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tamarian: Who originally made this a vB hack for vB 3.5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

[Bison]

I'll wait untill this comes out of beta before I install it. My forum really needs a survey tool but I don't have the time to test anything right now.

[Veer]

Installed on 3.6.0
But when i click /survey.php i am getting this message:

vBulletin Message

WARNING: Cannot find default template path. Expecting: /home/site/public_html/includes/survey/templates/Default

survey.php file uploaded on root forum (in public_html)
survey directory is uploaded on root forum (in public_html)

Any idea, please !!

[Spikeman]

Originally Posted by efil

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

You can translate the phrases for the Survey System Options through the phrase manager in ACP, all other parts to be translated can be found within the class.php files located within survey/classes

Originally Posted by Bison

I'll wait untill this comes out of beta before I install it. My forum really needs a survey tool but I don't have the time to test anything right now.

You will not require to test it, all is working fine as is, it was only released as beta to be cautious, however, the only real problems encountered have been permission based or users running on windows servers. It will come out of beta when I have finished phrasing the package..(finish date unknown)

Originally Posted by Pehchaan

Installed on 3.6.0
But when i click /survey.php i am getting this message:vBulletin Message

WARNING: Cannot find default template path. Expecting: /home/site/public_html/includes/survey/templates/Default


survey.php file uploaded on root forum (in public_html)
survey directory is uploaded on root forum (in public_html)

Any idea, please !!

I do not understand why your survey.php is looking in your includes file for the templates?

[Veer]

Originally Posted by Spikeman

I do not understand why your survey.php is looking in your includes file for the templates?

Yes, i am really confused about it, because i didn't touch any setting, just uploaded survey.php and survey directory in my root forum directory (public_html) and only imported the product via admincp, it was successfully imported, i have also checked vbulletin options > Survey System Options, everything looks fine, but when i am going to survey main page it says:

vBulletin Message WARNING: Cannot find default template path. Expecting: /home/site/public_html/includes/survey/templates/Default

Do you think i have missed anything? during installation? or after it? maybe server path setting in php files?

[Spikeman]

what is the ur lto your board

[Veer]

PM'ed to you.

[Simetrical]

For an accurate survey, only a random cross-section of the readership should be allowed to take it. That is, I would like every (say) 1000th hit to be asked to take the survey, guest or no, but no one else should be allowed. (If someone would be offered it twice, I suppose their answers should just be doubly weighted, or they should be skipped, or it should just ask them to take it again.) Is this reasonably possible with this hack? From what I seem to be reading, it's just a page that members can express their opinions on, but I have a pretty good line to the members through the forums themselves. I really want to hear from the anonymous viewers.

[Phret]

I am pretty new to vBulletin and I have a question. The forum is now running on our website and we will include vbSEO soon.

Do these hacks, such as this, affect in any way the funtions of vbSEO or cause any trouble?

[Spikeman]

I personally have a lot of hacks installed including vB Survey and have not had any conflicts using VBSEO.

[TheHeartSmasher]

I only have a few problems with vbsurvrey
The username does not show up in the view results when the survey is not set to be anonymous.
There access controls listed in the documentation are not all there. I see:
None - Public Survey
Cookies
IP Address
Username and Password
Invitation Only (Email)

in the documentation.
Other then that this hack is awesome.