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.

[dartho]

I installed and had working under 3.7.3 pl1 with no issues - double check all your settings

[Nadavy]

Would it be possible to make this mod controllable through administrator permissions so only some administrators see it ?

[jessp]

icecubejackal, you do not have permission to access this page. This could be due to one of several reasons:

1. If you are trying to post, the administrator may have disabled your account, or it may be awaiting activation.
2. You have not filled out some required fields in your profile. Please ensure that the following fields are filled out:

1. I already do the permission on admincp
2. Im confused of the Mandatory Profile Fields?? which id im going to put user id? or group id?

im using 3.7.3 version

[jessp]

Anybody here can give any help regarding with my current problem encountered?

[uwebgg]

does anybody got it working on 3.8.0? I got a DB error when I complete a competition

[SVTCobraLTD]

Can anyone post a demo?

[dmknights]

will this be updated to 3.8?

[thompson]

i have it online since 3.6 without problems.

has anyone changed the mod, that competitions did by moderators ?

[SVTCobraLTD]

Anyone have a demo they could post of this?

[Veelox]

Originally Posted by jellybaby

Edited because I found out why I couldnt access it, had to go into usergroups and right to the bottom to select allow to enter

Thats what i had to do for every usergroup.

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