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:

[Erwin]

Originally Posted by Cheertobi

Hi,

I am sorry, I have not been through all of the thread right now! Just one quick question, is it also possible to post calender events via form.php?!

Regards,

Tobi

Possible but I have not added that function to the hack yet. I may in future.

[Erwin]

Originally Posted by Leeper

I just want to make sure that I'm on the right train of thought here before I jump in with this major addition. I believe that with this and some custom work I can come up with a much better solution than what we have now.
Currently we have a very cumbersome process for person to join our club. To register as a guest on the forum is very straight forward process as it is the one built by vB. To join the club however is a bit more of a pain. Member uses join form and once completed and they submit, an email is generated to the admin team and the new user is sent to paypal. The problem is that there is nothing explaining that they still need to register on the forums. Once payment is received the member is moved into the member area but again, this is a very separate process that I?d like to integrate.
Can I create a "Join Form" with all of the variables that I need and a payment function that then leads the user into the registration area? The new join form would post the information into an admin forum.

Sorry if I?m posting this in the wrong area and I?m probably over complicating this but I?m a novice trying to find a better way.

That can be done - you just change the redirect options.

[ChrisBaktis]

Erwin,

I use this form to post trades between two members and currently have it setup to post the trade to a a specific form...I would also like to have it so it sends a PM to the other member (the person posting the form has to enter the other members name). Could I use the form answer variable to do this? Also if it is possible, and the person posting the trade enters a wrong member name (misspelled etc) would it still post in the form but not send the pm?

[Erwin]

Originally Posted by ChrisBaktis

Erwin,

I use this form to post trades between two members and currently have it setup to post the trade to a a specific form...I would also like to have it so it sends a PM to the other member (the person posting the form has to enter the other members name). Could I use the form answer variable to do this? Also if it is possible, and the person posting the trade enters a wrong member name (misspelled etc) would it still post in the form but not send the pm?

Yes, you can definitely do all that. It's only a matter of changing the variables and adding a line to the code to search for the userid in order to send the pm.

[Leeper]

Originally Posted by Erwin

That can be done - you just change the redirect options.

Wow! Normally I can see work that has been done and customize it a bit but I'm just not having much luck with this. Erwin thank you for your hard work and rather than pestering you with another question every hour or so, can you recommend someone to build a fairly elaborate form? Your work is great and I can see a ton of applications for this but in this particular case I'm working with a time constraint and it needs to be done right the first time since it will be handling money transactions.

[ChrisBaktis]

Originally Posted by Erwin

Yes, you can definitely do all that. It's only a matter of changing the variables and adding a line to the code to search for the userid in order to send the pm.

I can do the variables but can you help with the line of code to search for the userid?

[DarrinM]

Can anyone advise me or provide help with the following scenario

When viewing someone's profile I wish to be able to click to open up a new form which will then be sent both to the person who's profile is being viewed and also to a third party preset email address.

I understand how to get most of the data prefilled on the form (such as the senders email address) but cannot see how I can pass the username and usernames email address of the person who's profile is being viewed into and to be used by the form

An alternative to doing this would be the ability to select a user from the member list (maybe in drop down) and then return to the form and populate the fields with their name, email address and maybe a custom field from their profile

Hope someone can assist and many thanks in advance

Regards

Darrin

[Jolten]

The variables for the profile owners page are $userinfo[username] etc. rather than $bbuserinfo.. you should be able to use those to fill out form fields.

[ge66]

Seemes to be a very useful hack.

I have a suggestion/question. Is i possible to make a form that I can fill in and submit today and that will be posted as a thred on Sunday say 7 am.

I want to use this to be able to spread news articles that I post at one time over several days.

I also guess it could be nice if you wanted a poll posted 6 am the first day of the month or something.

A chance to post a thread at any given date and time that you set in a form.

[Cheertobi]

Hi,

once again, have not been through all post of this thread. Just want to let you know, that I found two missing TABLE_PREFIXes!

$DB_site->query("INSERT INTO post (postid,threadid,title,username,userid,dateline,pagetext,allowsmilie,showsignature,ipaddress,iconid,visible) VALUES (NULL,'$formreplythreadid','".addslashes(htmlspecialchars($bbuserinfo[username]))." $formtitle','".addslashes($bbuserinfo[username])."','$bbuserinfo[userid]','".time()."','" . addslashes($formsend) . "','1','1','0','0','1')");
	  $DB_site->query("UPDATE thread SET replycount = replycount + 1, lastpost = " . TIMENOW . ", lastposter = '".addslashes($bbuserinfo[username])."' WHERE threadid = $formreplythreadid"); 
	                  $DB_site->query("
                                UPDATE " . TABLE_PREFIX . "forum
                                SET replycount = replycount +  1,
                                lastpost = " . TIMENOW . ",
                                lastposter = '".addslashes(htmlspecialchars($bbuserinfo[username]))."',
                                lastthread = '" . addslashes($bbuserinfo['username']) . " $formtitle',
                                lastthreadid = $formreplythreadid
                                WHERE forumid = $formreplyforumid

have to be like

$DB_site->query("INSERT INTO " . TABLE_PREFIX . "post (postid,threadid,title,username,userid,dateline,pagetext,allowsmilie,showsignature,ipaddress,iconid,visible) VALUES (NULL,'$formreplythreadid','".addslashes(htmlspecialchars($bbuserinfo[username]))." $formtitle','".addslashes($bbuserinfo[username])."','$bbuserinfo[userid]','".time()."','" . addslashes($formsend) . "','1','1','0','0','1')");
	  $DB_site->query("UPDATE " . TABLE_PREFIX . "thread SET replycount = replycount + 1, lastpost = " . TIMENOW . ", lastposter = '".addslashes($bbuserinfo[username])."' WHERE threadid = $formreplythreadid"); 
	                  $DB_site->query("
                                UPDATE " . TABLE_PREFIX . "forum
                                SET replycount = replycount +  1,
                                lastpost = " . TIMENOW . ",
                                lastposter = '".addslashes(htmlspecialchars($bbuserinfo[username]))."',
                                lastthread = '" . addslashes($bbuserinfo['username']) . " $formtitle',
                                lastthreadid = $formreplythreadid
                                WHERE forumid = $formreplyforumid

Anyway, it is a really great hack, can I parse BBCode for Bold etc. in anyway?!

Tobi