pack, but I need a image verification first. Milk Carton is on the ball with that add-on.

Good Luck

[sweede]

I run a Warcraft Guild website. I use this hack.mod so that other wow players can post their applications to our guild. However we have some people that despite forcing a preview, still manage to submit incomplete or two word response applications.

What i want to do is modify the plugin script so that it checks to see if a user has posted an application already in that forum and exit saying "you can only apply to guild once every 30 days".

[dutchbb]

Originally Posted by dutchbb

Thanks for the reply and yes I'm sure because I tried it as an administrator. It's not posted IN a thread but posted AS a thread in a selected forum. I can provide access if needed so you can check my settings. Please let me know.

????

[MAME]

How would I delete the long answer question in the form? I seem to be missing something?

[Abe1]

Originally Posted by MAME

How would I delete the long answer question in the form? I seem to be missing something?

You have to edit the templates also.

[Deepdog009]

vBull 3.6.8 seems to be having some issues with posting... should up uninstall and install again?

vBull 3.5.4 is working koooooooolllll.

[Deepdog009]

Originally Posted by MAME

How would I delete the long answer question in the form? I seem to be missing something?

<tr>
<td class="alt1" valign="middle">
<b>$longquestion1</b><br />
$longexplain1</td>
<td class="alt1" valign="middle" colspan="2">
<textarea rows="20" cols="70" name="longanswer1">$longanswer1</textarea>
</td>
</tr>

Find this in main template and remove

Also as ABE1 says you must modify both templates in ADMINCP temp area and then change plugin code here...>

// Part 1
$vbulletin->input->clean_array_gpc('p', array(
'answer1' => TYPE_STR,
'answer2' => TYPE_STR,
'answer3' => TYPE_STR,
'answer4' => TYPE_STR,
'answer5' => TYPE_STR,
'radioanswer1' => TYPE_STR,
'radioanswer1other' => TYPE_STR,
'radioanswer2' => TYPE_STR,
'radioanswer2other' => TYPE_STR,
));

// Part 2
$answer1 = $vbulletin->GPC['answer1'];
$answer2 = $vbulletin->GPC['answer2'];
$answer3 = $vbulletin->GPC['answer3'];
$answer4 = $vbulletin->GPC['answer4'];
$answer5 = $vbulletin->GPC['answer5'];
$radioanswer1 = $vbulletin->GPC['radioanswer1'];
$radioanswer1other = $vbulletin->GPC['radioanswer1other'];
$radioanswer2 = $vbulletin->GPC['radioanswer2'];
$radioanswer2other = $vbulletin->GPC['radioanswer2other'];

Long answer is missing here,,, remove all lines not used in form.

Good Luck

[Abe1]

Originally Posted by Deepdog009

vBull 3.6.8 seems to be having some issues with posting... should up uninstall and install again?

vBull 3.5.4 is working koooooooolllll.

when was 3.6.8 released???????

[Abe1]

Originally Posted by Shazz

But if you must know Abe1 it was Mar 1st 2007

As far as I know, the last version the the 3.6.x is 3.6.5.

[Shazz]

oops thought he said 3.5.8