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

[karnevil]

I seem to have done something stupid

anytime you hit POST TOPIC (new thread) on my forum now it brings up my form answers instead of opening the post a new thread page.

Amethyst ______________________________________

______________________________________ ____ ______________________________________ ____ ______________________________________ ____ ______________________________________ ____ ______________________________________ ____ ______________________________________ ____ ____ ______________________________________ ____ ______________________________________ ____ ______________________________________ ______________________________________ ______________________________________ ______________________________________ ______________________________________ ______________________________________

ie the answers without format or any completion

The path is correct ''.............. forums/newthread.php?do=newthread&f=168 ''


I think when I was editing the formanswers template I accidentaly changed the title of formanswers to newthread, (I meant to search templates but was distracted grr), I changed it back straight away - but thats where things went wrong and I really cant work how to get back.

I now seem to have two formanswers template, one is the original and one is the one i have been working on.


Any ideas ? please please please

[karnevil]

okay sorry brain dead moment

I went and made a new newthread template - seems I have overwritten it with formanswers, so all fixed.....sorry for being a pleb.

btw - form is really great just a bit tedious to edit.

[Stryker412]

Can anyone help me with these issues so I can get this form ready, it's the only issues holding me back right now.

1) Need help with how to implement the Ajax triple dropdown menu on one line.
2) How to make the questions bold when they are posted in a thread.
3) How to put the user's forum ID or name in the thread title when posted.

[RedGTiVR6]

[QUOTE=Stryker412;1585889]Can anyone help me with these issues so I can get this form ready, it's the only issues holding me back right now.

1) Need help with how to implement the Ajax triple dropdown menu on one line.

Post in that thread then, this thread has nothing to do with the AJAX add on.

2) How to make the questions bold when they are posted in a thread.

That's beenc overed before in the thread here.

Go to your answer template and add in bb code where you want it, just like in a regular post on your forums. Just be sure to leave a space between the BB code and the code in your answer template.

3) How to put the user's forum ID or name in the thread title when posted.

Also been covered numerous times in this thread. You might want to use the search in this thread feature in the future when you have questions about how to do something with a mod. It saves the developers and others from having to repeat themselves numerous times and it means that those with questions that haven't been answered actually might have their questions answered and seen....

[Stryker412]

Originally Posted by RedGTiVR6

Post in that thread then, this thread has nothing to do with the AJAX add on.

Actually I'm sure lots of people would like to ask user's for birthday so I'd say it's very relevant.

[RedGTiVR6]

You're asking for help with the AJAX mod, this isn't the AJAX thread.

They are two completely different developers.

Abe1 wrote the form hack, deepdpg009 wrote the ADD-ON for the form hack: https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=182144

AJAX functionality is NOT a normal part of this modification, it's an add on which was written by a different developer. If you have questions about AJAX functionality, you should ask it in the AJAX thread, NOT the general modification thread.

[Stryker412]

For the username in title I tried:

$posttitle = "$bbuserinfo[username]";

However I got nothing but errors, what is the proper code for that line?

[RedGTiVR6]

can you post the errors?

[Stryker412]

I don't get an error but the thread title looks like this if I have the code as:

$posttitle = "$formtitle - $bbuserinfo[username]";

Thread shows as Community Member Application -

No user name shows.

[PHILLYFAN]

ok I uploaded the XML file, how can I view the application I can't seem to find it