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

[boomcar68]

Hello all:

First i need to say that i am totally new with vB.
I dumped my nuke-evolution site and imported database into vb.
I must say this is alot of different then nuke :-)
But i like to learn vB alot.

::On Topic::

I installed this nice hack ,but there is only 1 issue for me.
I have 5 radioquestion down to eachother.
I renamed them all,i updated the answer template and the mainhook,all is working except
that the question aren't there only the answers and near the answers i get this error message:

answer1 = Array['radioanswer6other'];


answer2= Array['radioanswer7other'];

answer3 = Array['radioanswer8other'];

answer4 = Array['radioanswer9other'];

answer5 = Array['radioanswer10other'];

I try to find out what could be the problem,but i didnt find.
Can some1 tell me what i did wrong?

Thanks John:up:

[attroll]

Originally Posted by boomcar68

Hello all:

First i need to say that i am totally new with vB.
I dumped my nuke-evolution site and imported database into vb.
I must say this is alot of different then nuke :-)
But i like to learn vB alot.

::On Topic::

I installed this nice hack ,but there is only 1 issue for me.
I have 5 radioquestion down to eachother.
I renamed them all,i updated the answer template and the mainhook,all is working except
that the question aren't there only the answers and near the answers i get this error message:

answer1 = Array['radioanswer6other'];


answer2= Array['radioanswer7other'];

answer3 = Array['radioanswer8other'];

answer4 = Array['radioanswer9other'];

answer5 = Array['radioanswer10other'];

I try to find out what could be the problem,but i didnt find.
Can some1 tell me what i did wrong?

Thanks John:up:

You need to put the question in you formanswers template also. It should look somehting like this.

$radioquestion2
$radioanswer2

[boomcar68]

Did that like this $radioquestion3
$radioanswer3
$radioanswer3other

I can see the questions now with yes/no answer but still there is a error:
Do you have an AAOtracker Account, if yes write your AAOtracker name here
yes
6uy = Array['radioanswer6other'];


Where 6uy is my giving answer in explain block

[sylar]

Seems that the developer for this does not check it that often and atroll has graciously been answer a lot of questions.

Im in need of have the code on the form hook into the code for VB so that the new thread follows the permissions that I have set on the forum the post will be going into, email, poll, attachement , etc.

I have a quick work around but working on something more permanent. If I can come up with it I will share with everyone.

My requirements are to allow only VIP members and Registered uses with over 100 posts be able to post on the forums Im using the forms. Temporarily I am using this until I find a way to hook the form code to the forum code.

if( $vbulletin->userinfo['usergroupid'] <5 ) {
if($vbulletin->userinfo['posts']<100) {
echo 'Sorry, you can not post here as you need to have 100 posts, you only have '.$vbulletin->userinfo['posts'];
print_no_permission();
}
}

As an addendum, I previously had a time limit hack on this particular sub forum that allowed member to be able to only start 3 threads on a 30 day span. This hack is not playing well with it, not at all actually. Anyone have any idea how to edit the form to do this? (check to see if member or VIP has less or equal to 3 threads in 30 days and either allow or deny ability to start one?)

Thank you

[attroll]

Originally Posted by boomcar68

Did that like this $radioquestion3
$radioanswer3
$radioanswer3other

I can see the questions now with yes/no answer but still there is a error:
Do you have an AAOtracker Account, if yes write your AAOtracker name here
yes
6uy = Array['radioanswer6other'];


Where 6uy is my giving answer in explain block

In the plugin towards the bottom you will find a code like this

    {
        if ($normalanswer1 == '' OR $radioanswer1 == '' OR $radioanswer2 == '' OR $radioanswer3 == '' OR $answer1 == '' OR $answer2 == '' OR $answer3 == '' OR ($checkboxchoice1_1 AND $checkboxchoice1_2 AND $checkboxchoice1_3) OR $longanswer1 == '')

You need to make sure you added the "radioanswer6other" statements in there in the proper format.

[georg08]

Hello,
I'm using vB 3.6.8 Patch2 in the German Translation and I installed the original English Form Hack 4.0 Version with the parameters $formforum="1", $formforumid="10" and usergroups 2,5,6,7. ACP -> Plug-in [x] activated. But till now, I couldn't succeed in seeing the form in any place in my forum. The form never appears. What may be the reason?
Thanks and greetings
George

[zmmmzz]

you can see it if you enter this address

http://yoursite.com/forum/newthread.php?do=form

replace "yoursite" for your own domain and "forum" for the name of the folder in which you installed the forum.

[kursed]

I'm currently using vB 3.6.8 - whenever uploading a file, using this hack, it gives me an error; 'Could not create file system directory to hold your attachment.'

How can I correct this?

[kursed]

Also, it gives me the option to upload files as an administrator but not as a regular registered user. What might be the reason behind that?

[kursed]

Ok, I've managed to solve both of my above issues. There is just one thing left now. Is there anyway that I can make entries made through this hack to appear in a single thread, instead of it making a new thread every time someone submits it.