New Posting Features - Easy Forms - Create a form or multiple forms without php or html knowledge

EASY FORMS FOR vB 4.x here

Easily create forms with no HTML or PHP knowledge. Questions can be made compulsory and are checked before the form is submitted. Forms can be previewed. (You can create multiple forms)

Backwards compatible with vb v3.7.x and 3.6.8

Example Form | Help File | Version History

Question Types:

• Single line text
• Multi-line text
• Multi-select checkboxes
• Single-select radio buttons
• Single Select Dropdown
• Yes/No
• Multi-line text field using vbeditor (max one per form - limited by vB)
• Human verification question
• Custom Question (can query database or do whatever you want)
• Date (month/ day/ year fields)

Form can Submit to:

• new thread in forum
• new post in thread
• new pm to user
• email address
• save to database

Installation:

• Just Import the Product File
• Set usergroups options
  admincp -> vboptions -> Easy Form Options
• View/Create forms at
  http://your-forum.com/forums/misc.php?do=forms
• Click installed to get latest updates

More Features:

• Form list categories (optional)
• Preview form (can disable for individual forms)
• Optional questions
• Form Sections
• Prefix support - you can choose which prefix you want thread to have
• Different thread/pm title to form title with variables {username} {userid} and {q_1} (replacing 1 with appropriate question number)
• Poll Options: Multiple choice, public vote, poll question, poll options, poll timeout
• Regular expression match for single line text input field
• Usergroup permissions per form
• Forumid/threadid/username can be specified by input via {value=X} in dropdown, single line input or radio buttons
• Multiple dropdown select for form usergroup permissions (still optional - leave blank to not use)
• Option to show link to form list in navbar and quick links (separate options)
• Import/ Export your forms as XML files - great for transferring forms across forums or creating backups
• Specify bbcode for questions/ answers/ sections for the form's output
• Form Hooks: (uses php code)
  1. Before form submitted
     Useful for: your own form validation, multiple form outputs, etc.
  2. At form start
     Useful for: banning userids/usergroups from form, setting minimum post count,etc.
• Attachments allowed for posting new thread
• Mass Copy Forms & their questions

Coming soon:

• Allow attachments for posting in thread

Translations:

• French/ Fran?aise http://www.vbulletin-ressources.com/...apides-t14717/

[nlwin]

Hey buddy, this is definitely a great add-on, and I have installed it on my vb3, one of the large boards. All Admins and Mods love this add-on. Would you be considering to add reCaptcha option to your plugin in the future release for vb3 series?

Thanks again for your great contribution.

[viper357]

Hi bananalive, Does this work seamlessly with your Articles mod?

[pattycake]

Originally Posted by Vitaly

Wow! Helpfile . Product seems to become solid .

May be, question _content_ macro ? That's not absilutely necessary, but convenient: no needs to duplicate text in template, and no needs to syncronise template when you clarify question text.

Example:

----------
Question1text: {q_1}
Question2text: {q_1}
----------

Will be:
----------
{qn_1}: {q1}
{qn_2}: {q2}
----------

No ideas about macro name. Just an example.

None of this works....
If you put {q_1} in the email body, it gets changed to $[q_1] and does not show the answer to question 1. Ditto for {q1} - shows nothing when the email gets sent.

{qn_1} in the email body does nothing, displays nothing when the email gets sent.

[pattycake]

Originally Posted by bananalive

$q[1] is the new format for v3.x

Use $qo[1] for drop down menu

$qn[8] to show question 1 eg. Age
$q[8] $qo[8] to show question 1 answer eg. 45

And make sure you are using the # of the question eg. 8 not 2(see screenshot)

I can't for the life of me figure out how to output the question and the answer in the custom email output for a radio button.
I have tried:
{qn_1}
{q1}
{qo_1}
$qo[1]
$qo[1]
{qo1}
$q[1] {a_1}

None of this works.

[pattycake]

Originally Posted by pattycake

I can't for the life of me figure out how to output the question and the answer in the custom email output for a radio button.
I have tried:
{qn_1}
{q1}
{qo_1}
$qo[1]
$qo[1]
{qo1}
$q[1] {a_1}

None of this works.

Never mind. I figured it out. I was using {q_1} becuase it was the first question in that particular form.
It was question #16 though of ALL questions of ALL forms.
Once I changed the "{q_1}" to "{q_16}", everything worked.

[singabaloo]

I'm using Easy Forms 3.7 on a 3.8.5 VB install. I've had Easy Forms running for a while ands it's been great, but my forms were/are very basic.

The form(s) create a new thread in a forum when they are submitted. At the moment I ask people to fill in their Username, path to their public profile and even do some simple maths (like field 3 = Field 1 - Field2)

Is there a way I can get Easy Forms to populate some of those fields/questions for me instead of asking the User to fill it in ? I imagine {userrname} and something like

 [URL="$vboptions[bburl]/member.php?u=$user_userid"]

for the username and public transport, but I can't work out how I can make the form return these values and add it to the post created by the form submission.

Is there a simple way to do it that I can't see, or is it going to require some PHP coding ?

[Simon Lloyd]

For the username to be entered put this in the php code box for the answer

PHP Code:

$answer = '<input type="text" readonly="readonly" id="q_' . $formbit[id] . '" name="' . $formbit[id] . '" value="' . $vbulletin->userinfo[username] . '" />'; 


[singabaloo]

Thanks, that worked nicely.

I managed to pull gender out too following your example.

Time to try the profile URL.

Thanks again.

[singabaloo]

I keep being impressed by Easy Forms. Thanks bananalive and Simon for the pointer on pulling DB fields out. I even took a leap of faith and found I could get more complicated results. here's my current effort for grabbing the Gender but displaying just for the first letter.

PHP Code:

$tgen = $vbulletin->userinfo[field6];
if ($tgen=='Male') {$gen = 'M';
    }
elseif ($tgen=='Female') {$gen = 'F';
    }
else {$gen = '';}
$answer = '<input type="text" readonly="readonly" id="q_' . $formbit[id] . '" name="' . $formbit[id] . '" value="' . $gen . '" />'; 


I'm sure someone could cut that down to 1 line but I'm not fussed.

One question I have is the custom layout. What this particular form does is grab information from a user that an admin will use to add to a table we have on the site. It's a bit manual at the moment but if I could some how format the output like this:

[ url={q_2}]{q_1}[ /url]|{q_3}|{q_4}|{q_5}|{q_6}|{q_7}|[ URL={q_8}]Diary [/URL]

then everyone's life would become a lot easier.

Actually, what would be perfect is to use the default layout and then tack the above example at the bottom so the admin just needs to copy and then paste and it's all done.

I can't find any examples of custom templates that I can start to hack away with so if anyone knows how to do the above, or could point me to some examples, that would be great.

[singabaloo]

Is there any way I can get the "Form Output Top" to include some of the form answers ?

I can get {formtitle} which is a fixed value for each form. Ideally I want to be able to have the form output to parse the values of {q_1}:{q_2}