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

[Elenna]

Kursed,

Yes, there is an option to have it reply to an existing thread.

Search for this text:

////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
//CHOOSE WHETHER YOU WANT FORM TO BE POSTED IN A NEW THREAD, NEW POLL, REPLY TO EXISITING THREAD, PMed OR EMAILED
///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////

A few lines under it, you'll see the following option:

////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
//ENABLE FORM TO REPLY TO EXISTING THREAD - 1 = yes, 0 = no
$formreply = "0";
//EXISTING THREAD ID FOR FORM TO REPLY IN
$formreplythreadid = "12345";
////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////

Set $formreply to 1, and set the $formreplythreadid to the thread ID of the thread you want the replies to continue to be posted to.

Note: You probably want to look just under the first text and turn off posting new thead, as I believe it might do both if you don't!

[Kwikms]

@sylar - I hope this one will work for me togehter with hits form hack - https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=96848


Does someone know how I could have the new topic created by this form automaticly be closed?

[RedGTiVR6]

Any word if this will work on 3.7?

[attroll]

Originally Posted by RedGTiVR6

Any word if this will work on 3.7?

Yes it works.

[DivineMessenger]

I keep getting an error in my newthread.php on line 395 and I have no idea why. Does anyone know what causes this? I change lil stuff and the error moves around a lil to different lines in that same file... any ideas?

[Kwikms]

@Divine - Could be everyting, like a forgotten ; or one " to much where it shouldnt be.

[Deep-X]

No Divine is right since version 3.6.8 patch 2 this now creates a new error in newthread.php on line 654 and such. I had to disable the hack to get it from displaying the error code on all new posts.

Please advise

[DivineMessenger]

I'll pay someone $10 to get mine working! lol

[AWMGolfer]

I'm using it on 3.7 with no problems and love it!!

[DivineMessenger]

Show off lol