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

[wolfe]

the attahment option is not showing up m8 ?

all code there and its set to allow them ?

[firstrebel]

Great mod, but had to play around a while til I got the hang of setting it up.

Looked in my forum database this morning at some templates and noticed there is a version 3.5 and version 4 of the form template there. I have never installed another version of this at all before version 4 yesterday. Anyone got the same?

Bob

[ComputerVitals]

Is there a way we can have the form so the person fills out the thread title?

[attroll]

Originally Posted by ComputerVitals

Is there a way we can have the form so the person fills out the thread title?

I was just about to post the same question.

It would be nice if we could either have the user fill out the thread title or have one of the variables in one of the answer blocks be used as the thread title.

[firstrebel]

I have a form in our car sales section, see the attachment form.jpg for the bottom of the form. The second attachment form_output.jpg shows a big gap. I cannot find what is causing this, any ideas from anyone.

Bob

EDIT: Figured it out

</td>
</tr>
</td>
</tr>
<if condition="$attachmentoption">

should be

</td>
</tr>
<if condition="$attachmentoption">

[criscokid]

Hi Abe1,

Are you going to be developing this fanatastic mod further? If you are here's some ideas I'd love to see implimented in a future version:

1: A number of characters already used in a specific input box.
2: A form that creates an entry in the calendar.

[NeilK]

Two things:

The text I have in $formpurpose scrolls off the side of the page, past the normal edge of the forum. Is there a setting to correct this?

Also, I'm looking to make the post that is generated by the hack point to the USERID of the person that submitted the form. Specifically, I want to create a URL in the generated post that points to the Mod/Admin CP for the posting user, so we may edit a setting. I tried 100 different things to get a working userid variable in the post, but I am too green at this I suppose.

Any ideas?

Regards,

Neil

[criscokid]

Originally Posted by NeilK

The text I have in $formpurpose scrolls off the side of the page, past the normal edge of the forum. Is there a setting to correct this?

$formpurpose should just wrape on to the next line. It sounds to me that you probably haven't got the table quite right - closed off a <td> with a </td> in the correct place or the space $formpurpose is in is spanning more columns than it's supposed to.

[attroll]

There must be a way to replace the following statement and include an input for thread title in it in its place.

$formtitle = "Lodging Form Submission";

Any ideas?

[xplicit.syrian]

Hi there,

I am sorry i didn't completely read the whole 45 pages here but i need some help.

I installed the form hack but i don't know how to configure it/ change/ create new forms. In the instructions it says customize it VIA the hook but what hook? Where do i have to go to customize it?

Thank you