vB Survey: Add a full-featured survey tool to your forum

A 3.6.x version by spikeman is posted here:
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=131650


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.

Application Features: See the UCCASS site for full details. After testing several survey apps, I find this one to be the best:

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:
o File changes: None
o DB changes: No changes, 19 new tables

Installation:

• Unpack the included file
• Copy vbsurvey_install.php to your admincp directory
• Copy survey.php to your main forum directory
• Copy the survey directory below your forum directory (cannot change the directory name)
• run the vbsurvey_install.php script in the admincp directory
• Go to AdminCP => vBulletin Options => vB Survey (UCCASS) and set the toptions for acess 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

Upgrade Instructions:
If you are upgrading from vB 3.0.x to vB 3.5 and already had this hack installed, all you need to do is download the zip file, and re-uploade all the files to over-write the old ones.

Added in v1.7.1 (August 26th, 2005

• Hide edit menu if user not allowed to edit surveys.

Added in v1.7 (August 7th, 2005

• Bug fix in editing answer types.

Added in v1.6 (June 12th, 2005

• Upgraded for vB 3.5 beta
• Upgrad instructions: If you already have vB Survey 1.5 installed, you just need to upload all files, but no need to run the upgrade script.

Added in v1.5 (June 7th, 2005

• Added a new answer type R, for Regular Expressions (REGEX). This will allow new types to be defined for answers, with controlled format. If the question is required, users will receive an error messages, until they enter the proper format. If the question is optional, the users will only get an error if they try to answer the question, but with the wrong format.
  Note: You can disable REGEX type questions by editing the templates.
• The Size of type 'S' (Sentence) can now be changed, and no longer hardcoded as 50 characters.
• To upgrade, you will need to run the upgrade option in the installation script and re-upload all the files.

Added in v1.3 (June 5th, 2005

• Added a new answer type D, for Dates. This will show 3 dropdown lists for day, month, year, to ensure a uniform formate for dates entered by the user, instead of a text box.
• Fixed a bug in the anonymous message display. It would state survey is not anonymous, when it actually is.
• To upgrade, just re-upload the files (classes and templates directories)

Added in v1.2 (June 4th, 2005)

• Removed the "Previous page" button, if the page is the first page of a survey.
• Answers in the new/edit answer page are sorted by the numeric value. This allows you to add a later value, but set the order higher, without re-editing the whole list to arrange it.
• Fixed a bug in quotes and escapes in the answer types edit.
• Upgrade instructions: Just re-upload the classes directory.

Added in v1.1 (June 4th, 2005)

• Added anonymity option. This is decided when creating the survey. Once set, it cannot be changed. If the survey is not anonymous, users will see on the survey intro a message that they survey is not anonymous, and that their usernames will show in the results table. The results table will show the usernames and a link to their profile.
• Added Hidden option: By default, all active surveys show up on the main page as available surveys. If you set the survey propert to hidden, the survey can still be active, but not show up for members. This can be useful if you want to email the link to a selected user group. Admins and the survey author will still be able to see hidden surveys.
• Navbar update to list the various locations in the survey pages.
• The previous version showed the "no permission" to guests. Now you can allow guests to view the surveys and results by putting usergoup 0 in the admin panel in usergroups who may see the results. But other priviliges will be ignored.
• A couple of bug fixes
• Upgrade instructions: Just re-upload all the files, including survey.php

Notes:
The "do not remove" comment on the copyright link in the footer is from the original UCCASS footer template. You may contac 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.

[WNxWakko]

Survey died after upgrade to 3.5.3 All I get is a big blank white page now.
http://www.warriornation.net/Forum/survey.php

[peterska2]

Originally Posted by WNxWakko

Survey died after upgrade to 3.5.3 All I get is a big blank white page now.
http://www.warriornation.net/Forum/survey.php

upload the install file again and point your browser to it. one of the options is to install templates. click on that one. when it comes up with 'done' and a 'next step' button CLOSE YOUR BROWSER!! otherwise you will lose all data in your survey tables as it will drop them and re-create them.

[WNxWakko]

yup reinstalling templates fixed it. For whatever reason the upgrade took them out.

[dd4w2000]

Have this installed and working with no problems on 3.5.2

Recently installed this on vb3.5.3

Now getting the error

Warning: Smarty error: problem writing './survey/smarty/templates_c/Default^results.tpl.' in /survey/smarty/Smarty.class.php on line 589

When attemting to view the demo surveys am getting

Warning: Smarty error: problem writing './survey/smarty/templates_c/Default^question_required.tpl.' in /survey/smarty/Smarty.class.php on line 589

File permissions for survey and all subdirectories are 777
Strange as i installed a working 3.5.2 version yesterday and today on 3.5.3 (different installation, fresh install on 3.5.3 vb) i am getting these problems.

Any ideas?

[OttawaGolf]

Installed on a windows server

http://forum.GolfResource.net/survey.php

Registered users set to allow creating surveys see this above my header

Notice: Undefined index: REQUEST_URI in C:\Inetpub\forum\includes\class_core.php on line 1906

Notice: Undefined index: REQUEST_URI in C:\Inetpub\forum\includes\class_core.php on line 1906

Notice: Undefined index: HTTP_REFERER in C:\Inetpub\forum\includes\class_core.php on line 1573

Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at C:\Inetpub\forum\includes\class_core.php:1906) in \includes\functions.php on line 3006

Warning: session_start(): Cannot send session cookie - headers already sent by (output started at C:\Inetpub\forum\includes\class_core.php:1906) in \survey\classes\main.class.php on line 28

Warning: session_start(): Cannot send session cache limiter - headers already sent (output started at C:\Inetpub\forum\includes\class_core.php:1906) in \survey\classes\main.class.php on line 28

Guests see only this on a white page

Notice: Undefined index: REQUEST_URI in C:\Inetpub\forum\includes\class_core.php on line 1906

Notice: Undefined index: REQUEST_URI in C:\Inetpub\forum\includes\class_core.php on line 1906

Notice: Undefined index: HTTP_REFERER in C:\Inetpub\forum\includes\class_core.php on line 1573




Unable to add cookies, header already sent.
File: C:\Inetpub\forum\includes\class_core.php
Line: 1906

[xBhp]

To make a question mandatory i think we set the required answers to 1. if thats correct it doesnt work in my case. what do i do so that the surveyee has to answer the question in order to move ahead?

Quick question, does this auto-insert navbar links, or links to it of any kind?

I only ask because there are no template edits in the install docs, and my navbar/etc is setup to the point where the only way I'd want to actually display a link to this would be if I coded it in myself.

Thanks!

[xBhp]

<i>again puttting up this question as this seems to have gone unnoticed : </i>

To make a question mandatory i think we set the required answers to 1. if thats correct it doesnt work in my case. what do i do so that the surveyee has to answer the question in order to move ahead?

[Staircase]

I just downloaded it, and all the files are blank.

?!!?

Originally Posted by Staircase

I just downloaded it, and all the files are blank.

?!!?

Downloaded just fine for me. Try it again.