Competitions

Description
Adds a competition module to your forums. You can create as many competitions and allow members to participate in them.

Features

• Ability to force participants to fill certain custom profile fields
• Send Private Message to members who participate in the competitions
• Ability to allow more than one entry from a participant
• Input field for answers can be either a textbox, a textarea, radio buttons or a drop-down menu
• If the input type is radio buttons or a drop-down menu, the system can filter out wrong answers and generate a list of winners by picking random participants
• Schedule competitions by setting the starting date (user contributed)
• Very customizable

Installation

1. Upload all necessary files to their respective directories.
2. Install the product XML file.
3. Edit the navbar template to add a link to competitions.php page. (see below)
4. Set necessary permissions for each usergroup to access and/or participate in competitions.
5. Edit the "hkc_nopermission_loggedin" and "hkc_winner_congratulate_message" phrase to customize to your taste.

Upgrade

1. Upload all necessary files to their respective directories.
2. Install the product XML file. Be sure to set "Allow Overwrite" to Yes.

Editing the navbar template

1. Open the navbar template

2. Find:

<td class="vbmenu_control"><a href="calendar.php$session[sessionurl_q]">$vbphrase[calendar]</a></td>

3. Add after:

<td class="vbmenu_control"><a href="competitions.php$session[sessionurl_q]">$vbphrase[hkc_competitions]</a></td>

4. Save template

Author Notes
This extension was developed specifically for my website but I am releasing the code since a few members here have have shown interest. I cannot state that it is totally free of bugs. I would appreciate your feedback in making this extension better.

Maybe in Future
At the moment, the question is only restricted to one per competition. I would like to have the ability to add more than one question per competition.

[ringleader]

Originally Posted by Mum

I would love it for 3.6

I installed it (probably without looking at the versioning).
I now use 3.6.8 and it's still working fine.

[MuzzyElite]

For those who dont get access, just goto usergroups and goto the bottom and set the competition settings to yes.

And, how do I add competitions?

[Hoffi]

In the Admin CP you can add them.

[daFish]

First: Great addon. I really like it, but I might have found a bug.

I've created a competition with a multiple line answer type and typed in the possible answers, e.g.:

• Bill Gates & Steve Jobs
• George Bush & Bill Clinton
• etc.

In the field for the right answer I copied the text from the textfield and pasted it into the field.
When viewing the recent entries for this competition, one of the usermade entries was the correct answer, although it is displayed as wrong.
Seems to be a bug.

[daFish]

After looking at the database were the competition data is stored, I noticed that the possible answers a HTML encoded (&amp while the real answer was not. After fixing this by hand, the correct answer is no more striken.

[vwdforum]

I've just added this close protection competitions which is version 3.8

It works like a dream, I've added a competition easily

thanks

[manning]

Originally Posted by vwdforum

I've just added this close protection competitions which is version 3.8

Do you mean 3.6.8 ?

[pmcnamara]

So this works on ver 3.6.x then also ?

[hrk]

is this comp with vb3.7 series?

thanks

[leannet]

Editing the navbar template

Where do I find this?