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.

[JsnakeJ]

Any chance of a working demo? Thank you.

[Snake]

<a href="http://forums.mgszone.com/competitions.php" target="_blank">http://forums.mgszone.com/competitions.php</a>

You'll need to register inorder to view the competition page.

[concepts]

is there any way to delete entries? per the admincp?
and how do you change the thankyou PM?

[Snake]

Yes you can delete entries via the ACP.

You'll need to edit the phrase using Phrase Manager.

[JsnakeJ]

Nice forum man. Thanks for this hack.

[Snake]

Hehe thank you for your compliment. Wait to see the new skin.

[husain]

For those who would like to customize this hack, all phrases and templates begin with hkc_

[SnowBot]

Originally Posted by husain

Agree. I meant to add multiple-question functionality for quite some time now. Unfortunately I haven't been able to dedicate enough time for it's development. Maybe if enough people show interest, I may be motivated to set aside a couple of hours everyday to add this functionality

Multiple questions is the way to go so yer i second the motion to do it mate

[Hoffi]

What about to build in a start date? I want to build a Advent Calendar, and every Day only one Question should be displayed.

[DJ XtAzY]

yay i hope i can use this as a contest thing