Major Additions - vB Survey: Add a full-featured survey tool to your forum

What this hack does:

This hack will add a full featured survey application system to your forum. You can survey your members opinions on various topics, or allow usergroups to create their own surveys.

Credits: John W. Holmes: Author of UCCASS Survey.
tamarian: Who originally made this a vB hack for vB 3.5

Application Features: See the UCCASS site for full details.

http://www.bigredspark.com/survey.html

The UCCASS offers some advanced features such as branching conditionals (allows hiding/displaying questions based on specific answers), result filtrations and much more.

Integration features:
Replaced authentication with VB's user database
Set permissions per usergroup, for admin/edit/create/take and view results priviliges.
Replaced config files with vB admin settings
Applied vB style to the UCCASS templates (it uses Smarty)

vB Survey added features: (some will be ported back to UCCASS)
Added anonymity option. If a survey is not anonymous, members can see how other members answered.
Added Hide/unhide survey option. This is useful to send surveys to specific users or usergroups.
Added Date answer types (D), with dropdown lists for day, month, year to ensure correct date entry.
Added REGEX control for new answer types, to control the answer format.
Added size control for single like text answers and REGEX answers.

Liscense: The original UCCASS Survey application is released under a modified GPL Liscense (Aferro GPL) : http://www.bigredspark.com/survey/license.txt (or look under the /docs directory in the zip file)

Installation difficulty:
2 mins, all done via product file.

Installation:

* Unpack the included file
* Copy survey.php to your main forum directory
* Copy the survey directory into your forum directory (cannot change the directory name)
* Install the Product-Survey.xml
* The product file will also install all data for the 2 default surveys to get you started.
* Go to AdminCP => vBulletin Options => Survey System Options - and set the options for access and other settings
* If you get permission errors, change file permissions for the survey directory and its contents to 744, and the owner/group to apache:apache (or, some servers are setup to nobody:nobody):

cd /path/to/main/forum

chown -R apache:apache survey

chmod -R 744 survey

Notes:

The "do not remove" comment on the copyright link in the footer is from the original UCCASS footer template. You may contact the original author, John W. Holmes, for permission to remove the copyright notice, he's willing to talk according to their support forum.

Please click Install if you have installed this mod.

I personally do not claim credit for this hack, however this is what I have done to port over to 3.6.3 :-

1. All tables, templates, phrases etc are installed via product file.
2. Support for wol has been added.
3. Some bugs fixed with the UCCASS system

This hack is for 3.6.3 not 3.5, the 3.5 version can be seen and downloaded here this will not upgrade the 3.5 version.

I did obtain the permission from tamarian to port this to 3.6.

This is my first big hack here so I would grateful if you did click Install if you use it. Remember you only get notified of updates if you Install

Demo Here :- http://www.internetwatchers.co.uk/forums/survey.php please note the Demo may have restrictions as it is a live board. You may or may not be able to test the survey as a guest, this will not affect your sites as generally why would you want guests taking a survey on your site, you would never get a true survey result, I have only enabled this on my board so as to get the ball rolling and you guys can see it. you should all be able to see results page though.

If you have the older 3.5 Hack installed you MUST uninstall that before installing 3.6.3

vB Survey for vB 3.0 version by tamarian
vB Survey for vB 3.5 version by tamarian

[dutchbb]

Hello,

I have translated about 90% of the hack, just wanted to know where this red sentence can be found? I could only find the variable.



thank you

[gedsta]

Installed

However whenever I take a survey and click on finish or view a survey's results i get

Error retrieving questions: Table 'nameofdatabse_.vb1_survey_results_text' doesn't exist

any ideas?

tia

[Spikeman]

Originally Posted by dutchbb

Hello,

I have translated about 90% of the hack, just wanted to know where this red sentence can be found? I could only find the variable.



thank you

You will find the line in survey.class.php within survey/classes line 211, you will find quite a few phrases in there that you may want to translate that you have not been shown yet. Actually all the classes files will need to be translated

[Spikeman]

Originally Posted by gedsta

Installed

However whenever I take a survey and click on finish or view a survey's results i get

Error retrieving questions: Table 'nameofdatabse_.vb1_survey_results_text' doesn't exist

any ideas?

tia

Have you checked to see if that table is in your db?

[dutchbb]

Originally Posted by Spikeman

You will find the line in survey.class.php within survey/classes line 211, you will find quite a few phrases in there that you may want to translate that you have not been shown yet. Actually all the classes files will need to be translated

Thanks

[gedsta]

Originally Posted by Spikeman

Have you checked to see if that table is in your db?

Table 'nameofdatabse_.vb1_survey_results is but not Table 'nameofdatabse_.vb1_survey_results.txt or whatever it says

Am at a loss now, as I followed the instructions completely

[gedsta]

Thank you Gareth for sorting it out - it works perfect now

[Spikeman]

Originally Posted by gedsta

Thank you Gareth for sorting it out - it works perfect now

[Resolved] The database would not accept the survey_results_text table, this may/may not be a result of the windows server mysql was running on, table was manually imported with changes through phpmyadmin. A fix should be ready in next update of the product-survey.xml

[morrow]

Installed with No problems other than permissioning which was noted in the install doc. Once changed, everything is good.

Now, how about a few sample surveys so I can get an idea of what the hell I'm going to use this for! It seams to be a nice hack and I'm sure I'll find a spot on my site for it. I just need some ideas.

[Spikeman]

Originally Posted by morrow

Now, how about a few sample surveys so I can get an idea of what the hell I'm going to use this for! It seams to be a nice hack and I'm sure I'll find a spot on my site for it. I just need some ideas.

Folllowing a quick visit to your homepage:

How about a survey on fishing equipment used, how many fishing trips per year, how far do you travel to fish, best times to fish, quantity caught, places, equipment etc..