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Form Hack · **Released**: 09-14-2006

Form Hack 4.1

Features:

Ever wanted an online form that a user can fill out, which when submitted gets:

Posted into a new thread in a forum of your choice
Create a new poll in the new thread with options of your choice
Posted as a reply in an existing thread of your choice
PMed to you or someone else
Emailed to an email address you specify
Choose to redirect to the post, thread or forum, or a custom thank you message
Choose to redirect to edit post
See a preview before they submit

Or any combination or all of the above?

Well, this is the hack for you!

You can use this for:

Moderator Applications
Quiz Submit Form which gets PMed to a moderator
Contact Form that goes to PM, email or thread
Guests to apply to be members
Report a Moderator form that goes as a PM to you
Guests can PM you for whatever reason
Order form to buy things
Donation form
News or Articles submissions that can go straight to a thread

Or anything you like - this hack is totally customizable via the AdminCP.

The beauty of this hack is that once you install this hack, to make a new form all you need to do is copy the main hook, rename it to whatever you want, edit the variables in the hook, and you have a totally new form!!! You do not need to touch the templates again, but can always create new ones and use different templates for different forms.

Format of the form:

One main input question
3 Radio buttons Choice questions
3 Normal text input questions
1 Drop down menu
3 Check boxes
1 Long answer question
1 VB message editor text box question
Upload attachments

This is customizable via the hook.

Also:

You can set the usergroups you want access to this form.
Depending on your forum permissions, if the new thread is in a public forum, members can reply to it. This hack allows a form to submit the new thread or post wherever you want it to go.
Force the user to answer all questions.

INSTALLATION
Easy - takes only a few minutes:

Import the XML into products. (admin cp -> Plug-in System -> Manage Products -> Add/Import Product)
Edit the main plug-in - the instructions are all inside the hook itself, in the top half. Follow the instructions carefully!
To get to the form, go to: /newthread.php?do=form (change "form" to the name of your form if you have few)

Done!

Use this hack to make as many forms as you like!

Enjoy!

Updates:

Version 4.0: (09/15/2006)

Ported over for vb3.6
Send to multiple emails.
Send multiple PMs.
Parse emails for BBCode
And finally, ATTACHMENTS!

Version 4.1: (04/24/2008)

Fixed for vb 3.6.10
Small bug fixed.
List of the 2 quick edits are in the zip file so you don't have to start making a form from scratch.

MAKE SURE YOU CLICK INSTALL!
You will get an email when a new version is released.

Abe1 with rights from Dr Erwin Loh

xTerMn8R · #**1052** 05-25-2008, 02:55 AM

HI all,
I recently reinstalled a few forms I had created with Forms 4.0, and am running into a few issues... The infamous "Security Token" issue which I was able to fix after reading the posts here... Thank you VERY Much ....

But for some reason MY FORMS dont use the style correctly and stretch out the center Block way over to the right side of the form making it look like crap. I loaded the default "FORM" and that displays fine... I took all the code from the top of the "Form" Template ( all the way done to the </td> after </fieldset> tag ) and inserted it into My Form but to no avail... I still have a stretched out ugly form?
Can someone Point me into the right direction to fix this...

Below is the WebHelp Template Code

Code:

$stylevar[htmldoctype]
<html dir="$stylevar[textdirection]" lang="$stylevar[languagecode]">
<head>
$headinclude
<title>$vboptions[bbtitle] - $formtitle</title>
</head>
<body>
$header
$navbar

<!-- main -->
<if condition="$preview">
<table class="tborder" cellpadding="$stylevar[cellpadding]" cellspacing="$stylevar[cellspacing]" border="0" width="75%" align="center">
<tr>
	<td class="tcat">
		Preview
	</td>
</tr>
<tr>
	<td class="alt1">
$preview
</td>
</tr>
</table>
</if>

<br />
<form name="vbform" action="newthread.php" method="post"<if condition="!is_browser('webtv')"> onsubmit="return vB_Editor['$editorid'].prepare_submit(0, $vboptions[postminchars])"</if>>
<input type="hidden" value="$formname" name="do" />
<input type="hidden" value="submit" name="action" />

<input type="hidden" name="posthash" value="$posthash" />
<input type="hidden" name="poststarttime" value="$poststarttime" />

<table class="tborder" cellpadding="$stylevar[cellpadding]" cellspacing="$stylevar[cellspacing]" border="0" width="75%" align="center">
<tr>
	<td class="tcat" colspan="2">
		$vboptions[bbtitle] - $formtitle
	</td>
</tr>
<tr>
	<td class="panelsurround" align="center" colspan="2">

	<table class="panel" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="$stylevar[formspacer]" border="0" width="100%">
	<tr>
		<td align="$stylevar[left]">
			<fieldset class="fieldset" style="margin:0px">
				<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="$stylevar[formspacer]" border="0">
				<tr>
					<td>
						$formpurpose

					</td>
				</tr>
		</table>
	</fieldset>
</td>
</tr>
</table>
</td>
</tr>


<table width="75%" font color="#000000" border=8 bordercolorlight="#db8928" bordercolordark="742f07" bgcolor="#dcbd86" align="center">
<tr>
<td class="alt1" valign="middle">
<b>Username</b></td>
<td class="alt1" valign="middle">
<b>$bbuserinfo[username]</b></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td class="alt1" valign="middle">
<b>Your Listed E-mail</b><br />(Be sure this is correct or your form will not be processed)</td>
<td class="alt1" valign="middle">
<b>$bbuserinfo[email]</b></td>
</tr></table>
<table width="75%" font color="#000000" border=8 bordercolorlight="#db8928" bordercolordark="742f07" bgcolor="#dcbd86" align="center">

