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

[The-Ensemble]

Can you create Multiple forms with this?

[Spinball]

Originally Posted by The-Ensemble

Can you create Multiple forms with this?

Yes, you have to create a different form (and formanswers) template and also a plugin product for each one.

[FSFwebmaster]

for some reason if i add more than 3 questions they dont show up any idea why ? this part of the form

$question1 = "What is your name?";
$explain1 = "Please enter your real name here.";

//QUESTION 2 (do not use quotation marks or you will get a parse error, besides the quotes around the whole text)
$question2 = "What is your online game name?";
$explain2 = "Please enter your online game name here.";

//QUESTION 3 (do not use quotation marks or you will get a parse error, besides the quotes around the whole text)
$question3 = "What is your birth date?";
$explain3 = "Please enter your birthe date here.";

//QUESTION 4 (do not use quotation marks or you will get a parse error, besides the quotes around the whole text)
$question4 = "What is your email address?";
$explain4 = "Please enter your email address here.";

[Abe1]

Originally Posted by FSFwebmaster

for some reason if i add more than 3 questions they dont show up any idea why ? this part of the form

$question1 = "What is your name?";
$explain1 = "Please enter your real name here.";

//QUESTION 2 (do not use quotation marks or you will get a parse error, besides the quotes around the whole text)
$question2 = "What is your online game name?";
$explain2 = "Please enter your online game name here.";

//QUESTION 3 (do not use quotation marks or you will get a parse error, besides the quotes around the whole text)
$question3 = "What is your birth date?";
$explain3 = "Please enter your birthe date here.";

//QUESTION 4 (do not use quotation marks or you will get a parse error, besides the quotes around the whole text)
$question4 = "What is your email address?";
$explain4 = "Please enter your email address here.";

YOu have to edit the template also.

[Spiffware]

nice work thanks i like it alot

[Limerick]

Hello Abe,

Thank you very much for your hack which will be useful for many of us.

I'd like to know if your hack could be used in a way I've described here, and what changes would it need ?

Note that what I described there was just an idea, but your design seems to be as convenient.

[Spinball]

Hi Abe,
I have modified the form to allow the attachements, and that works (in that it allows me to add attachments). I have also re-modified the formanswers template from the original, although I don't see any reference to attachments in that.
No attachments are appearing in the preview. What am I doing wrong, please?

[The-Ensemble]

Originally Posted by Spinball

Yes, you have to create a different form (and formanswers) template and also a plugin product for each one.

ok, that sounds kinda hard. Do I just alter the original plugin product and change a few things?
If so what things?

[aceofspades]

Can you please help me, i am getting this error message:

Fatal error: Existing data passed is not an array
Called set_existing in /home/hiven48/public_html/forums/newthread.php(70) : eval()'d code on line 411
Called eval in /home/hiven48/public_html/forums/newthread.php on line 70
in /includes/class_dm.php on line 235

I have only changed the titles of the questions, i havent changed anything else.

[The-Ensemble]

Ignore my previous question. I just found the instructions lol

ETA: Can the form be customised to have a lot of input box and fields?

ETA (again): How would I change the navbar in php? I want it so it says
board name - usercp - usercp page - form

Does this (the questions etc.) have to be done in php? can't it be done in the template?

any idea?