Forms Hack

Forms Hack 3.5

Features:

Ever wanted an online form that a user can fill out, which when submitted gets:

• Posted into a new thread in a forum of your choice
• Create a new poll in the new thread with options of your choice
• Posted as a reply in an existing thread of your choice
• PMed to you or someone else
• Emailed to an email address you specify
• Choose to redirect to the post, thread or forum, or a custom thank you message
• Choose to redirect to edit post to upload attachments
• See a preview before they submit

Or any combination or all of the above?

Well, this is the hack for you!

You can use this for:

• Moderator Applications
• Quiz Submit Form which gets PMed to a moderator
• Contact Form that goes to PM, email or thread
• Guests to apply to be members
• Report a Moderator form that goes as a PM to you
• Guests can PM you for whatever reason
• Order form to buy things
• Donation form
• News or Articles submissions that can go straight to a thread

Or anything you like - this hack is totally customizable via the AdminCP.

The beauty of this hack is that once you install this hack, to make a new form all you need to do is copy the main hook, rename it to whatever you want, edit the variables in the hook, and you have a totally new form!!! You do not need to touch the templates again, but can always create new ones and use different templates for different forms.

Format of the form:

• One main input question
• 3 Radio buttons Choice questions
• 3 Normal text input questions
• 1 Drop down menu
• 3 Check boxes
• 1 Long answer question
• 1 VB message editor text box question

This is customizable via the hook.

Also:

• You can set the usergroups you want access to this form.
• Depending on your forum permissions, if the new thread is in a public forum, members can reply to it. This hack allows a form to submit the new thread or post wherever you want it to go.
• Force the user to answer all questions.

INSTALLATION
Easy - takes only a few minutes:

• Import the XML into products. (admin cp -> Plug-in System -> Manage Products -> Add/Import Product)
• Edit the main plug-in - the instructions are all inside the hook itself, in the top half. Follow the instructions carefully!
• To get to the form, go to: /newthread.php?do=form (change "form" to the name of your form if you have few)

Done!

Use this hack to make as many forms as you like!

Enjoy!

Updates:

Version 2.0: (08/10/2005)

• Ported over for vb3.5

Version 2.1: (08/10/2005)

• bug fix with answers not showing

Version 2.5: (08/13/2005)

• Major update:
• Templates have a few lines changed here and there.
• You can now have more then 2 poll options very easily
• Polls can't be created if your not creating a new thread
• New Thread now uses VB function to add the thread
• New Poll now uses VB function to add the poll
• New Reply now uses VB function to add the reply
• PM now uses VB function to send the PM

Version 2.6: (08/21/2005)

• fixed bug with posts having to be moderated

Version 2.7: (08/23/2005)

• Minor update:
• Fixed some issues with signatures, URL parsing, and subscriptions
• Option to name the post titles
• Made template XHTML 1.0 Transitional

Version 3.0: (11/29/2005)

• Major update:
• Added drop down menu
• Made the long answer show up in a the vb message box
• Re-wrote some instructions
• Pressing back should save work
• Both templates and plug-in were edited
• Some more minor things

Version 3.1: (12/07/2005)

• Brought back the standard text box (longanswer)

Version 3.2: (12/09/2005)

• [ADDED] Option to make polls public.

Version 3.3: (12/19/2005)

• [FIXED] Guests can now post using the forms to make a thread or post. They cannot send a PM though.
• [ADDED] Paypal link so you can make a donation for this hack.

Version 3.4: (04/05/2006)

• [FIXED] Removed extra line from template.
• [ADDED] WYSIWYG editor now works besides the regular editor.
• [ADDED] Preview.
• [CHANGED] Subscriptions now take from user default setting.

Version 3.5: (05/31/2006)

• [ADDED] Check boxes.

Abe1 with rights from Dr Erwin Loh

This hack is created for your use free of charge. No payment is requested. However, if you would like to donate money for the work I put in to this hack, a donation would show your appreciation.

[sully02]

Originally Posted by Puntoboy

ah so its in the xml file and not here in this code?

It's not reachable if you edit via the plugin manager. I just finished some serious modification to the templates for my form, so it is possible to make it work deviating from the current lineup of questions:

http://sports-boards.net/forums/newthread.php?do=lmdapp

To do so requires at least some HTML knowledge, so if you don't feel comfortable with it, I can take a look at what you've got and work with it to make it look sorta decent.

[sully02]

Originally Posted by 1996 328ti

No, the templates are in the Style & Templates section. The original templates are named form and formanswers.

Correct. I just never bothered to look there. I edited directly from the XML file and imported with an overwrite. That said, either option would work (XML or Styles & Templates).

