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

[mschvili]

Wow. You're the man, Abi. Now I can start up my support service. Been wating for this update first.

A question, I don't want to go through an update of our vBulletin yet. So, would v4.0 Form Hack work also on vBulletin v3.5?

Matti.

[|oR|Greg]

Important FYI - If you have "Guest Post Image Verification" turned on, posting to a thread will not work because the form hack doesn't integrate the Image Verification system.

[|oR|Greg]

Oh and attachments don't work for unregistered users.

[Abe1]

Originally Posted by mschvili

Wow. You're the man, Abi. Now I can start up my support service. Been wating for this update first.

A question, I don't want to go through an update of our vBulletin yet. So, would v4.0 Form Hack work also on vBulletin v3.5?

Matti.

I'm not sure. The attachment structure may be differant.

[|oR|Greg]

Abe, How do I format the results of the form without allowing the use of HTML in threads? I want to bold the questions once it's posted to the thread and of course in the preview... but I can't use BBCode in a template, and HTML in the form doesn't display in the thread... ?

[|oR|Greg]

Also, when I turn on the variable to require that all questions are answered... even though I answer them all, it tells me I haven't.

[Nuguru]

Helly Everyone,

It's great to hear that Form Hack now has the ability to accept attachments on this new update but I am running vb 3.5.4. and intend on staying with this vb version for a while.

Can this updated version work on vb 3.5.4.? If not, can you update a version of Form Hack to work with vb 3.5.4. because I really like this mod but would like it to be able to allow attachments?



Thank You,


Nuguru

[Abe1]

Originally Posted by |oR|Greg

Abe, How do I format the results of the form without allowing the use of HTML in threads? I want to bold the questions once it's posted to the thread and of course in the preview... but I can't use BBCode in a template, and HTML in the form doesn't display in the thread... ?

You can use BBCode in the answer template. Just make sure the end of a varable not is next to a bbcode.

[Abe1]

Originally Posted by |oR|Greg

Also, when I turn on the variable to require that all questions are answered... even though I answer them all, it tells me I haven't.

If you removed any of the defaut test, you have to remove the varibles from the check also.

Also, the vb editor back automaticlly check to make sure you have the min. amount of car. in the box.

[Abe1]

Originally Posted by Nuguru

Helly Everyone,

It's great to hear that Form Hack now has the ability to accept attachments on this new update but I am running vb 3.5.4. and intend on staying with this vb version for a while.

Can this updated version work on vb 3.5.4.? If not, can you update a version of Form Hack to work with vb 3.5.4. because I really like this mod but would like it to be able to allow attachments?



Thank You,


Nuguru

I'm not sure if the attahments work the same in vb3.5 as they do in vb3.6. You would have to copy the plug-in and template and test it out.