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]

Ok, My forms are done I just need this edit and then I'm tottally done.

How would I change the navbar in php? I want it so it says
board name - usercp - usercp page - form

ReBumping my question

[R.Caldwell]

You could try adding this to the navbar template in your style

<if condition="$show['member']">
			<td class="vbmenu_control"><a href="newthread.php?do=service_form">$vbphrase[Form]</a></td>
		</if>

[aceofspades]

Originally Posted by aceofspades

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



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

Are you able to help me with this?

James

[R.Caldwell]

Originally Posted by aceofspades

Are you able to help me with this?

James

When you change the title of the questions, you need to make the same changes to the form template and formanswers template.

Make sure whatever questions you changed are in the Part 1 & 2 Varibles list as well.

[Abe1]

Originally Posted by R.Caldwell

When you change the title of the questions, you need to make the same changes to the form template and formanswers template.

Make sure whatever questions you changed are in the Part 1 & 2 Varibles list as well.

Only if you cahnge the var. name or add, or delete do you have to edit part 1, part 2, and both templates.

[R.Caldwell]

Abe1 - Is there a way to you can at least tell me the varible(s) i need to change? I know it's something small I am missing.

[JAuthement]

Abe1,

For us the "Programming Illiterate" is there a way that you can upgrade the mod so that it is more "User Friendly"? for example make it so that the layout and questions can be edited within a options page basically make it "Point and Click". Reasoning for this is that I've tried to configure this as an Application form. I had no need for a normal answer variable but instead I needed another dropdown. For the life of me I could not get rid of the input box for $normalquestion1, I could not get the dropdown to present itself where I wanted it, and I couldn't get both dropdown's to be visable on the page. I went as far as to create an additional variable and sequetially numbered it (i.e. $dropdownanswer1 and $dropdownanswer2) but with no success.

I see this mod as a valuable asset to my site but my limited expertise in programming ( expertiese scale 1 - 10 MINE - neg 5,000) renders it useless at the moment.

[Abe1]

Originally Posted by JAuthement

Abe1,

For us the "Programming Illiterate" is there a way that you can upgrade the mod so that it is more "User Friendly"? for example make it so that the layout and questions can be edited within a options page basically make it "Point and Click". Reasoning for this is that I've tried to configure this as an Application form. I had no need for a normal answer variable but instead I needed another dropdown. For the life of me I could not get rid of the input box for $normalquestion1, I could not get the dropdown to present itself where I wanted it, and I couldn't get both dropdown's to be visable on the page. I went as far as to create an additional variable and sequetially numbered it (i.e. $dropdownanswer1 and $dropdownanswer2) but with no success.

I see this mod as a valuable asset to my site but my limited expertise in programming ( expertiese scale 1 - 10 MINE - neg 5,000) renders it useless at the moment.

I am a programmer, not an English teacher. I don't have patients to write everything up perfectly. The hardest part about programming is to explain to users how to use it. If someone is willing to be a middle man, be my guess and contact me.

[ChrisBaktis]

I have my form posting as a thread - the members enter $normalanswer1 with the username of someone they trade with...when the form posts I want the title of the thread created to be the username of the person posting the form and $normalanswer1...

on the old version I think I did '$bbuserinfo[username] / $normalanswer1' but when I do that in the $posttitle part now the $bbuserinfo doesnt work...any suggestions?

[R.Caldwell]

this code should work just fine in the hack code itself.

PHP Code:

$posttitle = "$bbuserinfo[username]";