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.

[RMS-Chef]

Originally Posted by Abe1

This way do dont have to wait,

Find this 2 times:
$newpost['title'] =& $formtitle;

and replace the $formtitle with any varable you want from the form. If you want 2 together, put them in quotes.

Thanks Abe1 for you help and support thus far. I am having issues as to the proper code to replace $formtitle with.
I have 3 custom variables that I would like to combine to generate the thread title.
($subjecttitleans $subjectdateans and $subjectlocationans)

I have tried two different versions of code:

$newpost['title'] =& "$subjecttitleans" "$subjectdateans" "$subjectlocationans";

$newpost['title'] =& "$subjecttitleans $subjectdateans $subjectlocationans";

Both give me the following error code displayed at the top of the page (btw, line 266 is the first instance of the code replacment):

Parse error: parse error, unexpected '\"', expecting T_NEW or T_STRING or T_VARIABLE or '$' in /home/XXXXX/public_html/newthread.php(68) : eval()'d code on line 266

Also, the form does not load and instead I get a vB error message that says:

Invalid Forum specified. If you followed a valid link, please notify the administrator

Finally, if I just use one of my custom variables to replace $formtitle the form loads properly and the resulting thread title has the proper $subjecttitleans text.

Sorry, I am good with templates but ignorent on code. Any help on this would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!

[Abe1]

Originally Posted by RMS-Chef

Thanks Abe1 for you help and support thus far. I am having issues as to the proper code to replace $formtitle with.
I have 3 custom variables that I would like to combine to generate the thread title.
($subjecttitleans $subjectdateans and $subjectlocationans)

I have tried two different versions of code:

$newpost['title'] =& "$subjecttitleans" "$subjectdateans" "$subjectlocationans";

$newpost['title'] =& "$subjecttitleans $subjectdateans $subjectlocationans";

Both give me the following error code displayed at the top of the page (btw, line 266 is the first instance of the code replacment):

Parse error: parse error, unexpected '\"', expecting T_NEW or T_STRING or T_VARIABLE or '$' in /home/XXXXX/public_html/newthread.php(68) : eval()'d code on line 266

Also, the form does not load and instead I get a vB error message that says:

Invalid Forum specified. If you followed a valid link, please notify the administrator

Finally, if I just use one of my custom variables to replace $formtitle the form loads properly and the resulting thread title has the proper $subjecttitleans text.

Sorry, I am good with templates but ignorent on code. Any help on this would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!

Drop the &

Use this:

PHP Code:

$newpost['title'] = "$subjecttitleans $subjectdateans $subjectlocationans"; 


[RMS-Chef]

Kick Ass! That is working flawlessly.

I eagerly await a fix to the URL parse thing.

Again, thanks so much for you help and effort.

[mooj]

Abe1 ..

it would be good if you add one (var) to count ( How many users completed and send the FORM ) in the FORM page ..

I need to use it in my Form in order to inform them the quantity .. ( it should be an optional feature )

thank you in advance Abe1 ..

[RMS-Chef]

Ahh, I have this working and highly customized and it is really damn near a perfect hack.

I came up with I think one last issue. When posting, it automatically subscribes the user posting to the thread. Is there any way to prevent this?

[Abe1]

Originally Posted by RMS-Chef

Ahh, I have this working and highly customized and it is really damn near a perfect hack.

I came up with I think one last issue. When posting, it automatically subscribes the user posting to the thread. Is there any way to prevent this?

Can you see if it's deafut it to be subscibed? I'm going to go through all the settings for a post hopefully in a day or two to fix things like this and the url parsing.

[RMS-Chef]

Originally Posted by Abe1

Can you see if it's deafut it to be subscibed? I'm going to go through all the settings for a post hopefully in a day or two to fix things like this and the url parsing.

It is not default.

[Sovereign]

This hack is awesome! I got it working and have three easy forms for requesting forums, RPG hosting or webhosting on my site. Sooooo much better than the old "post in the forum" thing...thank you thank you!

[Abe1]

Version 2.7 -
- Fixed some issues with signatures, url parsing, and subsciptions
- Option to name the post titles
- Made template XHTML 1.0 Transitional

[RMS-Chef]

Originally Posted by Abe1

Version 2.7 -
- Fixed some issues with signatures, url parsing, and subsciptions
- Option to name the post titles
- Made template XHTML 1.0 Transitional

Not really sure about product stuff.
What would I need to do in order to upgrade with my three custom forms?

Can I just replace the code after the customizations in the plugin? Are there any required template changes?