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tamarian: Who originally made this a vB hack for vB 3.5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

[prabhgrewal]

Hey Spikeman,

Sorry if i sound a little dumb on this , but could you help me out here....i did everything as you said...but for the life of me cant figure out a way to access the survey on my site...i mean i installed the product (imported it into Admin CP) etc etc ...but how do i use the survey ?? I Cant see it on the site...

Cheers

[prabhgrewal]

Originally Posted by prabhgrewal

Hey Spikeman,

Sorry if i sound a little dumb on this , but could you help me out here....i did everything as you said...but for the life of me cant figure out a way to access the survey on my site...i mean i installed the product (imported it into Admin CP) etc etc ...but how do i use the survey ?? I Cant see it on the site...

Cheers

Ignore this .....managed to get it working... great hack spikeman..

Thanks

[amiecn]

anyone know if this works with 3.6.8 or if there is one that is compatible with 3.6.8?

[VGPelega]

I have seen several other posts with this error:

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

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:/usr/local/lib/php')

And it has not been answered, addressed, or responded to.

I am having this error aswel, and I would very much like to enjoy this mod, and click installed. Please can you provide us with a solution to this error please. I have followed your instructions, (about 7 times now) and I have had no luck. I am running 3.6.8 and if this is just a permissions issue, please let me know.

Spike is here for about 4 mins every 2-3 months, he is obviously busy, perhaps pass this onto someone else, who can finish it off, and take it out of Beta Stage, and provide sufficient support for this awesome hack?

[patch developer]

Actually i faced some trouble with this survey system and then i found a solution for it , the problem was writing permissions to the directories under survey directory , to solve this i change the access right to 755 except this file under smarty directory which called smarty.class.php you have to keep it as 644 to work fine

i translate the template defult into arabic as i could as it was possible and you can find this in attachments

thanks alot for the coder of this , this solution can help alot in researches

[goorgoor]

i get this error:

Error: Cannot find file: ./survey/smarty/Smarty.class.php

[David_McPherson]

I've looked through this thread for an answer to this question and my apologies if its been answered.

When I go to http://links.domain.com/forum/survey.php I get this:

WARNING: Cannot find default template path. Expecting: D:\\webpage\\links/survey/templates/Default

The location of the these templates for survey should be...

<rootweb>\links\FORUM\survey\templates\default.. . Or something like that.

On line 7 of the survey.php it has:

require("./global.php");

this that determines the location.. Or am I wrong? Its just not pointing to the right place.

[klaush]

I never got this stuff to work with 3.5.x, but this is working fine with 3.6.8. Thank you for the amazing job on this mod!

Did anybody translate this mod in the German language?

[David_McPherson]

I'm on 3.6.3 and still nothing. Same problem as above.

[JADM]

I am using 3.6.8, no problems...This is a great product! One question, can you update/edit a previously completed survey? I am trying to get people to post time of various events as they go through a process. But if not, I think I have to break my 25 question survey down into steps in the process.

Also, anyone know what is up with support? It looks like Spikeman has not been around in a long time. This is a great tool, its a shame if it just withers on the vine.

Thanks!