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tamarian: Who originally made this a vB hack for vB 3.5

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:

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.

Please click Install if you have installed this mod.

I personally do not claim credit for this hack, however this is what I have done to port over to 3.6.3 :-

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

This hack is for 3.6.3 not 3.5, the 3.5 version can be seen and downloaded here this will not upgrade the 3.5 version.

I did obtain the permission from tamarian to port this to 3.6.

This is my first big hack here so 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.internetwatchers.co.uk/forums/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 3.6.3

vB Survey for vB 3.0 version by tamarian
vB Survey for vB 3.5 version by tamarian

[Lea Verou]

Thanks a lot!
Btw I have an issue, right now, a member took the survey and it's not anonymous. However, his name did not show up in the table as the others. What could be the cause?
Also, do you know how can I make the questions in the table view of the results smaller? the table is huge! I tried to find it myself but the code is huge and it doesn't work with vb templates...

Thanks a lot in advance

[rjdpa]

Is it possible to show the user names, then their answers? I checked all of the permissions and settings and can't find a way to display the user names if the survey is NOT anonymous.

Also, is it possible to show all answers instead of clicking "View Answer" for each question WITHOUT having to do some kind of export?

Thanks

[molieman]

I apologize in advance if this is a old topic I may of missed.

First of all, Survey worked fantastic until we moved to a new server. We made sure all the directories chmod was set, according to the installation instructions.

We're now getting the following error:

Warning: Smarty error: unable to read template resource: "Default/available_surveys.tpl" in /survey/smarty/Smarty.class.php on line 589

We've tried all sorts of combinations of chmod settings, and went from worse back to the above error.

Probably something simple we're missing You're guidance will be greatly appreciated

Matt Olieman
www.mycockpit.org
http://www.mycockpit.org/forums/survey.php

[M_Portiss]

Could someone please help me? I have followed the directions (atleast I THOUGHT I had) however, when I go to http://www.myforumname.com/forums/survey.php, I get only a blank screen. I have changed my server permissions, and my usergroup permissions are also set correctly.

Any help, please?!

[TomasDR]

I am having a problem with the usage of the survey mod.

I followed all of the instructions and read every post, but I have a new problem.

I get the main survey screen with the two sample surveys, I have permissions setup correctly and I can see "Edit Surveys" and the link for "Create New Survey", and I confirmed the options in the admincp.

My problem: When I click on any link; take survey, view results, edit, or new survey it returns me back to the main survey screen. The address bar shows what I presume to be the correct address(es) with variables but I just get to see the main survey screen over & over. The only links that work are the documentation and the copyright links.

/forum/survey.php?&do=take&sid=5
/forum/survey.php?&do=results&sid=5
/forum/survey.php?do=edit_survey&sid=5&submit=Edit+Survey
/forum/survey.php?do=new_survey

I have installed it twice, twice in a row, and then uninstalled and re-installed the product. I confirmed every file is uploaded and the chmod/chown was done.

Any thoughts?

[Spikeman]

Originally Posted by Michelle

Thanks a lot!
Btw I have an issue, right now, a member took the survey and it's not anonymous. However, his name did not show up in the table as the others. What could be the cause?
Also, do you know how can I make the questions in the table view of the results smaller? the table is huge! I tried to find it myself but the code is huge and it doesn't work with vb templates...

Thanks a lot in advance

Originally Posted by rjdpa

Is it possible to show the user names, then their answers? I checked all of the permissions and settings and can't find a way to display the user names if the survey is NOT anonymous.


Also, is it possible to show all answers instead of clicking "View Answer" for each question WITHOUT having to do some kind of export?

Thanks

Originally Posted by molieman

I apologize in advance if this is a old topic I may of missed.

First of all, Survey worked fantastic until we moved to a new server. We made sure all the directories chmod was set, according to the installation instructions.

We're now getting the following error:

Warning: Smarty error: unable to read template resource: "Default/available_surveys.tpl" in /survey/smarty/Smarty.class.php on line 589

We've tried all sorts of combinations of chmod settings, and went from worse back to the above error.

Probably something simple we're missing You're guidance will be greatly appreciated

Matt Olieman
www.mycockpit.org
http://www.mycockpit.org/forums/survey.php

Originally Posted by M_Portiss

Could someone please help me? I have followed the directions (atleast I THOUGHT I had) however, when I go to http://www.myforumname.com/forums/survey.php, I get only a blank screen. I have changed my server permissions, and my usergroup permissions are also set correctly.

Any help, please?!

Originally Posted by TomasDR

I am having a problem with the usage of the survey mod.

I followed all of the instructions and read every post, but I have a new problem.

I get the main survey screen with the two sample surveys, I have permissions setup correctly and I can see "Edit Surveys" and the link for "Create New Survey", and I confirmed the options in the admincp.

My problem: When I click on any link; take survey, view results, edit, or new survey it returns me back to the main survey screen. The address bar shows what I presume to be the correct address(es) with variables but I just get to see the main survey screen over & over. The only links that work are the documentation and the copyright links.

/forum/survey.php?&do=take&sid=5
/forum/survey.php?&do=results&sid=5
/forum/survey.php?do=edit_survey&sid=5&submit=Edit+Survey
/forum/survey.php?do=new_survey

I have installed it twice, twice in a row, and then uninstalled and re-installed the product. I confirmed every file is uploaded and the chmod/chown was done.

Any thoughts?

I will address all these questions and problems over this coming weekend, pinned down at work right now, please bare with me

[LRadunz]

Hello.

This is an excellent hack/mod.

Thanks much.

[Tigratrus]

Great stuff. Very powerful, I did have a problem with permissions even after chmodding them to 744, but I think I worked around it.

Quick question? There are no currency answer types or float/int numericals? The only numerical values are 0-10 or 10+. We'd like to be able to gather some financial answers and average them? It looks like you can use REGEX values to add some in, but I'm afraid REGEX baffles me a bit. I gave it a try but can't seem to get the syntax right, even looked at the convieninetly link ref ... Can anyone take pity on the REGEX challenged? Please?

TIA for any help!

James and Susan

[Bernd Glasstett]

It really is something, what I don't understand. This is such a great tool, I would love to use it, but can't, unless I provide my own translation. Why can't it just use the phrase-tools from VBB? Why is this so difficult for the programmers to work out plugins, which can be translated easily? There isn't only englisch speaking folks around here. Most of my users won't use the surveys, just because they don't know english. *sigh*

[COBRAws]

I can not find vbsurvey_install.php anywhere on the zip file