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

[RedGTiVR6]

Originally Posted by Deepdog009

PHP Code:

////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
//CHOOSE WHETHER YOU WANT FORM TO BE POSTED IN A NEW THREAD, NEW POLL, REPLY TO EXISITING THREAD, PMed OR EMAILED
///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////

//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.
if ($dropdownanswer2 == "Title here")
        {
            $formforumid = "11";
        }
if ($dropdownanswer2 == "Title here 1")
        {
            $formforumid = "5";
        }
if ($dropdownanswer2 == "Title here 2")
        {
            $formforumid = "17";
        }
if ($dropdownanswer2 == "Title here 3")
        {
            $formforumid = "9";
        }
if ($dropdownanswer2 == "Title here 4")
        {
            $formforumid = "32";
        }

//ENABLE POLL TO BE CREATED - 1 = yes, 0 = no
$formpoll = "0";
$polloption[1] = "Yes";
$polloption[2] = "No";
$polloption[3] = "Maybe";

//Make poll public - 1 = yes, 0 = no
$pollpublic = "0";

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


POSTING 2 FORUMS ??????????????????????????????????

Many ways, but this may help U

For some strange reason, this prevents the attachment feature from showing on the form.

Any ideas why that might happen?

[BlueBulletRL]

I'm having trouble making it work when I click new thread in my 2 forsale forums to the forum. I have put in the variables. I'm not sure if the form works yet because I can't get the form to link to when I hit new thread. Is this something I'm missing in the setup?

[RedGTiVR6]

this modification doesn't touch the new thread button. To do that, you need a separate modification.

Abe1 created a modification that would do this already. Just check his profile for that.

[ccplim]

Originally Posted by BlueBulletRL

I'm having trouble making it work when I click new thread in my 2 forsale forums to the forum. I have put in the variables. I'm not sure if the form works yet because I can't get the form to link to when I hit new thread. Is this something I'm missing in the setup?

I believed this should help solve your problem

[BlueBulletRL]

Thank yoU!

[Stryker412]

Ok thanks for the tip about the templates, that was what I was missing. Now I want to add a question for the following.

Birthday (3 separate drop down boxes next to each other on the same line, can this be auto filled like the forum name?)

Edit: Ok I've added drop downs for State/Province but I've already used a-z & aa-zz so what can I use next? Can I just keep going aaa-zzz or should I switch to numbers?

How can I make sections separate on the form? I want to have a section for personal info, gaming, info, then a longanswer box for final comments.

I also tested the forum and filled in every question, yet when I go to preview it said I didn't answer all the questions.

[RedGTiVR6]

I'd keep using letters.

As for the answers, did you ad them to the answer template as well?

No ideas on the separate section other than perhaps creating multiple forms.

[MoMan]

I almost got everything to work on vBulletin 3.7.2, but there are two things that are bugging me which I'll have to get to work before using the form on my site:

1. Can the form have a field through which users can choose a custom thread title?
2. If the forum to which you try linking the form requires thread prefixes, no new threads can be posted through the form. How would I got about having the form automatically add a prefix, or select a prefix based on a radio button choice or dropdown?

[RedGTiVR6]

To get the form to have a thread title which is essentially a field, just change $posttitle = $whateveransweryouwant ($answer1 or $longanswer1 or $dropdownanswer1, etc.)

Same as above.

For instance, on our forum, the thread title is generated as the following:

$posttitle = "$dropdownanswer2 - $dropdownanswer1 - $answer2";

[MoMan]

Originally Posted by RedGTiVR6

To get the form to have a thread title which is essentially a field, just change $posttitle = $whateveransweryouwant ($answer1 or $longanswer1 or $dropdownanswer1, etc.)

Same as above.

For instance, on our forum, the thread title is generated as the following:

$posttitle = "$dropdownanswer2 - $dropdownanswer1 - $answer2";

Thanks a lot for the reply!

Do you also happen to know what the vBulletin variable for prefixes is?