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tamarian: Who originally made this a vB hack for vB 3.5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

[pauldack]

Originally Posted by powerful_rogue

Ive just removed

dependencies>
<dependency dependencytype="vbulletin" minversion="3.6.0" maxversion="3.6.99"></dependency>
</dependencies>


from the product file and it installs fine. Had a quick look and it seems to be working with no errors. Will give it a proper test later, however looks like it is compatable with 3.7

This worked (installation) for me aswell,

[Greg-J]

Is there a way to require all users or users that are part of a specific usergroup to take a given survey? I'd like to make it to where my members cannot post until they take a survey that I state is a required survey.

[PtitLu]

Which template should i edit to translate this mod ? Thanks for the job.

[ze?ox]

Always I get this message:

Moved Temporarily

The server encountered an internal error or misconfiguration and was unable to complete your request.

Please contact the server administrator, *** and inform them of the time the error occurred, and anything you might have done that may have caused the error.

More information about this error may be available in the server error log.

Additionally, a 500 Internal Server Error error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request.
Apache/2.2.8 (Debian) mod_fastcgi/2.4.6 Server at *** Port 80

Whats that?

[PtitLu]

Originally Posted by PtitLu

Which template should i edit to translate this mod ? Thanks for the job.

Mod almost translated. I only need to know where to translate the "answers". If i modify the answers for one survey, the translation ain't saved for all the surveys.

[Hanoifishing]

This hack is good for VBB 3.7.1 patch 2!
I've just installed it (with many many problems but then i was successful)
Thanks the owner of this topic!
You're very nice!

[Hanoifishing]

Now I have to calculate the results of my survey follow formula.
Example: There are 20 questions in my survey with 4 options in each question: A, B, C, D
After users finished this survey, how do I show their results like this:
(number of option A) * 5 = ..... %A
(number of option B) * 5 = ..... %B
(number of option C) * 5 = ..... %C
(number of option D) * 5 = ..... %D
20 = 100%
Your percent of A-option (B,C,D) is highest so that .... (conclusion of survey)

Anyone can show me how to do it?

[harley_m]

Just tried to install this on a 3.6.4 and it all went in okay - but when trying to run survey.php it just splurges the php code from input->clean_array_gpc('r', array(... onwards.

Any ideas why that would be?

Great Mod, really hoping I can get it sorted!

Harley

[solidlink]

waiting for an update for 3.7

[rasheed]

I am looking for the access control settings? Are they in admincp as I don't see them in the Edit Survey options. Specifically, I am trying to make a public survey with all of the users groups having access, but I still get a login prompt when trying to answer the survey..are there related vb access that are needed that are conflicting with the add-in program?

Thanks.
Rasheed