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tamarian: Who originally made this a vB hack for vB 3.5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

[MDK-Indy]

Originally Posted by Datenpapst

I have got a problem with the survey. Its not showing the results afert I answered the questions. Dont know why

I have the same problem.
Can anyone help me?

greeting Indy

[Defkalion]

Can anyone port this to work with v3.7 also? It is a very useful tool to ignore!

[powerful_rogue]

The following dependencies were not met:

1. This product is not compatible with version 3.7.0 Release Candidate 2 of vBulletin. (Compatible starting with 3.6.0 / Incompatible with 3.6.99 and greater)

Thats such a shame. I really hope this will be updated to work with 3.7 as I could really do with this on my board.

[powerful_rogue]

Ive just removed

<dependencies>
<dependency dependencytype="vbulletin" minversion="3.6.0" maxversion="3.6.99"></dependency>
</dependencies>

from the product file and it installs fine. Had a quick look and it seems to be working with no errors. Will give it a proper test later, however looks like it is compatable with 3.7

[oleg.bno]

Followed all instructions, in vbulletin options showed up as survey system options, all the options are good but nothing shows up on a forum..
How do I create s survey?

I have vBulletin v3.6.10 and vB Survey 3.6.3

Thanks

[Defkalion]

Did you access the survey page? (yourforumname.com/forumdirectory/survey.php) ?

[edytwinky]

Nice hack!

[Heika]

I finally got around to upgrading to 3.7.1, and I am very happy to report that the survey works just fine for me, after I removed the dependency stuff from the product file as suggested by powerful rogue.

Very powerful.. excellent survey software.

[pauldack]

Nice, jsut what I'm looking for but can't get it working.

Not sure what I'm doing wrong here. Uploaded survey.php to forum diretory, uploaded survey folder to forum directory and isntalled product, all ok. Whne I browse to forumname/survey.php I get error below when the path name it's expecting is actually the directoy above my forum?

WARNING: Cannot find default template path. Expecting:

Serched this thread and can't find any help. Appreciate any pointers.

[mtbnj_guy]

Hi.

It tells me that I can't install on anything greater than 3.6.99. True?

If not, what is the magic

Thanks.
Tim