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Form Hack · **Released**: 09-14-2006

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

uberjon · #**1032** 05-17-2008, 10:56 PM

read this works on 3.7 and appears to with stock .xml file. however when i attempt to use my customized one. i get a white page? cant diagnose the error with a white page with no output source code.

anyone have any ideas?

edit:

*blush* i figured it out! template naming mismatch

ccplim · #**1033** 05-18-2008, 04:52 AM

I am trying to set up some conditional check for my fields but where should I put them in? In the plugin itself or the main template? I have been playing around with the codes for days but just can't seem to get the conditional syntex right :down:

What is going to happen is that I will have 3 fields in my form, namely $radiochoice1a, $radiochoice1b, and normalanswer1.

If a member select $radiochoice1a as his answer, normalanswer1 will be disabled and no information can be entered in that field.

Else, if the member select $radiochoice1b as his answer, normalanswer1 will be enable.

Thanks!

ccplim · #**1034** 05-18-2008, 08:09 AM

How can I remove the VB text input area? I tried to remove '$messagearea' but the three buttons (Submit, Preview, Reset) below also disappeared

Deepdog009 · #**1035** 05-18-2008, 06:11 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by ccplim

I am trying to set up some conditional check for my fields but where should I put them in? In the plugin itself or the main template? I have been playing around with the codes for days but just can't seem to get the conditional syntex right :down:

What is going to happen is that I will have 3 fields in my form, namely $radiochoice1a, $radiochoice1b, and normalanswer1.

If a member select $radiochoice1a as his answer, normalanswer1 will be disabled and no information can be entered in that field.

Else, if the member select $radiochoice1b as his answer, normalanswer1 will be enable.

Thanks!

ccplim,,,
I haven't had much time to help recently because of my job,,, but yeah you can use the standard if conditional to work out your issue...

What I recommend is downloading a few easy mods and take a look at the XML code... Look for mods that use the if statment allot...

Im still half way out of the PHP twilight zone and on top of that my job wont allow my ball and chain to come off very often...

Take a look at this site...>>> PHP HELPER

If you still need help after checking over there,,, Give me until tuesday and I will assist U...

*************************************************

ccplim,,,
VB Text edit...>>> delete both lines listed below...

HTML Code:

<td class="alt2" valign="middle" colspan="3">
<b>$vbtextquestion</b><br />    <<<......{{{delete this}}}
$vbtextexplain       <<<......{{{delete this}}}
<div align="center">
<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0">
<tr>
<td>
$messagearea
</td>
</tr>
</table>
</div>
</td>
</tr>
<if condition="$attachmentoption">
<tr>
<td class="alt1" colspan="3" align="center">
<div style="width:$stylevar[formwidth]" align="$stylevar[left]">$attachmentoption</div>
</td>
</tr>
</if>
<tr>
<td valign="top" colspan="3">
<p align="center">
<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" />
</p></td></tr>
</table>

</form>

That should do the trick...

*************************************************

ccplim,,,
Using the disable feature seems to work better with ajax,,, the only problem is that I haven't worked with ajax modifications yet... Too many things going on now,,, so maybe next month If Im not burnt out with mod updates,,, I will attempt adding some ajax...

*************************************************

uberjon,,, Beauts!

ccplim · #**1036** 05-19-2008, 02:48 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Deepdog009

ccplim,,,
I haven't had much time to help recently because of my job,,, but yeah you can use the standard if conditional to work out your issue...

What I recommend is downloading a few easy mods and take a look at the XML code... Look for mods that use the if statment allot...

Im still half way out of the PHP twilight zone and on top of that my job wont allow my ball and chain to come off very often...

Take a look at this site...>>> PHP HELPER

If you still need help after checking over there,,, Give me until tuesday and I will assist U...

Thanks for the link pal

I'll take a look at it and see how things can progress from there :up:

rwoscott · #**1037** 05-20-2008, 02:24 AM

I've managed to customise my form, (finally) and can PM it to myself, but I can't seem to get the submit to a forum work. I've set the Forum id to a couple of forums to ensure it works, but alas it does not.

Anyone have an idea as to why it may not work?
Will supply the link if needed.

grimmer · #**1038** 05-20-2008, 01:07 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Deety

I would like to have the form post new threads in multiple forums selected by checkboxes.

This code seems to work well for selecting one $formforumid, but the first two "else" statements would prevent multiple selections, and taking them out did no good.

I'm guessing the issue may be that $formforumid can't be assigned multiple values (i.e., $formforumid = "1,2,3" or some such), but hopefully it can and I'm just missing the language that will do it. Easy answers are nice.

If anyone has a suggestion to get multiple forums working, I'll make the edit to the original form and post it as an example so it's easy for the next person. Thanks for any ideas...

PHP Code:


			
if ($checkboxchoice1_1 = 1)

{

$formforumid = "1";

}

else

if ($checkboxchoice1_2 = 1)

{

$formforumid = "2";

}

else

if ($checkboxchoice1_3 = 1)

{

$formforumid = "3";

}

else

$formforumid = "4";

Bump for a question that about a dozen people here including myself have.

Smiry Kin's · #**1039** 05-20-2008, 11:31 PM

does this work in 3.7.?

as looking for something like this again

ccplim · #**1040** 05-22-2008, 02:15 PM

Oh my goodness..... my form shown up alright in Internet Explorer (see attached "Internet explorer.jpg) but not in Firefox (see attached "Firefox.jpg).

What could have gone wrong?

Alteran Ancient · #**1041** 05-22-2008, 07:50 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by ccplim

Oh my goodness..... my form shown up alright in Internet Explorer (see attached "Internet explorer.jpg) but not in Firefox (see attached "Firefox.jpg).

What could have gone wrong?

It's a good thing I refuse to use Firefox. It's an over-rated, worshipless piece of pap that I only ever touch for the plugins people make for it, such as Download managers. I come for their work, not the work of Mozilla.

At least IE8 will come out with Standard mode available.

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