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

[darkforce114]

Thank you, thank you Abe1!.

This is an awesome addition to the site. Keep em coming!.

[Abe1]

I just updated the zip file. It seems like it had the old xml file in it.

[steven s]

<font size="3">Outstanding!
Thank you!</font>

[jantequino]

Thank you Abe1!!!

I just want to verify something first....

I am currently running 3.7 Beta 5....
I do not plan to upgrade vBulletin until we have 3.7 Gold in our hands.

That being said, can I still use this newly updated Form Hack on my pre RC4 board?

Thanks!
J.J.

[Abe1]

Originally Posted by jantequino

Thank you Abe1!!!

I just want to verify something first....

I am currently running 3.7 Beta 5....
I do not plan to upgrade vBulletin until we have 3.7 Gold in our hands.

That being said, can I still use this newly updated Form Hack on my pre RC4 board?

Thanks!
J.J.

Yes.

You should upgrade now so you dont have any down time when you do go gold.

It wont affect anything.

[darkforce114]

Originally Posted by jantequino

Thank you Abe1!!!

I just want to verify something first....

I am currently running 3.7 Beta 5....
I do not plan to upgrade vBulletin until we have 3.7 Gold in our hands.

That being said, can I still use this newly updated Form Hack on my pre RC4 board?

Thanks!
J.J.

I can verify that it works on 3.7.0 RC4!

[vyrush]

can some one please tell me how to add more checkbox choices and question to this mod??
i did try editing the files.. but then i got and error saying..parse syntax.. eval'()33 .. something like tat.. please help.

[jantequino]

Abe1 I just downoaded 4.1 and saw your "Edits from version 4_0 to 4_1.txt" file....

If that's all we need to do, we don't actually need to REINSTALL 4.1, right?

We can just follow those instructions instead?

Thank you for being so responsive to this update! This hack is one of the primary components of my site and I'd be lost without it

Thank you very much!

[Abe1]

Originally Posted by jantequino

Abe1 I just downoaded 4.1 and saw your "Edits from version 4_0 to 4_1.txt" file....

If that's all we need to do, we don't actually need to REINSTALL 4.1, right?

We can just follow those instructions instead?

Thank you for being so responsive to this update! This hack is one of the primary components of my site and I'd be lost without it

Thank you very much!

Correct

[mike2567]

I tried making the form fit what I need. I have gone over all my edits and I can't find the problem. I am receiving this error

Parse error: parse error, unexpected T_CONSTANT_ENCAPSED_STRING, expecting ')' in /home/content/m/i/k/mike2567/html/forums/newthread.php(71) : eval()'d code on line 43

can anyone help me? I am totally new at this

Nevermind, I found it!