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

[steven s]

Originally Posted by Glynn58

I need a very simple form to email answers to the questions.

Can I make this auto complete the users username and email address and include this in the email?

Like the standard Vbulletin contact us form does.

Many thanks

You can include
Username: $bbuserinfo[username]
Email address: $bbuserinfo[email]
in your answer template.

[Shazz]

Working perfect on 3.6 and can't find bugs at the moment...(with my custom modifications done to it )

[Abe1]

Originally Posted by 1996 328ti

Great mod. But then again, so was the 3.5 version.

I'm having two problems.
I am unable to send to multiple email addresses.
The two addresses are separated with a ;. Only one is sent.
Version 3.5 worked with multiple addresses using a ,.
Both versions take a long time to send copy of the form to the email addresses.

Just looked at the code it looks like it should work. I would have to look in your acp to find out why it isn't working.

[steven s]

Originally Posted by Abe1

Just looked at the code it looks like it should work. I would have to look in your acp to find out why it isn't working.

I took a different approach after setting up an account for you to use.
Now I realize I am getting the two emails sent to $formemailaddress. What is not happening is, I'm not getting a copy of the form sent to the user's email address. Sorry if that's confusing. When I submit the form, I should actually get 3 copies. 2 being sent to the $formemailaddress and 1 sent to the email address used on the form being submitted. In this case, me.

Edit: It can take 10-15 minutes to receive the form by email.

[Sarcoth]

Great Hack. This is definitely my favorite one. It has helped me learn a lot about coding within vBulletin.

If anyone ever needs help creating forms, feel free to check out some of my examples. You are also welcomed to request additional examples. I'll be adding more as time permits.

My Form Examples

Thanks,
Sarcoth

[civil78]

Originally Posted by Glynn58

I need a very simple form to email answers to the questions.

Can I make this auto complete the users username and email address and include this in the email?

Like the standard Vbulletin contact us form does.

Many thanks

To use the function of auto complete user (like the pm field) you have to create a textarea box with this code in the form template.

<textarea id="namerecips_txt" value="$UsersValue" name="UsersValue" rows="2" cols="30" tabindex="1">$UsersValue</textarea></div>
<div class="vbmenu_popup" id="namerecips_menu" style="display:none; z-index:50"></div>
<script type="text/javascript" src="clientscript/vbulletin_ajax_namesugg.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript">
<!--
vbmenu_register('namerecips', true);
recip_sugg = new vB_AJAX_NameSuggest('recip_sugg', 'namerecips_txt', 'namerecips');
recip_sugg.allow_multiple = true;
//-->
</script>

If you want to add 2 or more boxes you have to change in the script the namerecips*, recip* parameters to something else like namerecips1, recip1.

[beansbaxter]

running 3.6.3....it works good. you do have to have some working knowledge of code/form/php to make the forms. but overall this is a great add-on!!

no problems - a couple bugs but i think they are more the limitation of vbulletin - was able to work through everything and accomplish what i needed just fine.

thanks for this!!

[johnstires]

For some reason Unregistered users using IE cannot access my form. They can through Firefox, but not IE.

[DarkDraco07]

how can i make it possible to use $post[fieldx] variable as my $posttitle? i would really like this to work. thx

[Greek Wizard]

Originally Posted by Sarcoth

Great Hack. This is definitely my favorite one. It has helped me learn a lot about coding within vBulletin.

If anyone ever needs help creating forms, feel free to check out some of my examples. You are also welcomed to request additional examples. I'll be adding more as time permits.

My Form Examples

Thanks,
Sarcoth

That's pretty cool.

When I get a chance, I will have to look that over and check out your work