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

[dieselpowered]

Originally Posted by d3fuse

What I have done was use two IF statements. The first IF statement checks to see if the forum is meant for the form. If it is, it displays the newthread button to the form page. The second IF statement checks to see if the forum is NOT meant for the form. If it is not, it displays the regular new thread button.

Ahhh I see....two if statements instead of one if and one else

[dieselpowered]

Originally Posted by Shazz

2 plugins for this?

No we were discussing a conditional.

[novalogix]

Dear all,

i am getting this error with my mod and i can't figure out what is causing it.

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_STRING in /home/film/public_html/forum/newthread.php(70) : eval()'d code on line 689

it does this when i go to form and also when i go to my custom form.

[novalogix]

Originally Posted by novalogix

Dear all,

i am getting this error with my mod and i can't figure out what is causing it.

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_STRING in /home/film/public_html/forum/newthread.php(70) : eval()'d code on line 689

it does this when i go to form and also when i go to my custom form.

Pls ignore the previous post, i figured it was a typo i made in the template links.

I have a second problem now, when i fill up the form and hit submit, the post does not get added to the forum. Anyone knows what is causing this?

[dieselpowered]

Originally Posted by novalogix

Pls ignore the previous post, i figured it was a typo i made in the template links.

I have a second problem now, when i fill up the form and hit submit, the post does not get added to the forum. Anyone knows what is causing this?

Did you go through the plug-in and make the necessary changes to include what forum you want it to post in?

[R.Caldwell]

I can offer up $50-75 USD for anyone that can help me get the drop down forum list to work.

[novalogix]

Originally Posted by xtremeoff-road

Did you go through the plug-in and make the necessary changes to include what forum you want it to post in?

You mean the part where you give the forum ID? Yes, i did. it just brings me to the forum when i hit submit, but the post did not show.

[Lpspider]

I'd like to set thus up so whenever users post a reply in X forum, it will show the forum... can't seem to get it to work.

[ctrl-alt-del]

I can't seem to get more than 3 questions to work:

$question4 = "Question 4?";
$explain4 = "Please enter your URL here.";

$question5 = "Question 5?";
$explain5 = "Please enter your URL here.";

$question6 = "Question 6?";
$explain6 = "Please enter your URL here.";

I have defined them in part 1/2

'answer4' => TYPE_STR,
'answer5' => TYPE_STR,
'answer6' => TYPE_STR,

$answer4 = $vbulletin->GPC['answer4'];
$answer5 = $vbulletin->GPC['answer5'];
$answer6 = $vbulletin->GPC['answer6'];

and also modified the form and form answers:

<tr>
<td class="alt2" valign="middle">
<b>$question4</b>:<br />
$explain4</td>
<td class="alt2" valign="middle" colspan="2">
<input type="text" size="30" value="$answer4" name="answer4" /></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td class="alt2" valign="middle">
<b>$question5</b>:<br />
$explain5</td>
<td class="alt2" valign="middle" colspan="2">
<input type="text" size="30" value="$answer5" name="answer5" /></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td class="alt2" valign="middle">
<b>$question6</b>:<br />
$explain6</td>
<td class="alt2" valign="middle" colspan="2">
<input type="text" size="30" value="$answer6" name="answer6" /></td>
</tr>

$question4
$answer4

$question5
$answer5

$question6
$answer6

Am I missing something??

[ctrl-alt-del]

Okay, I figured out the problem above. However, another issue. Can someone assist me in figuring out how to place the formreplythreadid as a variable that can be called based on a value of a drop down box??

//EXISTING THREAD ID FOR FORM TO REPLY IN
$formreplythreadid = "$dropdownanswer2";