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

[mashie]

Originally Posted by Cadellin

Likewise I would be interested in a mod like this for v4.0

+1 for this Mod on 4.0!

[PascalR]

Hi guys,

sorry for the dumb question, but how do I force any thread to use this form in a specific forum?
I changed the forum id to the one I want in the plugin but when I click on "new thread", it is not showing the form options, just the normal thread description.

cheers!

Pascal

[Digital Jedi]

You have to navigate to the form URL first, and then it will post in the specified forum. Remember, it's do=form or whatever name you've given the hook.

[Mondi]

Yes - just to mention I, too, will be interested in an upgrade version for 4.0.

Hoping, hoping, hoping...

[StagKill]

+1 for vB 4.0 Upgrade.
Is it in progress?

[pablo]

would also love this for v4.0.4+ upwards.

[xTerMn8R]

Is it possible to have Unregistered Guest use these forms. I've removed the $BBuser[Email] from the answer file but that didn't help I also added the Unregistered Group to the Array in the plugin. Still wont process, I made these forms a LONG time ago, I have a comment in the form that the Email must be checked and correct or the form will not be processed. Now I dont remember if thats Something I did or if thats part of the Hack.

My Niece is using this for Dog Adoption application, she says a lot of folks don't want to register with the site so they dont fill out the application. I just wanna get it Wide open so anyone can Fill out an adoption application, whether their a registered member or not?

Thankyou,
Tom

[thedvs]

I guess this mod is dead, no port to 4.0.7 then

[kroko]

i know this is a nicropost but dose a mod like this exsist for vb 4,8?

[pckolojim]

Originally Posted by brianFL1

Sorry if this has been asked before, but is it possible to redirect to a specified page with our own URL instead of a thankyou message. Thankyou

Hi,

I needed to do this. This is how I modified.

Open the plugin and find the part starts with

if ($redirectoption == "1")
    	{
        	$vbulletin->url = 'showthread.php?' . $vbulletin->session->vars['sessionurl'] . "p=$newpost[postid]";
        	eval(print_standard_redirect('redirect_postthanks'));
        	exit();

There are four options. So choose the one you won't need. For example I modified fourth redirect option.

instead of

url = 'showthread.php?' . $vbulletin->session->vars['sessionurl'] . "p=$newpost[postid]";

changed to

url = 'http://www.urluwant.com' . $vbulletin->session->vars['sessionurl'] . "";

also from top you must choose the option you edited. for ex: $redirectoption = "4";

it is solved...