FORM to THREAD/ FORUM/ POLL/ PM/ EMAIL - CUSTOMIZABLE FORMS - Mod Apps, Orders, News.

FORM to THREAD/ FORUM/ POLL/ PM/ EMAIL - Totally CUSTOMIZABLE FORMS
Version 1.6 for vBulletin 3.x.x by Dr Erwin Loh

Features:

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

1. Posted into a new thread in a forum of your choice
2. Create a new poll in the new thread with options of your choice
3. Posted as a reply in an existing thread of your choice
4. PMed to you or someone else
5. Emailed to an email address you specify
6. Choose to redirect to the post, thread or forum, or a custom thank you message
7. Choose to redirect to editpost to upload attachments

Or any combination or all of the above?

Well, this is the hack for you!

You can use this for:

1) Moderator Applications
2) Quiz Submit Form which gets PMed to a moderator
3) Contact Form that goes to PM, email or thread
4) Guests to apply to be members
5) Report a Moderator form that goes as a PM to you
6) Guests can PM you for whatever reason
7) Order form to buy things
8) Donation form
9) News or Articles submissions that can go straight to a thread


Or anything you like - this hack is totally customizable via the PHP file.
Basically, this hack involves modifying 1 PHP file form.php (you add questions, options etc. in the PHP file itself), uploading it, and then adding 2 templates.

The beauty of this hack is that once you have added the 2 templates, to make a new form, all you need to do is copy the form.php and rename it to form2.php, edit the variables in the PHP file, and you have a totally new form!!! You do not need to touch the templates again.

Format of the form:

1. One main input question
2. 2 Radio buttons Choice questions
3. 3 Normal text input questions
4. 1 Long answer question

This is customizable via the PHP file.

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:

1. Add the 2 templates.

2. Edit form.php - the instructions are all inside the PHP file itself, in the top half. Follow the instructions carefully!

3. Upload form.php

Just link to form1.php eg. http://www.yourforum.com/forums/form.php

Done!

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

Enjoy!


Updates:

Version 1.1 - Option to force user to answer all questions.
Version 1.2 - Thread count and lastposter information now updated if form is sent to existing thread.
Version 1.3 - ADDED CREATE POLL OPTION!
Version 1.4 - Fixed bug with Form-to-thread code
Version 1.5 - Major update:
- fixed bug where thread count not updated when form to forum
- fixed default posting to allow smilies and sigs when reply to thread
- added templates to cache (saves 2 queries)
- added option to change thank you message
- added options to redirect to post, thread or forum when submit
Version 1.6 - Choose to redirect to editpost to upload attachments

Screenshot is an example of a form - the form title and questions are customizable:

[Jolten]

No chance on this huh?

Originally Posted by Me

Wonderful hack. I've been using it for some time.

I was wondering if you could possibly help me pass a variable through the form?

I've set the form to open in a popup window with no title/scroll/tool bars. It gets filled out and then posted to a forum and emailed. It works wonderfully. I'd like to pass a variable from the link to the forum, through to the forum answers. I've added ?id=$var&cad=$var to the link.. and used the $_GET commands in form.php to pull them, then applied them to a new variable

e.g:

$id=$_GET['id'];
$cat=$_GET['cat'];
$link="http://www.domain.com?id=".$id."&cat=".$cat;

Then I've added $link to the formanswers template.

$link gets parsed and works, but the $id and $cat variables are not being set.

Is this possibly due to the lack of an address bar in the window where the form displays?

any help would be appreciated. thanks

thanks

[ChrisBaktis]

Originally Posted by Erwin

I don't use the searchindex so I never had to add it as I use the mysql fulltext index.

When I find time I may add the option to update searchindex.

That would be GREAT, and much appreciated, Erwin.

[kangta]

[high]* kangta clicks Install
[/high]

Excellent hack.

I noticed a bit of a glitch, I don't know whether or not it's been noted/addressed previously. I've been testing my customized setup rather extensively ever since I managed to get it to work. I read earlier that posts made via this form aren't added to a user's post count, and I saw that to be a good thing considering what my form was being used for. However, since I was testing and posting several threads I didn't need, I deleted each one afterwards. The forum is a new installation, and I soon noticed that I had a post count of zero even though I had posts elsewhere not made by the form. I know that the reason for this is because the posts submitted through the form don't add to your post count, while physically deleting a thread takes away from your post count anyway, but I just wanted to point that out.

[Abe1]

Originally Posted by scoheb

Hi,

I installed your hack and it is working wonderfully.

I use the form to reply to thread feature and it seems that the search index is not getting updated.

Is anyone having this problem?

Thanks,

SH

Do what I do. Make the forum to go the 'edit post' page. When the user clicks 'update' then the post will go to the index.

[Dan]

Any one happen to know a way to make it so the people who have instant email turned on don't get an email? I'm currently using it as a moderator application forum and my staff would like to comment on the applications but if they do the person who sent the app would recieve an email if they have instant subscribe on.

Thanks!

[Jolten]

I'm still looking for a way to pass a variable through the form.

[Erwin]

Originally Posted by Jolten

I'm still looking for a way to pass a variable through the form.

You need to add the variable to the top of the PHP file where variables are checked for security reasons.

[Jolten]

Originally Posted by Erwin

You need to add the variable to the top of the PHP file where variables are checked for security reasons.

Thank's for replying Erwin.

I added the following to the top of the form.php file

// ####################### SET PHP ENVIRONMENT ###########################
error_reporting(E_ALL & ~E_NOTICE);

define('NO_REGISTER_GLOBALS', 1);
define('THIS_SCRIPT', 'flagcomm'); // change this depending on your filename

$catid=$_POST['catid'];
$cad=$_POST['cad'];
$linkUrl="http://www.domain.com/page.php?id=".$catid."&cad=".$cad."&type=a";


// ################### PRE-CACHE TEMPLATES AND DATA ######################

// get special phrase groups
$phrasegroups = array(

);

But I can't seem to pull the link into the form answers. $linkurl works fine in the answers but the two variables are empty.

I've also added hidden inputs to the form template for both these variables.

[ericgtr]

Hmm, I am wondering if one of you guys who have worked a lot with this can help me out. What I would like use this for is a confirmation page so basically when a user clicks the "Submit new thread" button in forrumid=106 it takes them to a page that says "did you remember to do this and that?" then if they click "yes" the are redirected to the post page and if they select "no" they receive a can't continue (or something similar).

[Spinball]

Originally Posted by ericgtr

Hmm, I am wondering if one of you guys who have worked a lot with this can help me out. What I would like use this for is a confirmation page so basically when a user clicks the "Submit new thread" button in forrumid=106 it takes them to a page that says "did you remember to do this and that?" then if they click "yes" the are redirected to the post page and if they select "no" they receive a can't continue (or something similar).

Yes, I have done exactly that. Please see my earlier post in this thead.