<tr>
<td class="alt1" valign="middle">
<b>User Group</b></td>
<td class="alt1" valign="middle">
<b>$bbuserinfo[usergroupid]</b></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td class="alt1" valign="middle">
<b>User ID</b></td>
<td class="alt1" valign="middle">
<b>$bbuserinfo[userid]</b></td>
</tr>
</table>

<table width="75%" align="center" font color="#000000" border=8 bordercolorlight="#db8928" bordercolordark="742f07" bgcolor="#dcbd86">
<td class="alt1" valign="middle">
<b>$dropdownquestion1</b>:
</td>
<td class="alt1" valign="middle" colspan="1">
<select name="dropdownanswer1">
<option value="$dropdownchoice1a" <if condition="$dropdownchoice1a == $dropdown1">selected="selected"</if>>$dropdownchoice1a</option>
<option value="$dropdownchoice1b" <if condition="$dropdownchoice1b == $dropdown1">selected="selected"</if>>$dropdownchoice1b</option>
<option value="$dropdownchoice1c" <if condition="$dropdownchoice1c == $dropdown1">selected="selected"</if>>$dropdownchoice1c</option>
<option value="$dropdownchoice1d" <if condition="$dropdownchoice1d == $dropdown1">selected="selected"</if>>$dropdownchoice1d</option>
<option value="$dropdownchoice1e" <if condition="$dropdownchoice1e == $dropdown1">selected="selected"</if>>$dropdownchoice1e</option>
<option value="$dropdownchoice1f" <if condition="$dropdownchoice1f == $dropdown1">selected="selected"</if>>$dropdownchoice1f</option>
<option value="$dropdownchoice1g" <if condition="$dropdownchoice1g == $dropdown1">selected="selected"</if>>$dropdownchoice1g</option>
<option value="$dropdownchoice1h" <if condition="$dropdownchoice1h == $dropdown1">selected="selected"</if>>$dropdownchoice1h</option>
</select></td>
</tr></table>
<table width="75%" align="center" font color="#000000" border=8 bordercolorlight="#db8928" bordercolordark="742f07" bgcolor="#dcbd86">
<tr>
<td class="alt1" valign="Top">
<b>$longquestion1</b><br />
$longexplain1</td>
<td class="alt1" valign="Top" colspan="2">
<textarea rows="20" cols="50" name="longanswer1">$longanswer1</textarea>
</td>
</tr></table>
<br>
<table width="75%" bgcolor="#dcbd86" align="center" font color="#000000" border="4" bordercolorlight="#db8928" bordercolordark="742f07">
<tr>
<td>After clicking the<b>"Submit"</b> button you will be redirected to Super Skunk's Home page. This will indicate that your request for assistance has been processed for attention. Thank you...</td>
</tr>
</table><br>
</table>
</div>
</td>
</tr><br><br>
<tr>
<td valign="top" colspan="3">
<p align="center">
<input type="submit" value="Submit" name="submit" style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt" class="button" />
<input type="submit" value="Preview" name="submit" style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt" class="button" />
<input type="reset" value="Reset" name="reset" style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt" class="button" />
</p></td></tr>
</table>

</form>

$footer
</body>
</html>

Thank you,
Tom
www.superskunkracing.org

CampinCarl · #**1053** 05-25-2008, 06:38 AM

How do i make it so there is a drop down menu, and if the user picks one of the choices, it posts the form in the forum indicated by the drop down menu?

xTerMn8R · #**1054** 05-25-2008, 03:12 PM

Never Mind I figured it out, it was just getting my Colspans set correctly in the Templates, Wierd how they worked before but anyway there all done and back to Normal, LOL probably better then before...

Tom

CampinCarl · #**1055** 05-25-2008, 03:32 PM

my problem is still unsolved!

Deepdog009 · #**1056** 05-26-2008, 02:10 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by CampinCarl

How do i make it so there is a drop down menu, and if the user picks one of the choices, it posts the form in the forum indicated by the drop down menu?

CampinCarl,,,

goto this link and yee shall find what yee ask...>>> Dropdowns

************************************************** **********

xTerMn8R,,,
glad you resolved your issue...

Also table and longanwser settings can cause some issues...

GPTB · #**1057** 05-29-2008, 10:36 PM

Does this also work with vb 3.7.1 - the new release?

If this works in 3.7, then I'd like to suggest a thread is opened for this hack in the sub-forum for 3.7 mods too

HabboHut · #**1058** 05-30-2008, 06:29 AM

Not sure if this has been asked before, but is it possible that you can just have normal answer boxes for all the form fields? This is what I'm trying to do, but can't work out how...

ccplim · #**1059** 05-30-2008, 07:09 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by HabboHut

Not sure if this has been asked before, but is it possible that you can just have normal answer boxes for all the form fields? This is what I'm trying to do, but can't work out how...

Yes you can. And this should be pretty simple and straight forward

edongski · #**1060** 06-02-2008, 02:54 PM

I wish that it would be updated to use the prefixes in 3.7.1

vrokar · #**1061** 06-02-2008, 07:42 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by CampinCarl

How do i make it so there is a drop down menu, and if the user picks one of the choices, it posts the form in the forum indicated by the drop down menu?

Dont have the code handy at work. But set your forumid to a dropdown answer.

EX $forumid = $dropdown1

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