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

[storpappa]

3.7 thread / version available or just keep posting here? Great mod - thanks, used it for some time. This should be a must install for every site, you always can use a form

[Kinneas]

Originally Posted by alternity

Hi, I'm having issues with this hack since upgrading to 3.7. The forms display correctly, but when I try to submit them I get the following text on a white background:

I'm running Form Hack 4.1.
Any ideas?

Originally Posted by dutchbb

Yes I'm having the same error message, any help from the coder please?

Latest version should have fixed it AFAIK. Did you use some custom template names for your forms?

Try editing them and look for:

<input type="hidden" name="posthash" value="$posthash" />

Add below:

<input type="hidden" name="securitytoken" value="$bbuserinfo[securitytoken]" />

[dutchbb]

That solved it, thanks!

[vrokar]

I have a question maybe some of you who or more advanced then I can answer.

Say I have two Drop down Menus. DropDownA with 5 Options and DropdownB with 3 options.

Is it possible to set the Dropdown boxes in this fashion..

If DropDownA (Option 1) Selected then DropDownB's Selectable options are a,b,c.

Example...

DropDown1 Offers, Warrior, Warlock, Priest.

If Warrior is selected then DropDownB would offer the Protection, Fury, Arms as an option.

If Warlock is selected DropDownB would offer Affliction, Demonology, Destruction as an option. I have a feeling it is possible...but im not sure how. Any help would be appreciated.

[Spinball]

vrokar this is possible, but you need to use Javascript function to alter the available options in the dependant drop-down when the first is changed. You call the function using onchange.
There are plenty of examples on the 'net and buying a Javascript book would not hurt.

[vrokar]

Originally Posted by Spinball

vrokar this is possible, but you need to use Javascript function to alter the available options in the dependant drop-down when the first is changed. You call the function using onchange.
There are plenty of examples on the 'net and buying a Javascript book would not hurt.

Ill have to do that. Maybe find an example somewhere that can help. Have any reconmendations for a good javascript book?

[Spinball]

Originally Posted by vrokar

Ill have to do that. Maybe find an example somewhere that can help. Have any reconmendations for a good javascript book?

Have a look over at Sitepoint.com

[Scalemotorcars]

Ive looked over the thread and I don't see my answer so if this has been covered I apologize.

I cant get the attachments section to display on the form.

Made the edit to:

PHP Code:

////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////

//ENABLE ATTACHMENTS - 1 = yes, 0 = no
//attachments can only be used if the form is going to make a new thread or post
$allow_attachments = "1";

//////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// 


But still not showing on the (/newthread.php?do=form ) page.

Also: I'm using this to post to a specific thread and edited this feature.

PHP Code:

////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////

//ENABLE FORM TO REPLY TO EXISTING THREAD - 1 = yes, 0 = no
$formreply = "1";

//EXISTING THREAD ID FOR FORM TO REPLY IN
$formreplythreadid = "2040";

//////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// 


I really need the attachments section to work or the mod or its useless to me. Any help please. Thanks

[Scalemotorcars]

Ive looked again and again and noticed several others having this problem. I'm using 3.6.5 and when I go to the form page theres no area for attachment.

Any help would be great. Thanks....

[Scalemotorcars]

OK I need to get this working so I'm offering up $20.00 to the first guy that can help me get this going on 3.6.5.

Everything else works fine I just cant get this section of code to work.

PHP Code:

<if condition="$attachmentoption">
<tr>
<td class="alt1" colspan="3" align="center">
<div style="width:$stylevar[formwidth]" align="$stylevar[left]">$attachmentoption</div>
</td>
</tr>
</if> 


Ive tried it without the <If> and as a stand alone $attachmentoption, even moved it to other area's on the template.