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tamarian: Who originally made this a vB hack for vB 3.5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

[Delw]

Spikeman Thank your very much for this, I was holding off upgrading until this mod was avail for 3.6.3, but couldnt wait any longer. got an email this am saying it was ready so now I can install it.
I will install it later today and try it out

Again thanks alot.
Delw

[Spikeman]

Originally Posted by janpetterdale

Thanks for fast response

I did have tables called survey_ and vbsurvey_ already in the database from
old addons. I probably tried the 3.5 version earlier.

Those tables are deleted now, but it still gives me the exact same error

Ok the easiest way to do this is to load the old script and uninstall it, otherwise you will need to go into other vb tables and I do not think you want to do that at this stage. If the uninstall does fail try to install the older version and then uninstall again. Then install vB3.6.3 version. Hope that makes sense.

[janpetterdale]

Originally Posted by Spikeman

Ok the easiest way to do this is to load the old script and uninstall it, otherwise you will need to go into other vb tables and I do not think you want to do that at this stage. If the uninstall does fail try to install the older version and then uninstall again. Then install vB3.6.3 version. Hope that makes sense.

I ran the vbsurvey_install.php script from 3.5 version, uninstalled it.
That worked, now 3.6 version is installed.

Thanks a lot

[Spikeman]

Originally Posted by janpetterdale

I ran the vbsurvey_install.php script from 3.5 version, uninstalled it.
That worked, now 3.6 version is installed.

Thanks a lot

Fantastic please hit that install button.

[TTG]

uh oh .. 13th click of the installed button ... is that gonna be good for me.

[Spikeman]

Originally Posted by TTG

uh oh .. 13th click of the installed button ... is that gonna be good for me.

lol, well I almost finished coding this on the 13th but i did not do the final touches until 14th! Superstitious! nah not me

[Delw]

Spikeman,
so far it works perfectly on my test board. I had a few permission problems but just for testing I changed them to 777.
took less than 10 mins to install with figureing out the permission problems.

I dont understand permissions that well so if someone can help me out on them I would appreciate it.
it wouldnt work for me under 744 but it could be cause I didnt have all my files at 744? Will try it later.

Didnt take long to install either.

one suggestion for us non coders and somewhat dence at time people ( like me )
you might want to put in your instructions that the survery folder needs to go into the forum dir and not below it

Unpack the included file
Copy survey.php to your main forum directory
Copy the survey directory below your forum directory (cannot change the directory name)

Again nice job
Delw

[Spikeman]

Originally Posted by Delw

Spikeman,
one suggestion for us non coders and somewhat dence at time people ( like me )
you might want to put in your instructions that the survery folder needs to go into the forum dir and not below it

Changed that now you will need to add userid to your permissions to allow users to take surveys and view results, default is 5,6 which is Admins and supermods, adding 2 will allow registered users, I shall change that in next update.

[Delw]

Thanks,
Forum permissions I dont have a problem too much with ,its server permissions lol

[StarBuG]

I get

Table 'dbname.vbsurvey_surveys' doesn't exist

when I try to call survey.php

In my db only survey_ tables exist, not vbsurvey.
I don't use prefixes for tables

StarBuG