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

[Wongod]

Hey Abe,

Any progress on this? Thanks =)

Originally Posted by Abe1

I'll have a look at the code.

[Roxie]

Ahhh. Just what I need!

Thanks.

[zafrir]

Personally I see this as one of the great hacks....
next step should be someone rais it to the next level by
writing an external wysiwyg editor enhancement to
auto generate the forms and proper hooks and answer pages.

Z

[ctrl-alt-del]

How can I use BB code for formanswers?? Can I get an example?

In other words,
I want the question headings to be bold when posted to a thread.

[R.Caldwell]

Originally Posted by ctrl-alt-del

How can I use BB code for formanswers?? Can I get an example?

In other words,
I want the question headings to be bold when posted to a thread.

in the formanswers template, make your code look like this

PHP Code:

[b] $formquestion [/b] - Note the spaces in between the [b][/b] 


[Abe1]

You can also do this:

[b]$formquestion [/b]

or

[b]$formquestion
[/b][b]$formquestion
[/b]

[ctrl-alt-del]

Thanks, I tried the obvious, but received an error message. I'll try the suggestions above.

[ctrl-alt-del]

A WYSIWYG editor would put this hack over the top!

I have yet another question I'm hoping be answered with relative ease. Is it possible to add a drop down menu to a form that posts either a new thread or reply to a thread in a specific form based on the selection of the drop down?

Example: Selections could be The Lounge, vBulletin Discussions, Service Requests, etc. Submitting the form would create the thread in the drop down selection. Thanks!!

[ctrl-alt-del]

I imagine it's not as simple as:

$formforumid = "$dropdownanswer1";

I need a way of associating the selection to a forumID. Thanks again!

[The-Ensemble]

Ok, My forms are done I just need this edit and then I'm tottally done.

How would I change the navbar in php? I want it so it says
board name - usercp - usercp page - form