Add-On Releases - World of Warcraft Guild Recruitment Form

This is a quick release of my Guild Application form

This uses the Online Gaming Recruitment addition as its base ( https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=182165 ) with a lot of modification to be warcraft specific and have part of it dynamicly created.

Also included is a small tool i wrote to automaticly approve/deny applications via thread prefixes and move threads to a "Graveyard".

From the Readme.
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All of the options in the control panel may be self explainitory (see images).

Editing the Application form template:
Adding new text field questions are automatic and done in the control panel.
Adding any other field is done through the template editor

Example:
<input type="text" size="30" value="$current_server" name="app[current_server]" />

Any application question must be in the format name="app[XXXXX]" , the value attribute
is the php variable for the preview.

Example of Dropdown (checkbox or radio fields follow similar concepts):
<select name="app[character_class]">
<option value="Druid" <if condition="$character_class == 'Druid'">selected="selected"</if> >Druid</option>
</select>

Every form MUST have the following code at the begining of the form
<form name="vbform" action="newthread.php" method="post" onSubmit="return vB_Editor['$editorid'].prepare_submit(0, $vboptions[postminchars])">
<input type="hidden" value="$formname" name="do" />
<input type="hidden" value="submit" name="action" />
<input type="hidden" name="posthash" value="$posthash" />
<input type="hidden" name="poststarttime" value="$poststarttime" />
<input type="hidden" name="securitytoken" value="$bbuserinfo[securitytoken]" />
<input type="hidden" name="s" value="$session[sessionhash]" />

and the following at the end of the form.
<input type="submit" value="Submit" name="submit" style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt" class="button" />
<input type="submit" value="Preview" name="submit" style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt" class="button" />
<input type="reset" value="Reset" name="reset" style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt" class="button" />

For the Comment Boxes, you place the variable, $comment_boxes , in the position you want them to appear in the template.

If you want unregistered users to post, you will need
<if condition="!$show['member']"> $human_verify </if>
somewhere in your application form.


Editing the Application Post Template:
Editing this is very straight forward. You put the php variable of the form field name, in the proper template location.
For example, if you have <input name="app[MyQuestion]"> , then you would put $MyQuestion in your template.

The default template requires a new BBCode entry (See images bbCode_Class.png and bbCode_Style.png)

For the Textarea Questions, you will need the following variable, $guild_app_answer_qa_message somewhere in your form.


Thread Prefixes
This makes use of Extensive Prefixes. See the PrefixExample and ThreadPrefixes images.

Application Tools:
This makes it very simple to change prefixes or move applications to other forums. Some of the important items are now a vbulletin option.

[sweede]

all that is changed in the Application_Answers template

[ErikkuShafer]

Originally Posted by sweede

all that is changed in the Application_Answers template

At the bottom of Application_Answers all I see is:

$guild_app_answer_qa_message

How can I change that? I couldn't find squat in the XML, again as I am more than likely blind

[sweede]

Oh right right, that is a phrase.

guild_app_qa_answer_form is the phrase name. the default is

[class=q2][b][color=red]{1}.[/color] {2} [/b][/class]
{3}

{1} is the question number.
{2} is the question itself
{3} is the answer

[Finger78]

Ok I guess I must be too new to vB to really know how to install this properly, I uploaded the xml's and added in questions via the options but where do I uploaded the "mini" folder with the images in it and where would I find the application on my site? Like what would be the address?

The readme seems to be very detailed, but maybe you could cater to the newer user and make it a bit more beginner friendly with installation/setup?

[sweede]

the images are for the prefix set. which you upload and create prefixes yourself, to whatever directory you want.

It's for the app_tools.xml product which is not needed by any means for the application itself to work. It's also wasnt designed to be beginner friendly

[Finger78]

Well you think you could give me a quick rundown on how/where to set the page address? I'm pretty new to all of this so any detail you can give me about this whole process would be appreciated.

[sweede]

Only talking about the guild_app product itself, it's totally self contained. you do not need the app_tools.xml or the images.

When you import the product, you'll have to go to the vbulletin options to set up the forum ID you want apps posted to , what user groups can post applications (generally you want registered members only to post apps, usergroup 2), etc.

Then you simply create a link some where that leads to
http://yoursite.com/newthread.php?do=apply (or http://yoursite.com/forums/newthread.php?do=apply or whatever).

As i said above, it wasnt something i ever planned on releasing and i wrote it for the 3 main guild sites i administrate. another guild on the server wanted to know if they could use it for their site so i created this product. It wasnt written for the "beginer" type of vb user and i havent had time or a need to really go through the code and clean it up and really formalize options like they should be.

A good knowledge of usergroug and forum permissions is needed and some php skills to be able to find and tweak some settings yourself.

If you want help installing this or general vbulletin help, you can contact me through MSN, im usually on all of the time and i think you can get that info from my member info here.

[Finger78]

Ahh ok I think I finally figured it out lol, only question I have is how can I center the form rather then it be on the left side?

Also had a small issue, when it creates a forum post it looks like this

[class="bigusername tcat"]Character Information[/class]

[char="Tich"] fgnfgnfdg [/char], Undead Priest

[class=q2]Class Spec[/class]
11 / 12 / 31

[class="bigusername tcat"]Current Professions[/class]

[class=q2]Profession 1[/class] - Herbalism
[class=q2]Profession 2[/class] - Skinning


[class="bigusername tcat"]Personal Information[/class]

[class=q2]Your name[/class] - joe

Anyway to get it to just display the questions/answers?

[Mithan]

I installed this form, however the problem I have is that after I submit it, it doesn't (never, even if I change the options from 0 to 4) takes me to the next page, though does post the Application on the forum. This obviously gives the person applying the impression they didn't post the app, so they do it repetedly.

Is there a way to fix that?

[Finger78]

Now that I test it it did the same to me as well