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 initially released this hack for vB3.0 - 3.5 before I ported it to 3.6 - 3.8 outstanding work by him.

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:

1. 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.
2. If you use FTP to upload the survey directory, you might have problems with subdirectories under /survey/smarty/template_c due to the directory names with % signs. In this case, you can delete all the directories under template_c (but not the template_c directory itself). Those subdirectories will be recreated automatically when the templates are read.


Please click Install if you have installed this mod.


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

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.beta-tester.co.uk/iphone/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 3.8

Translations:-
Arabic - patch developer

[socalsoccer]

Thanks Spikeman. To be more detailed I get this error The requested URL /forum/display_answers.php was not found on this server. when I click on values.

[Webmaster961]

I seem to have run into a problem while using this survey plugin. As of right now, the survey page is just a blank, white page. That's it; nothing else.

http://www.totalgamingnetwork.com/main/survey.php

I managed to create a survey just fine and had people take it. I came back this morning and the entire page is white. Last night the survey was also saying requested questions weren't answered on pages I had already successfully completed (sending me back to those pages from a later page).

[Spinball]

Hi, I sent you a PM asking whether you would do some enhancements sooner rather than later if I paid you. Can you let me know whether this is possible, please?

[Spinball]

Bit quiet round here.
FYI I managed to do it. Survey results in a post - see the attachment.
A request and a question.

Can we specify that once the survey is complete, we can redirect to a specific URL rather than the survey home or the results?

Also is there a way to display a thank you page once the survey is complete?
I used the None question type for now, but it displays in the answers, which is not ideal.

Thanks

[Spinball]

Originally Posted by Spinball

Can we specify that once the survey is complete, we can redirect to a specific URL rather than the survey home or the results?

Found the answer to this myself. Edit the survey_survey table and enter the URL of the target page into the redirect_page field of the survey in question.
Needs to be in the Edit Survey Properties page though, otherwise if you try to save edits, there are problems.

Also the Limited HTML option doesn't seem to work for questions.

[Spikeman]

@spinball have PM you

Also is there a way to display a thank you page once the survey is complete?

Yes this is doable, standard or maybe a customised option through ACP? To be added with redirect to show results?

[Spikeman]

Originally Posted by Webmaster961

I seem to have run into a problem while using this survey plugin. As of right now, the survey page is just a blank, white page. That's it; nothing else.

http://www.totalgamingnetwork.com/main/survey.php

I managed to create a survey just fine and had people take it. I came back this morning and the entire page is white. Last night the survey was also saying requested questions weren't answered on pages I had already successfully completed (sending me back to those pages from a later page).

Is this still an issue or is it now working?

[Spinball]

Originally Posted by Spikeman

@spinball have PM you



Yes this is doable, standard or maybe a customised option through ACP? To be added with redirect to show results?

Actually you know, though we need a custom page facility for the redirect, I would still like to thank people before we get there. I am having to have a dedicated 'NONE' type question to display thanks to people before they hit the finish button. Kind of messes up the results.
I would like to have a general 'message' type question which does not get added to the results.

[tandy]

Originally Posted by andreamarucci

There's a problem with accented characters. If I insert a question using accented chars and save the question, all the question's text disappear. If I type, for example, perch? when I save the question, this text disappear, but if I type perche' everything works fine.

How can I fix this?

I have the same problem, only with french characters like ?, ? and ?.

[tandy]

Originally Posted by andreamarucci

There's a problem with accented characters. If I insert a question using accented chars and save the question, all the question's text disappear. If I type, for example, perch? when I save the question, this text disappear, but if I type perche' everything works fine.

How can I fix this?

I found the solution.
You have to edit "safestring.class.php" in the classes folder and change "utf-8" with "iso-8859-1" at lines 142 and 158.