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

[afmarko99]

That is probably a setting for your Moderator forum not necissarily the form hack. Check the forum settings for moderate new posts or something like that.

[Spinball]

Originally Posted by attroll

Why would someone use double quotes in the thread title anyways?

We have people selling TVs.
42" TV for sale
32" TV For Sale.
It's VERY common and I need to fix it.

[Dubi]

Hi

First of all, thanks for this mod, it's just what I'm looking for.

But the point that would make it perfect for me would be that the generated post were closed automatically.

It's possible to do?

Thanks in advance

[shcchief]

Originally Posted by attroll

I asked you a question in post #817?

mmm didn't see that one, I figured it out and that was the solution anyway, thanks for your input mate, appreciate it.

[fodvapor]

All i want are 5 questions :

aao username

honor

do you have ventrilo installed with a working mic

previous clans

can you help pay for a server

And i dont want that huge vb text box or the tell us about yourself...any help is appreciated !

Great mod

[siliconfinance]

Is it possible to do multiple polls?

[Elenna]

Originally Posted by siliconfinance

Is it possible to do multiple polls?

Yes. In the plugin, it states

// To add more then one form, copy this whole text, and creat a new plug-in with the hook location 'newthread_start'.
// After, change the form name. You can't have 2 forms with the same name.

[YvaN]

Hi all...

I have a problem with this hack, only the preview work : when I click to submit, it's just make a preview, and the reset button don't work...


Form hack :

//ENABLE FORM TO BE POSTED - 1 = yes, 0 = no
$formforum = "1";

//FORUM TO POST NEW THREAD IN
//You CAN make this number a variable. You can have a drop down menu or in the link like do=form&f=1. Make sure you add it the variables list.
$formforumid = "7";

Form template :

<input type="submit" value="Envoyer" name="submit" style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt" class="button" />
<input type="submit" value="Pr?visualiser" name="submit" style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt" class="button" />
<input type="reset" value="Annuler" name="reset" style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt" class="button" />

PS : sorry for my poor english, but I'm speak only french...

[Elenna]

YvaN,

My buttons work. Here is the code for what I have:

<input type="submit" value="Submit" name="submit" style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt" class="button" />
<input type="submit" value="Preview" name="submit" style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt" class="button" />
<input type="reset" value="Reset" name="reset" style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt" class="button" />

Try replacing mine with yours to see if it works? Did you maybe change the <form> values?

[YvaN]

Thx Elenna, but I've just translate the value of the buttons... it's the same thing with the buttons in English...

What do you say by : "Did you maybe change the <form> values"