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tamarian: Who originally made this a vB hack for vB 3.5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

[Spinball]

[root@www forums]# chown -R apache:apache survey
chown: `apache:apache': invalid user

chown -R nobody:nobody survey worked without errors.

Warning: require(survey/classes/main.class.php) [function.require]: failed to open stream: Permission denied in /survey.php on line 8

Fatal error: require() [function.require]: Failed opening required 'survey/classes/main.class.php' (include_path='.:/usr/lib/php') in /home/sites/avforums/public_html/forums/survey.php on line 8

Are these related? What's the solution the the last one please?

[Spinball]

Note I ran chmod 777 on the survey folder and that seemed to fix it, however I still get the occasional permissions error.
Also despite correctly setting some questions to require an answer, the system allows me to proceed to the next page without making any choices.
Can anyone help here please?

[reddyink]

I following the instructions and installed the product.

when I type: http://localhost/forum/survey.php
here is what I am getting.... what's wrong

input->clean_array_gpc('r', array( 'do' => TYPE_STR, 'sid' => TYPE_INT, 'aid' => TYPE_INT)); if (empty($vbulletin->GPC['do'])) $vbulletin->GPC['do'] = 'main'; $sid = intval($vbulletin->GPC['sid']); $navbits = array("survey.php?$session[sessionurl]" => 'Survey'); $vbulletin->userinfo['can_admin_surveys'] = in_array($bbuserinfo['usergroupid'], explode(',', $vbulletin->options['vb_survey_admin_groups'])); $vbulletin->userinfo['can_edit_surveys'] = in_array($vbulletin->userinfo['usergroupid'], explode(',', $vbulletin->options['vb_survey_edit_groups'])); $vbulletin->userinfo['can_create_surveys'] = in_array($vbulletin->userinfo['usergroupid'], explode(',', $vbulletin->options['vb_survey_create_groups'])); $vbulletin->userinfo['can_take_surveys'] = in_array($vbulletin->userinfo['usergroupid'], explode(',', $vbulletin->options['vb_survey_take_groups'])); $vbulletin->userinfo['can_view_survey_results'] = in_array($vbulletin->userinfo['usergroupid'], explode(',', $vbulletin->options['vb_survey_result_groups'])); if ($vbulletin->userinfo['userid']==0) { // override permissions for guests, since userid zero is messy // They can only see the results, if allowed in the admincp settings $vbulletin->userinfo['can_admin_surveys'] = 0; $vbulletin->userinfo['can_take_surveys'] = 0; $vbulletin->userinfo['can_create_surveys'] = 0; $vbulletin->userinfo['can_edit_surveys'] = 0; } if ($vbulletin->GPC['do'] == 'main'){ include('survey/classes/survey.class.php'); $navbits[''] = 'Available Surveys'; $survey = new UCCASS_Survey; $body = $survey->available_surveys(); } elseif ($vbulletin->GPC['do'] == 'take'){ include('survey/classes/survey.class.php'); $navbits[''] = 'Answer Survey'; $survey = new UCCASS_Survey; $body = $survey->take_survey($sid); } elseif ($vbulletin->GPC['do'] == 'results'){ include('survey/classes/results.class.php'); $navbits[''] = 'Survey Results'; $survey = new UCCASS_Results; $body = $survey->survey_results($sid); } elseif ($vbulletin->GPC['do'] == 'edit_survey'){ include('survey/classes/editsurvey.class.php'); $navbits[''] = 'Edit Survey'; $editSurvey = new UCCASS_EditSurvey; $body = $editSurvey->show($sid); } elseif ($vbulletin->GPC['do'] == 'filter'){ include('survey/classes/results.class.php'); $navbits[''] = 'Filter Results'; $survey = new UCCASS_Results; $body = $survey->filter($sid); } elseif ($vbulletin->GPC['do'] == 'display_answers'){ $navbits[''] = 'Display Answers'; $survey = new UCCASS_Main; $body = $survey->display_answers($sid); } elseif ($vbulletin->GPC['do'] == 'edit_answer'){ include('survey/classes/answertypes.class.php'); $navbits[''] = 'Edit Answer Types'; $aid = intval($vbulletin->GPC['aid']); $survey = new UCCASS_AnswerTypes; $body = $survey->edit_answer($sid,$aid); } elseif ($vbulletin->GPC['do'] == 'new_answer_type'){ include('survey/classes/answertypes.class.php'); $navbits[''] = 'New Answer Type'; $survey = new UCCASS_AnswerTypes; $body = $survey->new_answer_type($sid); } elseif ($vbulletin->GPC['do'] == 'new_survey'){ include('survey/classes/newsurvey.class.php'); $navbits[''] = 'New Survey'; $survey = new UCCASS_NewSurvey; $body = $survey->new_survey(); } elseif ($vbulletin->GPC['do'] == 'results_csv'){ include('survey/classes/special_results.class.php'); $et = $vbulletin->GPC['export_type']; $survey = new UCCASS_Special_Results; echo $survey->results_csv($sid,$et); exit; } elseif ($vbulletin->GPC['do'] == 'results_table'){ include('survey/classes/special_results.class.php'); $navbits[''] = 'Results Table'; $survey = new UCCASS_Special_Results; $body = $survey->results_table($sid); } else { include('survey/classes/survey.class.php'); $navbits[''] = 'Available Surveys'; $survey = new UCCASS_Survey; $body = $survey->available_surveys(); } $navbits = construct_navbits($navbits); eval('$navbar = "' . fetch_template('navbar') . '";'); eval('print_output("' . fetch_template('vbsurvey') . '");'); ?>

