Competitions

Description
Adds a competition module to your forums. You can create as many competitions and allow members to participate in them.

Features

• Ability to force participants to fill certain custom profile fields
• Send Private Message to members who participate in the competitions
• Ability to allow more than one entry from a participant
• Input field for answers can be either a textbox, a textarea, radio buttons or a drop-down menu
• If the input type is radio buttons or a drop-down menu, the system can filter out wrong answers and generate a list of winners by picking random participants
• Schedule competitions by setting the starting date (user contributed)
• Very customizable

Installation

1. Upload all necessary files to their respective directories.
2. Install the product XML file.
3. Edit the navbar template to add a link to competitions.php page. (see below)
4. Set necessary permissions for each usergroup to access and/or participate in competitions.
5. Edit the "hkc_nopermission_loggedin" and "hkc_winner_congratulate_message" phrase to customize to your taste.

Upgrade

1. Upload all necessary files to their respective directories.
2. Install the product XML file. Be sure to set "Allow Overwrite" to Yes.

Editing the navbar template

1. Open the navbar template

2. Find:

<td class="vbmenu_control"><a href="calendar.php$session[sessionurl_q]">$vbphrase[calendar]</a></td>

3. Add after:

<td class="vbmenu_control"><a href="competitions.php$session[sessionurl_q]">$vbphrase[hkc_competitions]</a></td>

4. Save template

Author Notes
This extension was developed specifically for my website but I am releasing the code since a few members here have have shown interest. I cannot state that it is totally free of bugs. I would appreciate your feedback in making this extension better.

Maybe in Future
At the moment, the question is only restricted to one per competition. I would like to have the ability to add more than one question per competition.

[VaaKo]

is there a way to show the entries within the competition page?
I mean is there a way to add a link "View Entries" to be able who posted what?

[husain]

Originally Posted by Don Corleone

is there a way to show the entries within the competition page?
I mean is there a way to add a link "View Entries" to be able who posted what?

I am afraid there isn't such a feature. Wouldn't such a feature defeat the purpose of a competition? Why should someone be able to view entries submitted by other users?

[VaaKo]

well I have this competition on my board, where users comment on a certain picture and upon their comments they win points (ucash)
we have now a thread for this competition, but I would like to integrate it with the competitions hack... so i need to show all the entries for all the users

[sensimilla]

great hack thanks

[Holidazed]

Originally Posted by bitg

I installed this mod and it seems to be working properly as long as I am using internet explorer. When I goto my site in Firefox, none of the dhtml drop down menus work and the shoutbox does not load and various other java functions do not work.

When I disable this product, all is working again.

Any ideas on this?

[Lyricsmama]

Nice hack, thank you very much.
I would love it if you do enable more than one question per competition.

Suggestion: is it possible to have the Thank you for Participating PM sent only once, even if a competition allows more than one entry per member?

[husain]

Originally Posted by bitg

Any ideas on this?

No ideas, unfortunately. I haven't been able to reproduce this behaviour on any installations of the forums. Are you running a vanilla install of vB3.5 or is it upgraded? Any other extensions you have installed?

[husain]

Originally Posted by Lyricsmama

Suggestion: is it possible to have the Thank you for Participating PM sent only once, even if a competition allows more than one entry per member?

Hmmm. Never gave a though to that. I will add this to my list of things to do.

[mrahul]

how to edit the text which is produced as a pm to the winners throogh pm ?

[husain]

Originally Posted by mrahul

how to edit the text which is produced as a pm to the winners throogh pm ?

They are all phrases. All phrases used in this hack start with hkc_ so if you do a search for phrase names that contain this string, you will get them.