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tamarian: Who originally made this a vB hack for vB 3.5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

[Biggles]

Thanks also from me, Spikeman. I now have something to play with for a while so as to get the hang of it. Seems pretty cool. Looking at that UCCASS site, I would not have known where to begin to set that up - sheesh!

Just one question, if I may: why doesn't your install.txt advise where to go to access the hack? Or did I miss it somewhere?

Regards

Biggles

[TheBlackPoet]

im wondering why i cant delete the installed surveys.. i went to admincp to see what the admin page is, but there is no admincp... i cant delete the surveys i create or the ones that came with the hack....

a damn good hack though..

[Spikeman]

Originally Posted by Biggles

Just one question, if I may: why doesn't your install.txt advise where to go to access the hack? Or did I miss it somewhere?
Regards
Biggles

To access the survey page goto http://www.yourdomain.com/forums/survey.php

Originally Posted by TheBlackPoet

im wondering why i cant delete the installed surveys.. i went to admincp to see what the admin page is, but there is no admincp... i cant delete the surveys i create or the ones that came with the hack....
a damn good hack though..

All settings are in ACP -> vBulletin Options -> Survey System Options.

To delete the surveys you need to be on the main survey page http://www.yourdomain.com/forums/survey.php select the survey from the dropdown box at the bottom of the page to edit survey, at the bottom of the edit page is a check box to delete the survey.

[Martin-TMGRS]

Originally Posted by Spikeman

Did you set the correct permissions?

Is the permissions in user groups ? If it is there is nothing to do with Survey in there.

[Spikeman]

Originally Posted by Martin-TMGRS

Is the permissions in user groups ? If it is there is nothing to do with Survey in there.

You need to set the server permissions, this can be done through your ftp, if you are not familiar with this PM me some ftp login details and I will take a look for you.

[Martin-TMGRS]

Originally Posted by Spikeman

You need to set the server permissions, this can be done through your ftp.

I'm unable to change owner/group to apache:apache because my server has the user name in front of all ftp users as well. Does this mean I wont be able to use the hack ?

[Spikeman]

Originally Posted by Martin-TMGRS

I'm unable to change owner/group to apache:apache because my server has the user name in front of all ftp users as well. Does this mean I wont be able to use the hack ?

You should still be able to chmod the directories to the specified settings, which should get it working.

[Martin-TMGRS]

Originally Posted by Spikeman

You should still be able to chmod the directories to the specified settings, which should get it working.

I shell try and see if I can get it to work.

[Martin-TMGRS]

ok I chmod all the directories to 744 and still not working.

[efil]

Hi,
I want to translate the mod to the hebrew lang.
Can you explain me how to do it?

Thanks.