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

A 3.6.x version by spikeman is posted here:
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=131650


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.

Application Features: See the UCCASS site for full details. After testing several survey apps, I find this one to be the best:

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:
o File changes: None
o DB changes: No changes, 19 new tables

Installation:

• Unpack the included file
• Copy vbsurvey_install.php to your admincp directory
• Copy survey.php to your main forum directory
• Copy the survey directory below your forum directory (cannot change the directory name)
• run the vbsurvey_install.php script in the admincp directory
• Go to AdminCP => vBulletin Options => vB Survey (UCCASS) and set the toptions for acess 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

Upgrade Instructions:
If you are upgrading from vB 3.0.x to vB 3.5 and already had this hack installed, all you need to do is download the zip file, and re-uploade all the files to over-write the old ones.

Added in v1.7.1 (August 26th, 2005

• Hide edit menu if user not allowed to edit surveys.

Added in v1.7 (August 7th, 2005

• Bug fix in editing answer types.

Added in v1.6 (June 12th, 2005

• Upgraded for vB 3.5 beta
• Upgrad instructions: If you already have vB Survey 1.5 installed, you just need to upload all files, but no need to run the upgrade script.

Added in v1.5 (June 7th, 2005

• Added a new answer type R, for Regular Expressions (REGEX). This will allow new types to be defined for answers, with controlled format. If the question is required, users will receive an error messages, until they enter the proper format. If the question is optional, the users will only get an error if they try to answer the question, but with the wrong format.
  Note: You can disable REGEX type questions by editing the templates.
• The Size of type 'S' (Sentence) can now be changed, and no longer hardcoded as 50 characters.
• To upgrade, you will need to run the upgrade option in the installation script and re-upload all the files.

Added in v1.3 (June 5th, 2005

• Added a new answer type D, for Dates. This will show 3 dropdown lists for day, month, year, to ensure a uniform formate for dates entered by the user, instead of a text box.
• Fixed a bug in the anonymous message display. It would state survey is not anonymous, when it actually is.
• To upgrade, just re-upload the files (classes and templates directories)

Added in v1.2 (June 4th, 2005)

• Removed the "Previous page" button, if the page is the first page of a survey.
• Answers in the new/edit answer page are sorted by the numeric value. This allows you to add a later value, but set the order higher, without re-editing the whole list to arrange it.
• Fixed a bug in quotes and escapes in the answer types edit.
• Upgrade instructions: Just re-upload the classes directory.

Added in v1.1 (June 4th, 2005)

• Added anonymity option. This is decided when creating the survey. Once set, it cannot be changed. If the survey is not anonymous, users will see on the survey intro a message that they survey is not anonymous, and that their usernames will show in the results table. The results table will show the usernames and a link to their profile.
• Added Hidden option: By default, all active surveys show up on the main page as available surveys. If you set the survey propert to hidden, the survey can still be active, but not show up for members. This can be useful if you want to email the link to a selected user group. Admins and the survey author will still be able to see hidden surveys.
• Navbar update to list the various locations in the survey pages.
• The previous version showed the "no permission" to guests. Now you can allow guests to view the surveys and results by putting usergoup 0 in the admin panel in usergroups who may see the results. But other priviliges will be ignored.
• A couple of bug fixes
• Upgrade instructions: Just re-upload all the files, including survey.php

Notes:
The "do not remove" comment on the copyright link in the footer is from the original UCCASS footer template. You may contac the original author, John W. Holmes, for permission to remove the copyright notice, he's willing to talk according to their support forum.

Please click Install if you have installed this mod.

[subnet_rx]

the only chmod instructions I see are making survey.php 744, which I have done that. I also uploaded everything in the forum folder.

[tamarian]

Originally Posted by subnet_rx

the only chmod instructions I see are making survey.php 744, which I have done that.

No, it's for the entire survey directory.

* 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

[subnet_rx]

Still nothing. I couldn't execute the chown command, but this worked perfectly on 3.x without any of this. Default permissions on my server is 755 on folders and 644 for files.

[Onimua]

Not sure if it's been mentioned (large thread, bit too much reading for me), but for some reason isn't working with my sub-domain.

For example, I have the following: http://sub.domain.com/survey.php

However, when I click anything, it will suddenly switch to: http://www.domain.com/survey.php [or anything I click, like even: http://www.marchosis.com/survey.php?do=new_survey ]

For some reason it won't stay on the subdomain but switch to the domain itself. Did I do something wrong? :ermm:

[tamarian]

Originally Posted by Onimua

Not sure if it's been mentioned (large thread, bit too much reading for me), but for some reason isn't working with my sub-domain.

For example, I have the following: http://sub.domain.com/survey.php

However, when I click anything, it will suddenly switch to: http://www.domain.com/survey.php [or anything I click, like even: http://www.marchosis.com/survey.php?do=new_survey ]

For some reason it won't stay on the subdomain but switch to the domain itself. Did I do something wrong? :ermm:

It was meant to run on your forum URL.

[Onimua]

Originally Posted by tamarian

It was meant to run on your forum URL.

That's what I mean't. It's if I edit the URL manually (checked) fine, but the URL changes from my forum URL to my regular URL whenever I click something. It loses the subdomain part (and my forums are on my subdomain).

[tamarian]

Originally Posted by Onimua

That's what I mean't. It's if I edit the URL manually (checked) fine, but the URL changes from my forum URL to my regular URL whenever I click something. It loses the subdomain part (and my forums are on my subdomain).

Check your vBulletin Options -> Site Name/URL and make sure your forum URL is using that subdomain.

[Onimua]

Originally Posted by tamarian

Check your vBulletin Options -> Site Name/URL and make sure your forum URL is using that subdomain.

Thought it was correct when I installed it; oh well... works now, thanks.

[Ozster]

im told by our server admin that the permissions are automatically set to give me write permissions (windows server), when i go to survey.php and click any link it just refreshes

[mikadit]

This mod is quite interesting, a great work.
I have just a question about the unistaling part. If I'd like to unistall the mod, do I have to delete the new db tables and delete the uploaded files to go back to my original forum' set? Just it or something more?

- Edit ---------
Ok, founded by myself, by reading the code of the vbsurvey_install.php file, everything is automated by running the vbsurvey_install.php itself, install and unistall options are integrated in the same file. Clear and smooth.