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 initially released this hack for vB3.0 - 3.5 before I ported it to 3.6 - 3.8 outstanding work by him.

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:

1. 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.
2. If you use FTP to upload the survey directory, you might have problems with subdirectories under /survey/smarty/template_c due to the directory names with % signs. In this case, you can delete all the directories under template_c (but not the template_c directory itself). Those subdirectories will be recreated automatically when the templates are read.


Please click Install if you have installed this mod.


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

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.beta-tester.co.uk/iphone/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 3.8

Translations:-
Arabic - patch developer

[imedic]

Originally Posted by kushal

Survey working fine. Though when I try exporting the result in table or csv, the column headers do get exported but without the values.

Can you tell me why this would happen?

Originally Posted by kushal

Replace GREATEST with COALESCE in classes/special_results.class (6 replaces)

And it solved the problem.

Man, you are the best! Many thanks.
Indeed results appear ONLY on your edit.

[Spinball]

I assume there is no support for this mod?
Had the survey system running for a long while.
Today I duplicated the default template and edited a .tpl template file in the new template set.
When I chose that set for a survey and tried to take it, all I get is a blank screen.
Any ideas?

[Alfa1]

Im afraid that this mod is unsupported.

[Spinball]

Originally Posted by Alfa1

Im afraid that this mod is unsupported.

Cool. I'll pay a coder to rewrite it, then.

[Alfa1]

Wouldn't it be easier to create a survey system within vbulletin, instead of bridging UCCASS?

[Tru2Chevy]

Just recently found this mod and installed it on my 3.8 board. Trying to setup a survey that any user who has the link can take, whether or not they are logged in. Has anyone else been successful in allowing unregistered users to access a survey?

In the ACP options I have the "Usergroups allowed to answer (take) surveys" option set to include #1, the Unregistered / Not Logged In usergroup, but when I log out and click the link for the survey I am just prompted to log in.

Any ideas?

- Justin

[Simon Lloyd]

I need a little help with this, it's installed fine and i have had users take my first survey, however clicking on results as table simply shows me the questions in columns i dont see any usernames....etc

I've read 90% of the posts in this thread but dont see anyone with this issue, any ideas?

[advancedgamerz]

do you have anything like this for 4.2

[Ramsesx]

Originally Posted by Sevo

when I put in www.myboards.com/survey.php I get this





Any ideas what I have done wrong?

In survey.php replace in the first line:

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with

<?php

[ozzy47]

Originally Posted by Ramsesx

In survey.php replace in the first line:

<?

with

<?php

You do realize you are replying to a post that is over three years old, and that member has not been on in over a year?