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Forms Hack · **Released**: 08-09-2005

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.

upnorth · #**902** 05-31-2006, 04:10 PM

yep. Before I added the second one it was do=form and that worked. Once I added the second one, neither do=form or do=different_form would work. As soon as I deactivate the second plugin for the different_form then the original do=form will work again????

clear as mud?

Abe1 · #**903** 05-31-2006, 04:26 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by upnorth

yep. Before I added the second one it was do=form and that worked. Once I added the second one, neither do=form or do=different_form would work. As soon as I deactivate the second plugin for the different_form then the original do=form will work again????

clear as mud?

You should be able to run 2 at the same time. I dont know why that would be happening.

upnorth · #**904** 05-31-2006, 05:25 PM

hmm I'll do some more playing around and see what I can figure out. If that doesn't work I guess I'll start from scratch and document the steps. That way maybe I can provide you more info to go on?

Abe1 · #**905** 05-31-2006, 06:29 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by upnorth

hmm I'll do some more playing around and see what I can figure out. If that doesn't work I guess I'll start from scratch and document the steps. That way maybe I can provide you more info to go on?

Send me and email bigware at gmail dot com with both product XMLs. I'll see if I can compare them and see the problem.

Abe1 · #**906** 05-31-2006, 09:15 PM

Version 3.5: (05/31/2006)

[ADDED] Check boxes.

I will now create forms for who-ever wants me to. I have created something that will generate a form. You would give me the settings and questions you want and I will give you the file you need to upload so you will have a form for your site. This thing I created has some better features then the hack I distribute. Once you get the form, if you want to make any changes, you would be able to do it in the template. All the questions and descriptions are added directly into the template and are not located in the plug-in.

Here are some of the features that are included: (ones with stars are not in the regular version)

As many forms as you would like. Each form you want to make will not over write another one.
* Ban Certain Usergroups (can?t be used with allow)
Allow Certain Usergroups (can?t be used with ban)
Post form as a new thread
* Option to place the form in different forumIDs based on the URL. You would include ?&f=x? in the URL of the form.
* If using the URL to get forumID, will check to make sure you have it in the URL. Will give error if you don?t.
Option to add a poll to the new thread.
Add any options you want to the poll.
Option to make the poll public.
Post form as reply to existing thread
Send form as PM.
Send PM to many users
Send form as Email
* Send email to many emails
5 different redirect options after you user clicks ?submit?.
Edit Redirect message
Edit Title/Subject for the submitted form. You can put the user?s username or other info.

Please PM me for more info. Include your email address so I can send you all the info you need.

SecTa · #**907** 05-31-2006, 09:47 PM

Wow! Thanks for the update!
"Option to place the form in different forumIDs based on the URL" will be really helpful for me!

Small question: if user press "Edit" button, will he get to the template or it will be regular editor window?

Abe1 · #**908** 05-31-2006, 09:49 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by SecTa

Wow! Thanks for the update!
"Option to place the form in different forumIDs based on the URL" will be really helpful for me!

Small question: if user press "Edit" button, will he get to the template or it will be regular editor window?

When will he press edit?

jugo · #**909** 05-31-2006, 11:27 PM

Can we get the form creator tool????

THAT would be useful .....

Abe1 · #**910** 05-31-2006, 11:36 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by jugo

Can we get the form creator tool????

THAT would be useful .....

Sorry, it will not be released.

FLMom · #**911** 06-01-2006, 03:10 AM

just pm'd you

Thanks for your hard work on this

mastersite · #**912** 06-01-2006, 08:54 AM

ive pmd you Abe1

serhat_kk · #**913** 06-01-2006, 09:36 PM

Thanks for your help Abe1.
How do i remove WYSIWYG editor ?

MrWee · #**914** 06-02-2006, 05:40 PM

I love this hack!! Ever since I first saw this hack for 3.0, I've wanted to find a way to implement it.

So on my board, we recently installed it and are using it as an "incident report" form that the mods fill out whenever there is a warning or a ban of a user.

The hardest part is getting them to remember to fill it out, so I wonder if someone could help me figure out what to change so that the "ban conformation" screen (the one that says "usera has been banned for 1 week") redirect to this form, instead of to the ban list.

Also, I would like it to include the user name of the person that was just banned in the request string, so it is auto filled in the correct field.

(I already edited the plugin to do this, so newthread.php?do=user_report&uname=foobar puts foobar in the field name of the user being reported.)

I don't know if there would be another hook I could use, or if I would have to edit the php files myself, either is fine.

I know this sounds complicated, but if some one could just point me to where I should look at the code, I can probably figure it out!

Thanks in advance!

mrgrimes · #**915** 06-05-2006, 12:45 PM

Hi. I want the emailed version of the answer template to include stuff not shown in the newly created thread. How do I do this?

Abe1 · #**916** 06-05-2006, 01:04 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by mrgrimes

Hi. I want the emailed version of the answer template to include stuff not shown in the newly created thread. How do I do this?

Not simple. You have to make 2 answer templates and you have to duplicate some things in the plug-in.

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