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.

[Snake]

Thanks!

/me clicks install

[Puntoboy]

Originally Posted by Puntoboy

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

can't get this to work, its not displaying correctly and i've set it so it emails me the completed for but thats blank when i recieve it.

[sully02]

Originally Posted by Puntoboy

can't get this to work, its not displaying correctly and i've set it so it emails me the completed for but thats blank when i recieve it.

I believe I still have your file saved. I'll take another look at it once I leave work tonight.

[Puntoboy]

smashing, thanks for your help.

[wolfstream]

This looks good, like just what I've been looking for, actually. A couple of questions/ problems though.
Firstly:
I'm trying to get the form data to parse a very simple url, like:
http://www.domain.com/newthread.php?...&review=myhost
The idea is to have that last bit be part of the title itself. Code changed for this:

$formtitle = "Generic Form for $review";

which simply returns
Forumname : Generic form for
Am I missing something here? Do I need to add something to parse the review bit?

Secondly, can this parse sql queries directly? Instead of handing them off to a forum, what I'm looking to do is add them to a db of reviews which will then be approved by an admin, and viewed by the end user, not in a forum as it were.

[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

Thanks guys for lots of halp.

[pipin]

Originally Posted by Abe1

It looks like your camparing it to a category and not another thread.

hm? i wanted to point out, that the last post is not updated in the upper category. The image is mixed from 2 views: bottom the threadview in the category mainboards and top the allforumview. last post isnt the same there.

[keroberos]

any idea why users on IE post a APP it doesnt work, but firefox it does?

[Gripemaster]

*Clicks Install*

Thank you! EXCELLENT hack!

My only question, being somewhat new to this, how exactly do I go about doing a second form? How is it created to differ from the first one?

[onkel.joi]

Does anybody knows how to make second botton next to New Thread that would make make forms? I am already installed Edit New Thread Addon but I want to keep that New Thread botton just in case if someone whats the regular way to may thread.
Any help?