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tamarian: Who originally made this a vB hack for vB 3.5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

[jpbryan]

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

He found it, but to save me I can't.. Help please...

[jpbryan]

Hello,

I got in, I think, (see previous post) but I am getting this;

Warning: chmod(): Operation not permitted in /survey/smarty/Smarty.class.php on line 1454

I had to CHMOD to 777 the survey folder and all files...

What am I doing wrong?

Thanks...

[Heika]

I just installed this survey software, and it is incredible. My only concern is whether it will be updated to work with 3.7.0...

[SteveC]

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

well I can't figure it out. The instructions in one place say to go to admincp/vbsurvey_install.php but there's no files in the admincp folder in the download.

Could you please add some instructions to the main post along with the install instructions?

Can someone tell me how to get it to run?

[Heika]

After you get it all installed, go to whatever your forum's name is, and then add /survey.php.

www.whateveryourforumiscalled.com/survey.php

From there, you can create whatever type of survey you would like. The mod has a really nice survey setup area, very versatile.

Heika

[SteveC]

Thanks Heika. I had tried that, but all it does is bring up a screen to take or view sample surveys. Shouldn't there be a button or link within my forum to create surveys? And for users to take them once one is created?

I suspect there's some installation step that didn't happen. Was there supposed to be a file in the admincp folder in the download?

[Bubble #5]

Originally Posted by Heika

My only concern is whether it will be updated to work with 3.7.0...

Yes, is there any word on this?

[Heika]

Originally Posted by SteveC

Thanks Heika. I had tried that, but all it does is bring up a screen to take or view sample surveys. Shouldn't there be a button or link within my forum to create surveys? And for users to take them once one is created?

I suspect there's some installation step that didn't happen. Was there supposed to be a file in the admincp folder in the download?

Hi Steve,

At the bottom of the screen, does it have a link text that says, "Create New Survey" and "Documentation"? If not, there is a problem with the installation or your permissions. Did you give admins permission to create a survey? You can find the screen to grant permissions under Vbulletin Options------> Survey System options. 5 and 6 are moderators and admins, unless you created special user groups. 2 is registered users for most groups, and that would give them permission to take the surveys you create.

The admincp folder in the installation package was empty for me, too.

Heika

[Basit]

Thank you very much, it's working great on my site.

http://www.hallagulla.com/urdu/survey.php

Regards,

[dilbert]

Originally Posted by Basit

Thank you very much, it's working great on my site.

http://www.hallagulla.com/urdu/survey.php

Regards,

What version of vB are you using? I see you are using branding free, if you don't want to post it here, feel free to PM it to me.

Thanks