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tamarian: Who originally made this a vB hack for vB 3.5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

[Datenpapst]

Don't know why, but I get this message in the example surveys:

Warning: chmod(): Operation not permitted in /survey/smarty/Smarty.class.php on line 1454

Warning: chmod(): Operation not permitted in /survey/smarty/Smarty.class.php on line 1454

[Datenpapst]

Another thing I noticed:
When you delete a survey this message comes:

e.g. Survey #5 does not exist.

You may should create a text that tells the admin that the survey has been deleted.

[Spikeman]

Originally Posted by 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

Open survey/classes/mainclass.php find this

//fix after setting tables in install script
        $this->CONF['db_tbl_prefix'] = TABLE_PREFIX . 'survey_';

and replace with this

//fix after setting tables in install script
        $this->CONF['db_tbl_prefix'] = TABLE_PREFIX . 'vbsurvey_';

[Spikeman]

Originally Posted by Datenpapst

Another thing I noticed:
When you delete a survey this message comes:

e.g. Survey #5 does not exist.

You may should create a text that tells the admin that the survey has been deleted.

I have seen this before and will look into it, although you receive this message is the survey still deleted?

[Kihon Kata]

I've installed this on my board here...running 3.6.3

When I click on "edit questions" and/or "preview survey" I get this:

Error selecting questions: Unknown column 'q.aid' in 'field list'

[Spikeman]

Originally Posted by Kihon Kata

I've installed this on my board here...running 3.6.3

When I click on "edit questions" and/or "preview survey" I get this:

Error selecting questions: Unknown column 'q.aid' in 'field list'

Can you PM a url for me to see this? <-- sorry did not see the url there!!! Can you PM me some login and admin perms please

[Spikeman]

Originally Posted by Datenpapst

Don't know why, but I get this message in the example surveys:

Have you tried to change the server permissions on the directory?

[Kihon Kata]

PMed you some login info....

Originally Posted by Spikeman

Can you PM a url for me to see this? <-- sorry did not see the url there!!! Can you PM me some login and admin perms please

[Kihon Kata]

Thanks Spikeman for the personal help on my forum. He fixed my issue.

Thanks again

[Spikeman]

Originally Posted by Kihon Kata

Thanks Spikeman for the personal help on my forum. He fixed my issue.

Thanks again

[Resolved]You are welcome, error was caused by corruption in db tables, uninstalled the product and reinstalled, works fine now.