Major Additions - vB Survey: Add a full-featured survey tool to your forum

What this hack does:

This hack will add a full featured survey application system to your forum. You can survey your members opinions on various topics, or allow usergroups to create their own surveys.

Credits: John W. Holmes: Author of UCCASS Survey.
tamarian who initially released this hack for vB3.0 - 3.5 before I ported it to 3.6 - 3.8 outstanding work by him.

Application Features: See the UCCASS site for full details.

http://www.bigredspark.com/survey.html

The UCCASS offers some advanced features such as branching conditionals (allows hiding/displaying questions based on specific answers), result filtrations and much more.

Integration features:
Replaced authentication with VB's user database
Set permissions per usergroup, for admin/edit/create/take and view results priviliges.
Replaced config files with vB admin settings
Applied vB style to the UCCASS templates (it uses Smarty)

vB Survey added features: (some will be ported back to UCCASS)
Added anonymity option. If a survey is not anonymous, members can see how other members answered.
Added Hide/unhide survey option. This is useful to send surveys to specific users or usergroups.
Added Date answer types (D), with dropdown lists for day, month, year to ensure correct date entry.
Added REGEX control for new answer types, to control the answer format.
Added size control for single like text answers and REGEX answers.

Liscense: The original UCCASS Survey application is released under a modified GPL Liscense (Aferro GPL) : http://www.bigredspark.com/survey/license.txt (or look under the /docs directory in the zip file)

Installation difficulty:
2 mins, all done via product file.

Installation:

* Unpack the included file
* Copy survey.php to your main forum directory
* Copy the survey directory into your forum directory (cannot change the directory name)
* Install the Product-Survey.xml
* The product file will also install all data for the 2 default surveys to get you started.
* Go to AdminCP => vBulletin Options => Survey System Options - and set the options for access and other settings
* If you get permission errors, change file permissions for the survey directory and its contents to 744, and the owner/group to apache:apache (or, some servers are setup to nobody:nobody):

cd /path/to/main/forum

chown -R apache:apache survey

chmod -R 744 survey

Notes:

1. The "do not remove" comment on the copyright link in the footer is from the original UCCASS footer template. You may contact the original author, John W. Holmes, for permission to remove the copyright notice, he's willing to talk according to their support forum.
2. If you use FTP to upload the survey directory, you might have problems with subdirectories under /survey/smarty/template_c due to the directory names with % signs. In this case, you can delete all the directories under template_c (but not the template_c directory itself). Those subdirectories will be recreated automatically when the templates are read.


Please click Install if you have installed this mod.


1. All tables, templates, phrases etc are installed via product file.
2. Support for wol has been added.
3. Some bugs fixed with the UCCASS system

I would grateful if you did click Install if you use it. Remember you only get notified of updates if you Install

Demo Here :- http://www.beta-tester.co.uk/iphone/survey.php please note the Demo may have restrictions as it is a live board. You may or may not be able to test the survey as a guest, this will not affect your sites as generally why would you want guests taking a survey on your site, you would never get a true survey result, I have only enabled this on my board so as to get the ball rolling and you guys can see it. you should all be able to see results page though.

If you have the older 3.5 Hack installed you MUST uninstall that before installing 3.8

Translations:-
Arabic - patch developer

[Bergler]

Is anyone willing to covert this to 4.1.2? I would be will to pay someone, I really need this option.

[Bergler]

Originally Posted by Bergler

Is anyone willing to covert this to 4.1.2? I would be will to pay someone, I really need this option.

Someone must be willing to convert to vb 4.1.2 for cash?

[Lpspider]

Is it possible to enable it so the admin can see results from users?

For my survey needs I ask users a handful of questions where I need to know there identities... suggestions appreciated.

[Bergler]

Is anyone willing to covert this to 4.1.2? I would be will to pay someone, I really need this option.

[Sevo]