[reddyink]

I installed
vB Survey: Add a full-featured survey tool to your forum by following instructions.
Changed settings in vBulletin options
I would like to Confirm on pasting Survey.php file-
Install instruction says
* Copy survey.php to your main forum directory
* Copy the survey directory into your forum directory (cannot change the directory name)

For this 2 lines
I copied Survey.Php file to - EasyPhp/WWW/upload - Is this right Main forum directory
I copied survey directory to - EasyPhp/WWW/upload - Is this right forum directory

Can anyone please tell me which is my Main Forum Directory and Forum Directory.
I have like this EasyPhp/WWW/upload/admincp/ and EasyPhp/WWW/upload/includes/

When i tested to survey display - I entered -http://localhost/upload/survey.php?
I got big error message
I am pasting part of error message here
input->clean_array_gpc('r', array( 'do' => TYPE_STR, 'sid' => TYPE_INT, 'aid' => TYPE_INT)); if (empty($vbulletin->GPC['do'])) $vbulletin->GPC['do'] = 'main'; $sid = intval($vbulletin->GPC['sid']); $navbits = array("survey.php?$session[sessionurl]" => 'Survey'); $vbulletin->userinfo['can_admin_surveys'] = in_array($bbuserinfo['usergroupid'], explode(',', $vbulletin->options['vb_survey_admin_groups'])); $vbulletin->userinfo['can_edit_surveys'] = in_array($vbulletin->userinfo['usergroupid'], explode(',', $vbulletin->options['vb_survey_edit_groups'])); $vbulletin->userinfo['can_create_surveys'] = in_array($vbulletin->userinfo['usergroupid'], explode(',', $vbulletin->options['vb_survey_create_groups'])); $vbulletin->userinfo['can_take_surveys'] = in_array($vbulletin->userinfo['usergroupid'], explode(',', $vbulletin->options['vb_survey_take_groups'])); $vbulletin->userinfo['can_view_survey_results'] = in_array($vbulletin->userinfo['usergroupid'], explode(',', $vbulletin->options['vb_survey_result_groups'])); if ($vbulletin->userinfo['userid']==0) { // override permissions for guests, since userid zero is messy // They can only see the results, if allowed in the admincp settings $vbulletin

I really appreciate if anybody can help me on this issue.
Thanks

[toucan42]

I'd like to see other examples of this in use. I am considering adding a survey as a subforum am hoping to see someone who has done this already and how it looks/functions.

[leroub]

somebody already translated this hack in French?

thx in advance...

[stevebullman]

[QUOTE=Spikeman;1136474][QUOTE=nanaimobar;1136365]

Originally Posted by Biggles

Go to the location of survey.php example http://www.yourdomain.com/forums/survey.php at the bottom of the survey page you should have a create new survey function. If you do not have this then you need to ensure you have added your usergroup to the Survey System Options in ACP. There are no other seetings within the ACP except for the Survey System Options.

i was having the same problems as these other guys....the survery shows in vbulletin options but nowhere else. i went to the link you you posted and i get this error message

Warning: main(./global.php) [function.main]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /home/arbtalk/public_html/forums/survey.php on line 7

Warning: main(./global.php) [function.main]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /home/arbtalk/public_html/forums/survey.php on line 7

Fatal error: main() [function.require]: Failed opening required './global.php' (include_path='.:/usr/lib/php:/usr/local/lib/php') in /home/arbtalk/public_html/forums/survey.php on line 7

[lasto]

the demo page in 1st post in IE throws up some pretty bad viruses when viewing it.
Had to terminate 3 with Mod32 so not sure why no one else gets them.

[fulviods]

i saw also some bad viruses...

[dutchbb]

Where can I translate this sentence: "Required questions were not answered"

I have been looking everywhere, thats one downside about this hack: no phrases....