Forms Hack

Forms Hack 3.5

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 to upload attachments
• 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

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 2.0: (08/10/2005)

• Ported over for vb3.5

Version 2.1: (08/10/2005)

• bug fix with answers not showing

Version 2.5: (08/13/2005)

• Major update:
• Templates have a few lines changed here and there.
• You can now have more then 2 poll options very easily
• Polls can't be created if your not creating a new thread
• New Thread now uses VB function to add the thread
• New Poll now uses VB function to add the poll
• New Reply now uses VB function to add the reply
• PM now uses VB function to send the PM

Version 2.6: (08/21/2005)

• fixed bug with posts having to be moderated

Version 2.7: (08/23/2005)

• Minor update:
• Fixed some issues with signatures, URL parsing, and subscriptions
• Option to name the post titles
• Made template XHTML 1.0 Transitional

Version 3.0: (11/29/2005)

• Major update:
• Added drop down menu
• Made the long answer show up in a the vb message box
• Re-wrote some instructions
• Pressing back should save work
• Both templates and plug-in were edited
• Some more minor things

Version 3.1: (12/07/2005)

• Brought back the standard text box (longanswer)

Version 3.2: (12/09/2005)

• [ADDED] Option to make polls public.

Version 3.3: (12/19/2005)

• [FIXED] Guests can now post using the forms to make a thread or post. They cannot send a PM though.
• [ADDED] Paypal link so you can make a donation for this hack.

Version 3.4: (04/05/2006)

• [FIXED] Removed extra line from template.
• [ADDED] WYSIWYG editor now works besides the regular editor.
• [ADDED] Preview.
• [CHANGED] Subscriptions now take from user default setting.

Version 3.5: (05/31/2006)

• [ADDED] Check boxes.

Abe1 with rights from Dr Erwin Loh

This hack is created for your use free of charge. No payment is requested. However, if you would like to donate money for the work I put in to this hack, a donation would show your appreciation.

[Mepher]

Lol thanks RMS-Chef, now I feel like a total idiot =) I don't know why I didn't just think of that in the first place. I was kinda expecting it to display the forum ids in the Forum Management. /shrug.

[silurius]

So anyone have any idea I might be getting "Sorry! This forum is not accepting new posts." when the forum in question has no posting restrictions whatsoever?

[WNxWakko]

How can I make the Questions Bold or colored when its submitted into the thread?

[RMS-Chef]

Originally Posted by WNxWakko

How can I make the Questions Bold or colored when its submitted into the thread?

You can use vBcode in your answer template.
There is one thing mentioned above, make sure there is a space after the last opening tag and before the first closing tag. Otherwise I think you get an error when you try to save the template.

An example taken from one of my answer templates:

[center][u][b][size=5] $subjecttitleans [/size][/b][/u][/center]

$longanswer1

[center] _____________________________________________ [/center]

[b] $subjectdate [/b]: $subjectdateans
[b] $subjectlocation [/b]: $subjectlocationans
[b] $filesize [/b]: $filesizeans
[b] $fileruntime [/b]: $fileruntimeans
[b] $fileformat [/b]: $fileformatans

[center] _____________________________________________ 

[u][b][size=5] $longquestion2 [/size][/b][/u][/center]

$longanswer2

[center] _____________________________________________ 

[u][b][size=5] $longquestion3 [/size][/b][/u][/center]

$longanswer3

[silurius]

Originally Posted by silurius

So anyone have any idea I might be getting "Sorry! This forum is not accepting new posts." when the forum in question has no posting restrictions whatsoever?

Er...anyone...?

[WNxWakko]

ah thankyou, worked perfect. I was trying it before but kept getting the error. I can see now it was the space that was needed.

[RMS-Chef]

Originally Posted by silurius

Er...anyone...?

Have you made sure that all groups you want posting are listed in the config area of the plugin code under:

//USERGROUPS ALLOWED

And double check you have the proper forumID.

[silurius]

Originally Posted by RMS-Chef

Have you made sure that all groups you want posting are listed in the config area of the plugin code under:

//USERGROUPS ALLOWED

And double check you have the proper forumID.

Yep, and yep. :ermm:

[silurius]

Sorry to keep bumping this. Still wondering if there is anything else I should look at here.

[SirJonathan]

Hey guys!

I'm having a rather finicky issue.. I'm using this form for a 'membership application' on my message board. Recently, I've had a few members apply, their post get added to the database, but never show up in the right forum. Normally, when someone applies, their post gets added to the "new members" forum, without any trouble. Recently, a member joined, filled out the application, submitted it, and it never showed up in the "new members" forum. If you view the member's profile, it shows that they have one post and if you do a search, you can view their application just fine.

Any ideas why some of the posts are not showing up in the proper forum? I've just done another test of the system and it works just fine. Any thoughts on why some are slipping through?

Thanks guys!

-Jonathan

[Mr Chad]

This is a great hack but what would be even better is if, you could make a hack that does this:

When a member registers and fills out the required info and clicks submit it will automaticly creat a thread w/ his/her info named welcome X.

[silurius]

Originally Posted by chatbum

This is a great hack but what would be even better is if, you could make a hack that does this:

When a member registers and fills out the required info and clicks submit it will automaticly creat a thread w/ his/her info named welcome X.

Chatbum, I believe this is what you are looking for.

I hate to whine, but I am really struggling with this hack for some reason. Can anyone work with me? I've checked the above suggestions a few times, and I have to wonder if there is something else I'm overlooking. (Have a go-live in a few days and I made the mistake of putting this form on the critical path).

[vanayr]

Is there a way to put check boxes in this?

-Chris

[bhxtyrant]

Hey guys,I was wondering is there a way to intergrate this with vBadvanced CMPS?

[mtha]

Originally Posted by silurius

So anyone have any idea I might be getting "Sorry! This forum is not accepting new posts." when the forum in question has no posting restrictions whatsoever?

I get the same error, it ask for a value f=xx for input. dont know why, and I havent got enough time to work on it. anyway, do a trick do=form&f=1 will work