when I put in www.myboards.com/survey.php I get this

nput->clean_array_gpc('r', array( 'do' => TYPE_STR, 'sid' => TYPE_INT, 'aid' => TYPE_INT)); if (empty($vbulletin->GPC['do'])) $vbulletin->GPC['do'] = 'main'; $sid = intval($vbulletin->GPC['sid']); $navbits = array("survey.php?$session[sessionurl]" => 'Survey'); $vbulletin->userinfo['can_admin_surveys'] = in_array($bbuserinfo['usergroupid'], explode(',', $vbulletin->options['vb_survey_admin_groups'])); $vbulletin->userinfo['can_edit_surveys'] = in_array($vbulletin->userinfo['usergroupid'], explode(',', $vbulletin->options['vb_survey_edit_groups'])); $vbulletin->userinfo['can_create_surveys'] = in_array($vbulletin->userinfo['usergroupid'], explode(',', $vbulletin->options['vb_survey_create_groups'])); $vbulletin->userinfo['can_take_surveys'] = in_array($vbulletin->userinfo['usergroupid'], explode(',', $vbulletin->options['vb_survey_take_groups'])); $vbulletin->userinfo['can_view_survey_results'] = in_array($vbulletin->userinfo['usergroupid'], explode(',', $vbulletin->options['vb_survey_result_groups'])); if ($vbulletin->userinfo['userid']==0) { // override permissions for guests, since userid zero is messy // They can only see the results, if allowed in the admincp settings $vbulletin->userinfo['can_admin_surveys'] = 0; $vbulletin->userinfo['can_take_surveys'] = 0; $vbulletin->userinfo['can_create_surveys'] = 0; $vbulletin->userinfo['can_edit_surveys'] = 0; } if ($vbulletin->GPC['do'] == 'main'){ include('survey/classes/survey.class.php'); $navbits[''] = 'Available Surveys'; $survey = new UCCASS_Survey; $body = $survey->available_surveys(); } elseif ($vbulletin->GPC['do'] == 'take'){ include('survey/classes/survey.class.php'); $navbits[''] = 'Answer Survey'; $survey = new UCCASS_Survey; $body = $survey->take_survey($sid); } elseif ($vbulletin->GPC['do'] == 'results'){ include('survey/classes/results.class.php'); $navbits[''] = 'Survey Results'; $survey = new UCCASS_Results; $body = $survey->survey_results($sid); } elseif ($vbulletin->GPC['do'] == 'edit_survey'){ include('survey/classes/editsurvey.class.php'); $navbits[''] = 'Edit Survey'; $editSurvey = new UCCASS_EditSurvey; $body = $editSurvey->show($sid); } elseif ($vbulletin->GPC['do'] == 'filter'){ include('survey/classes/results.class.php'); $navbits[''] = 'Filter Results'; $survey = new UCCASS_Results; $body = $survey->filter($sid); } elseif ($vbulletin->GPC['do'] == 'display_answers'){ $navbits[''] = 'Display Answers'; $survey = new UCCASS_Main; $body = $survey->display_answers($sid); } elseif ($vbulletin->GPC['do'] == 'edit_answer'){ include('survey/classes/answertypes.class.php'); $navbits[''] = 'Edit Answer Types'; $aid = intval($vbulletin->GPC['aid']); $survey = new UCCASS_AnswerTypes; $body = $survey->edit_answer($sid,$aid); } elseif ($vbulletin->GPC['do'] == 'new_answer_type'){ include('survey/classes/answertypes.class.php'); $navbits[''] = 'New Answer Type'; $survey = new UCCASS_AnswerTypes; $body = $survey->new_answer_type($sid); } elseif ($vbulletin->GPC['do'] == 'new_survey'){ include('survey/classes/newsurvey.class.php'); $navbits[''] = 'New Survey'; $survey = new UCCASS_NewSurvey; $body = $survey->new_survey(); } elseif ($vbulletin->GPC['do'] == 'results_csv'){ include('survey/classes/special_results.class.php'); $et = $vbulletin->GPC['export_type']; $survey = new UCCASS_Special_Results; echo $survey->results_csv($sid,$et); exit; } elseif ($vbulletin->GPC['do'] == 'results_table'){ include('survey/classes/special_results.class.php'); $navbits[''] = 'Results Table'; $survey = new UCCASS_Special_Results; $body = $survey->results_table($sid); } else { include('survey/classes/survey.class.php'); $navbits[''] = 'Available Surveys'; $survey = new UCCASS_Survey; $body = $survey->available_surveys(); } $navbits = construct_navbits($navbits); eval('$navbar = "' . fetch_template('navbar') . '";'); eval('print_output("' . fetch_template('vbsurvey') . '");'); ?>

Any ideas what I have done wrong?

[Lpspider]

I'm having a problem. On page two some members cannot progress to the next page - it just refreshes the current one. Any idea what might cause this?

[Spinball]

Looks like there is no support for this mod.
But just in case...

I edited the results.tpl as the margin-left:25px; in there throws the table rows out of whack.
A very minor problem.

But then when I FTP'd the results.tpl up, I then get an error when trying to view results:

Warning: chmod() [function.chmod]: Operation not permitted in [path]/survey/smarty/Smarty.class.php on line 1454

Warning: require_once(SMARTY_CORE_DIRcore.load_plugins.php) [function.require-once]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in [path]/survey/smarty/templates_c/Default^results.tpl on line 3

Fatal error: require_once() [function.require]: Failed opening required 'SMARTY_CORE_DIRcore.load_plugins.php' (include_path='.:/usr/share/pear:/usr/share/php') in /home/sites/avforums/public_html/forums/survey/smarty/templates_c/Default^results.tpl on line 3

Please help!

[Alfa1]

Please port this to the CMS. The CMS is a much better place for surveys.

[TheSpetsnaz]

Hey does this work the current version of Vbulletin?
4.1.x or so?

[bentwood]

Originally Posted by Alfa1

Please port this to the CMS. The CMS is a much better place for surveys.

What do you mean that the CMS is a better place? Does the CMS have this capability?

Sorry but I am new to the product.