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tamarian: Who originally made this a vB hack for vB 3.5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

[mma365]

I'm running 3.6.4, is this not compatible with this version?

[dutchbb]

It doesn't work together with this hack: Rules and User Agreement Hack

The survey system stops working when both are enabled.

Maybe this can be looked at?

[andreamarucci]

Originally Posted by andreamarucci

Wow, works flawlessly but I've a problem with limited or full html. I've tried to chose both of them but when I insert something like [B]word[/B] somwhere in the question, it doesn't appear in bold but always like [B]word[/B].

Any suggestion?

Solved. You've to put <B>word</B> to make it work.

[ar2]

I'd like to uninstall this hack. How can I do that? Are specific surveys goes to specific files? I'd like to delete all surveys from my serv.

I'll be upgrading my VB to 3.6.

BR

[Bonee70]

Everything working here, though I don't get graphical results.

I have attached a .gif to show what I mean. What can I do to make the graphs work?

Thx!

[Bonee70]

I also get several errors like "You don't have permission to access /forum/survey/docs/index.html on this server." - what can I do here?

Survey folder was set to CHMOD 744 but I dont get where to do the "chown -R apache:apache survey"

[xony]

Hello, has this worked me of marvel, during one week, now he/she does give me error, and not you of where he/she comes, can somebody help me? thank you. The error that gives is this:

Warning: fread() [function.fread]: Length parameter must be greater than 0. in /survey/smarty/Smarty.class.php on line 1407

You can check it in this it paginates, thank you.

http://www.3dpoder.com/foro3dpoder/survey.php

[iBaker]

I was just about to install this hack but have noticed that Spikeman hasn't been here for over 2 months yet there is a "Supported" tick in the hack details - anyone know how this is going to be supported in the future?

[TechDawg]

Originally Posted by TomasDR

I am having a problem with the usage of the survey mod.

I followed all of the instructions and read every post, but I have a new problem.

I get the main survey screen with the two sample surveys, I have permissions setup correctly and I can see "Edit Surveys" and the link for "Create New Survey", and I confirmed the options in the admincp.

My problem: When I click on any link; take survey, view results, edit, or new survey it returns me back to the main survey screen. The address bar shows what I presume to be the correct address(es) with variables but I just get to see the main survey screen over & over. The only links that work are the documentation and the copyright links.

/forum/survey.php?&do=take&sid=5
/forum/survey.php?&do=results&sid=5
/forum/survey.php?do=edit_survey&sid=5&submit=Edit+Survey
/forum/survey.php?do=new_survey

I have installed it twice, twice in a row, and then uninstalled and re-installed the product. I confirmed every file is uploaded and the chmod/chown was done.

Any thoughts?

I am also having the same problem. In addition, as noted recently, I am concerned that the author has not commented or been logged in for over 2 months. The last comment made was a statement that the above question would be address in the weekend following the question, but it was never answered.

I hope there is some word soon.

Thanks,

TechDawg

[akulion]

thanks
installed and seems to be workin a-ok