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

[MRGTB]

this can be played around with to use as an article submission form etc. Quite neat.

[ChrisBaktis]

Originally Posted by thalamus

The only thing I can think of is that the initial variables are set when the action of the form is set to 'do form'... perhaps at the beginning of the script, where it says:

if ($_REQUEST['do'] == $formname)
{

add a "$bbuserinfo = $vbulletin->userinfo;" instruction just after the opening brace before it goes on to define the custom variables?

YES!!! Thank you!

[halpern]

Ok. I am not really a programmer so I am looking for some help. I have installed this into my Vbulletin 3.6.1. I want to have it email the results to the sysadmin, that would be me. What hook do I need to make the form? The default one is newthread_start but I am sure that I change that if I am sending a PM. Am I correct in saying that? Also, I do not have permission to view the thread that was created when I was testing the form. Why is this? I added id 6 in the array function to allow me (admin) access.

[ChrisBaktis]

Originally Posted by ChrisBaktis

YES!!! Thank you!

spoke to soon - your suggestion solved teh problem but created another...

for some reason whenever a member clicked on a the New Thread button it went to the form... crazy I know...When I hover over the new thread button it didnt give that URL it gave teh URL for the new thread but when you clicked on it it goes to the form for some reason - I removed the line you gave me and that problem was corrected....this is the wierdest problem I have ever come across with a hack.

[ChrisBaktis]

Corrected my own problem - originally I put the code before the { - I reread your post and realized I had to put it after it. Problem solved.

[dieselpowered]

Alright, I must be a fool, however, I cannot get the form the way I want it.

I simply want to be able to make a form like this:

Year
Make
Model
Date
Text Box

All text areas...is this possible?

I tried to copy of couple of these but it did not work:

$normalquestion1 = "Year";

Sorry for the ignorance!

[Shazz]

*Clicks install...
Ill try this out

[ChrisBaktis]

Originally Posted by xtremeoff-road

Alright, I must be a fool, however, I cannot get the form the way I want it.

I simply want to be able to make a form like this:

Year
Make
Model
Date
Text Box

All text areas...is this possible?

I tried to copy of couple of these but it did not work:

$normalquestion1 = "Year";

Sorry for the ignorance!

Your variables would have to be like this:

// Part 1
$vbulletin->input->clean_array_gpc('p', array(
'normalanswer1' => TYPE_STR,
'normalanswer2' => TYPE_STR,
'normalanswer3' => TYPE_STR,
'normalanswer4' => TYPE_STR,
'longanswer1' => TYPE_STR

));

// Part 2
$normalanswer1 = $vbulletin->GPC['normalanswer1'];
$normalanswer2 = $vbulletin->GPC['normalanswer2'];
$normalanswer3 = $vbulletin->GPC['normalanswer3'];
$normalanswer4 = $vbulletin->GPC['normalanswer4'];
$longanswer1 = $vbulletin->GPC['longanswer1'];

This will give you the 4 Nomral sized text boxes and then a big text area for your 5th item. You can just copy and paste the Normal Question area in the code and change the info in them.

[Kayden]

Installed. Thanks.

[Mirage Guardian]

after installing, I got a database error when I call "newthread.php?do=form"

Database error in vBulletin 3.6.1:

Invalid SQL:
SELECT * FROM forumpermission
WHERE ( forumid IN() AND usergroupid IN (6)) AND
(maxthread=0 AND perhour=0);

MySQL Error : You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near ') AND usergroupid IN (6)) AND
(maxthread=0 AND perhour=0)' at line 2
Error Number : 1064

The normal "newthread.php" syntax is:
http://my/forum/path/newthread.php?do=newthread&f=2
and when i call "newthread.php?do=form&f=2", the form start, but never submit and give the same database error.

What shall i do?