[Puntoboy]

thats brilliant.

basically the forum i'm trying to create is a membership application form for the club.

i need these fields:

Title (Mr, Mrs, Miss, Ms etc.)
First Name
Surname
Address
Town
County
Post Code
Country
Date of Birth
Daytime Tel.
Evening Tel.
Mobile Tel.
E-mail
Punto mark
Model
Year
Registration
Colour
Payment Method (which needs to be Paypal, Cash, Cheque, Postal Order, Other... Please Specifiy)

and thats it.

all pretty straight forward except the last one.

[sully02]

Originally Posted by Puntoboy

thats brilliant.

basically the forum i'm trying to create is a membership application form for the club.

i need these fields:

Title (Mr, Mrs, Miss, Ms etc.)
First Name
Surname
Address
Town
County
Post Code
Country
Date of Birth
Daytime Tel.
Evening Tel.
Mobile Tel.
E-mail
Punto mark
Model
Year
Registration
Colour
Payment Method (which needs to be Paypal, Cash, Cheque, Postal Order, Other... Please Specifiy)

and thats it.

all pretty straight forward except the last one.

Sounds good. If you'd like, I can scrape something semi-decent together for you.

[Puntoboy]

that would be great.

at least then i can see everything i need to do for next time.

[sully02]

Originally Posted by Puntoboy

that would be great.

at least then i can see everything i need to do for next time.

Wasn't able to test this out on my board, but give this a shot and let me know how it works:

[onkel.joi]

I have a small question. Is it possible to remove question from the final thread if the answer was not given? For example: What is your name?: ____________
The answer is not give for this, so I want in the final thread not to have that question, but if in the other thread user would answer that question it should appear in the final thread. Hopefully I did not get everybody confused. Thanks

[Code Monkey]

Why is my post message wraped in the following when I test this unchanged?

<!-- BEGIN TEMPLATE: formanswers -->

<!-- END TEMPLATE: formanswers -->

[sully02]

Originally Posted by JumpD

Why is my post message wraped in the following when I test this unchanged?

<!-- BEGIN TEMPLATE: formanswers -->


<!-- END TEMPLATE: formanswers -->

Because you are in debug mode on your forums. I would turn that off.

[Code Monkey]

It's a dev site first of all.

It was doing that because "Add Template Name in HTML Comments" Was set to "yes". Even so, it should not put it in the post.

[bluesteel]

Originally Posted by bluesteel

Great hack Abe1. Having some fun with it,but now I'm stuck
I don't know if this is possible, but in the answers, can a conditional be set somewhere that show an image depending on what the $radioanswer1 answer is?

ie if radioanswer 1 = Yes, show image 1
else
show image 2

if you know what I mean lol

Can anybody help me please?

[Puntoboy]

Originally Posted by sully02

Wasn't able to test this out on my board, but give this a shot and let me know how it works:

thats brilliant thank you.

its not quite right but i think i can sort it. well i hope.

http://www.puntosports.co.uk/forums/...do=Application

[D.Ilyin]

Originally Posted by RMS-Chef

You can use vBcode in your answer template.
There is one thing mentioned above, make sure there is a space after the last opening tag and before the first closing tag. Otherwise I think you get an error when you try to save the template.

An example taken from one of my answer templates:

[center][u][b][size=5] $subjecttitleans [/size][/b][/u][/center]

$longanswer1

[center] _____________________________________________ [/center]

[b] $subjectdate [/b]: $subjectdateans
[b] $subjectlocation [/b]: $subjectlocationans
[b] $filesize [/b]: $filesizeans
[b] $fileruntime [/b]: $fileruntimeans
[b] $fileformat [/b]: $fileformatans

[center] _____________________________________________ 

[u][b][size=5] $longquestion2 [/size][/b][/u][/center]

$longanswer2

[center] _____________________________________________ 

[u][b][size=5] $longquestion3 [/size][/b][/u][/center]

$longanswer3

RMS-Chef thank's man!
I readed this topic tree times before i find answer on my question.
I think this must be placed in plugin as example, because it's not "visible" option for beginers.
And is there any chance to remove those spaces in replies? I mean how can i use BBCODEs in answer form without spaces?

[steven s]

Originally Posted by bluesteel

Can anybody help me please?

I've been using a condition to change the color of a table cell and add required if there is no answer.
$bbuserinfo[field14] is one of my profile fields. This is done in your form.

<if condition="$bbuserinfo[field14]">
<td class="alt1" valign="top">$bbuserinfo[field14]<else />
<td bgcolor="#ffff66" valign="top"><font size="-2">required</font></if>
</td>

[onkel.joi]

Originally Posted by onkel.joi

I have a small question. Is it possible to remove question from the final thread if the answer was not given? For example: What is your name?: ____________
The answer is not give for this, so I want in the final thread not to have that question, but if in the other thread user would answer that question it should appear in the final thread. Hopefully I did not get everybody confused. Thanks

Any help for me? :ermm: