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

[ChrisBaktis]

Originally Posted by R.Caldwell

this code should work just fine in the hack code itself.

PHP Code:

$posttitle = "$bbuserinfo[username]"; 


I tried that but it just left it out in the thread title

My $postitle code is = $bbuserinfo[username] / $normalanswer1

The thread that is created has a title that is this " / $normalanswer1" - the username doesnt show but the $normalanswer info does

[R.Caldwell]

did you add it to the answers template?

[The-Ensemble]

Originally Posted by R.Caldwell

You could try adding this to the navbar template in your style

<if condition="$show['member']">
			<td class="vbmenu_control"><a href="newthread.php?do=service_form">$vbphrase[Form]</a></td>
		</if>

If this was to me, thank you but it needs to be done in php it doesnt do it in the template

[ChrisBaktis]

Originally Posted by R.Caldwell

did you add it to the answers template?

Yes and the answer template works fine...I have that same info in there where it works just as it did before - this is just in the Thread title that it isnt showing up.

[The-Ensemble]

Hey,
I figured out how to edit breadcrum you simply remove the navbar part of the php code and your own but you can use the $formname part incase you change the form.

Thanks R.Caldwell I got the idea from what you said.

[Deimos]

Great hack, smal.....large problem, heh

I've made it so there's 15 normal questions/answers, all of which show up on the original form
But, when you post or preview it, only the answer to the first question is posted?
It seems to ignore the other answers?
I must be missing something somewhere right?

[ChrisBaktis]

Originally Posted by ChrisBaktis

I tried that but it just left it out in the thread title

My $postitle code is = $bbuserinfo[username] / $normalanswer1

The thread that is created has a title that is this " / $normalanswer1" - the username doesnt show but the $normalanswer info does

Any additonal suggestions on what the problem may be?

[The-Ensemble]

Originally Posted by Deimos

Great hack, smal.....large problem, heh

I've made it so there's 15 normal questions/answers, all of which show up on the original form
But, when you post or preview it, only the answer to the first question is posted?
It seems to ignore the other answers?
I must be missing something somewhere right?

did you edit the forumanswers one so it shows all of them?


Ok now here's my question:
Someone filled out the form and pressed enter in a box and it submitted it, rather than create a new line how do I change this?

[Martin-TMGRS]

I've tried editing the form, but when I view it there is all the old boxes left. I dont understand what i'm doing wrong. Can anyone help me out here please...See the attached file...

[The-Ensemble]

did you edit the templates as well as the php code?