New Posting Features - Easy Forms v4.x - Create a form or multiple forms without php or html knowledge

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)

Screenshots
There are two posts full of screenshots of this modification

• https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost....64&postcount=3
• https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost....65&postcount=4

Installation

1. Download and then extract .zip archive
2. Upload the contents of upload folder to forum root
   (Allow Overwrite "YES" for overwrite)
   clientscript\easyforms.css -> \clientscript\
   clientscript\easyforms.js -> \clientscript\
3. Import product file (product-easyforms v4.0.xml) in admincp
   AdminCP -> Plugins & Products -> Manage Products -> [Add/Import Product]
4. Change usergroups permissions at:
   AdminCP -> vBulletin Options -> Easy Form Options

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
• Human verification question
• Custom Question (can query database or do whatever you want using php and html)
• Date (month/ day/ year fields)
• Address
• Scale

Form can Submit to:

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

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
• Quiz Mode

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[HM666]

Another question...How do i make a form highlight to a tab in the built in navigation other than the Forums tab?


EDIT: I have solved this myself with the following plugin code for those who might want to do this in the future.

PHP Code:

if ($GLOBALS['fid'] == '1')  $root = 'tab_abc_123'; 


Be sure to put the correct form id number where I have the number one & make sure that your tab_abc_123 is the tab of the tab you want to be highlighted.

[IggyP]

vb5 maybe almost ready...would love to see something like this for that

[HM666]

Originally Posted by IggyP

vb5 maybe almost ready...would love to see something like this for that

Don't hold your breath. bananalive rarely comes on here these days.

[wolfey]

I want to make a start of day checklist, that must be completed before user can view forum

Basically unless each answer equals "Yes" user will be banned status not able to proceed,
Once all questions "Yes" banned would be removed.

Can someone direct me to the hooks I would use?

[ne_one]

I've scanned through the message history but haven't been able to find any hints for this:

Is it possible to pre-populate the selected value of a dropdown or date using the hooks?

[audzilla]

Out of nowhere, I've recently had a form that started giving the following error:

Form failed to submit. The following error(s) occured:
Please complete both the subject and message fields.

More specifics about behavior:
* I'm running 4.2.3 patch 1, php5.4, and the current version of Easy Forms
* If I fill out a form entirely with the word "test" it succeeds; if I use huge blocks of Lorem Ipsum it's fine; if I use "real" content (which is not in any way weird, but is pasted from google docs and potentially carrying formatting tags?) I get the error.
* There is no conflict in {q_*} tags between different forms, unless something has gotten scrambled on the back end and reassigned numbers around.
* This just started happening in the last week when my webhost depricated php5.3 and pushed us to 5.4.

Update: It chokes on copied characters from text editors such as fancy "smart quotes" or a condensed ellipses. It used to handle these gracefully but no longer!

[bananalive]

Originally Posted by audzilla

Out of nowhere, I've recently had a form that started giving the following error:

Form failed to submit. The following error(s) occured:
Please complete both the subject and message fields.

More specifics about behavior:
* I'm running 4.2.3 patch 1, php5.4, and the current version of Easy Forms
* If I fill out a form entirely with the word "test" it succeeds; if I use huge blocks of Lorem Ipsum it's fine; if I use "real" content (which is not in any way weird, but is pasted from google docs and potentially carrying formatting tags?) I get the error.
* There is no conflict in {q_*} tags between different forms, unless something has gotten scrambled on the back end and reassigned numbers around.
* This just started happening in the last week when my webhost depricated php5.3 and pushed us to 5.4.


Update: It chokes on copied characters from text editors such as fancy "smart quotes" or a condensed ellipses. It used to handle these gracefully but no longer!

Try attached.

[bananalive]

Originally Posted by ne_one

I've scanned through the message history but haven't been able to find any hints for this:

Is it possible to pre-populate the selected value of a dropdown or date using the hooks?

Form Hook: Form Start:

PHP Code:

if (!$qo)
{
$q['70'] = "Yes";
$qo['70'] = "Yes";
$qa['70'] = "Yes";
} 


[ne_one]

Originally Posted by audzilla

Out of nowhere, I've recently had a form that started giving the following error:

Form failed to submit. The following error(s) occured:
Please complete both the subject and message fields.

More specifics about behavior:
* I'm running 4.2.3 patch 1, php5.4, and the current version of Easy Forms
* If I fill out a form entirely with the word "test" it succeeds; if I use huge blocks of Lorem Ipsum it's fine; if I use "real" content (which is not in any way weird, but is pasted from google docs and potentially carrying formatting tags?) I get the error.
* There is no conflict in {q_*} tags between different forms, unless something has gotten scrambled on the back end and reassigned numbers around.
* This just started happening in the last week when my webhost depricated php5.3 and pushed us to 5.4.


Update: It chokes on copied characters from text editors such as fancy "smart quotes" or a condensed ellipses. It used to handle these gracefully but no longer!

Can you confirm if the update addressed this issue?

I've just encountered the same problem when special characters are used for quotes.

Note: I attempted to drop in the same updated code with my existing form and it resulted in a database error.

[Ov3rrun]

Hi, great mod! Is there a way to make compatible with mobile style?