New Posting Features - Easy Forms - Create a form or multiple forms without php or html knowledge

EASY FORMS FOR vB 4.x here

Easily create forms with no HTML or PHP knowledge. Questions can be made compulsory and are checked before the form is submitted. Forms can be previewed. (You can create multiple forms)

Backwards compatible with vb v3.7.x and 3.6.8

Example Form | Help File | Version History

Question Types:

• Single line text
• Multi-line text
• Multi-select checkboxes
• Single-select radio buttons
• Single Select Dropdown
• Yes/No
• Multi-line text field using vbeditor (max one per form - limited by vB)
• Human verification question
• Custom Question (can query database or do whatever you want)
• Date (month/ day/ year fields)

Form can Submit to:

• new thread in forum
• new post in thread
• new pm to user
• email address
• save to database

Installation:

• Just Import the Product File
• Set usergroups options
  admincp -> vboptions -> Easy Form Options
• View/Create forms at
  http://your-forum.com/forums/misc.php?do=forms
• Click installed to get latest updates

More Features:

• Form list categories (optional)
• Preview form (can disable for individual forms)
• Optional questions
• Form Sections
• Prefix support - you can choose which prefix you want thread to have
• Different thread/pm title to form title with variables {username} {userid} and {q_1} (replacing 1 with appropriate question number)
• Poll Options: Multiple choice, public vote, poll question, poll options, poll timeout
• Regular expression match for single line text input field
• Usergroup permissions per form
• Forumid/threadid/username can be specified by input via {value=X} in dropdown, single line input or radio buttons
• Multiple dropdown select for form usergroup permissions (still optional - leave blank to not use)
• Option to show link to form list in navbar and quick links (separate options)
• Import/ Export your forms as XML files - great for transferring forms across forums or creating backups
• Specify bbcode for questions/ answers/ sections for the form's output
• Form Hooks: (uses php code)
  1. Before form submitted
     Useful for: your own form validation, multiple form outputs, etc.
  2. At form start
     Useful for: banning userids/usergroups from form, setting minimum post count,etc.
• Attachments allowed for posting new thread
• Mass Copy Forms & their questions

Coming soon:

• Allow attachments for posting in thread

Translations:

• French/ Fran?aise http://www.vbulletin-ressources.com/...apides-t14717/

[cookiepants]

Originally Posted by bananalive

'Poll:' is from vbulletin as thread is a poll.

Import attached file and add to form hook: before submit

PHP Code:

$closed = true; 


Will that remove or delete previous posts using this hack?

[SnowBot]

Originally Posted by lazyseller

It be nice if someone could come up with some a form pack. Im not volunteering!

I would even pay a little for it

[bananalive]

Originally Posted by cookiepants

Will that remove or delete previous posts using this hack?

no, only new posts are created.

[bananalive]

Originally Posted by Trek

Ok, I'm finally redoing my old form and I have to say... this really is easy! Nice work!

I've found one bug though (no idea if it's been reported already or not, too much to sort through in this thread.)

Anyway, if you don't end your form question with a ? it will automatically add a : to the end of your sentence, even if you don't want it. Not a big deal, but a little annoying to assume what I want.

Anyway, excellent work!

That was intention.

Find

PHP Code:

$formbit['question'] = $formbit['question'] . ":"; 


Replace

PHP Code:

/*$formbit['question'] = $formbit['question'] . ":";*/ 


[Gizmo999]

is it possible to change the date formatting on question and output to D/M/Y not M/D/Y?

[frogster]

Originally Posted by bananalive

Is this for all posts, or just ones created with Easy Forms?

Just saw you had replied...It happens for any post BUT it didn't happen before I installed your update for the moderated posts issue...not sure what happened.

Thanks.

[Gizmo999]

I've got a problem where the recipient of hte email sent is getting blank emails, the PM works fine, database stores the record and if I set the email to me I see it but the person I need to can't. I'm not sure but I think it might be because the form output starts each line with an * and this seems to make the content invisible, is tere anyway to alter the character used?

its really useful to have that character before and after the question as I'm using them as delimiters to allow data import into excel, previous to this update I had to start each question with my delimiter and end each question with my delimiter.

[bananalive]

Originally Posted by Gizmo999

is it possible to change the date formatting on question and output to D/M/Y not M/D/Y?

Edit template: form_formbit_date

<tr>
              <td class="smallfont" style="vertical-align: top; font-weight: bold;">$formbit[question]
			  <if condition="$formbit[description]!=''"><br /><i><span style="font-weight: normal;">$formbit[description]</span></i></if><if condition="$iqs && in_array($formbit[id], $iqs)"><br />$vbphrase[empty_field]</if><if condition="$formbit[inputerror]"><br />$formbit[inputerror]</if></td>
			  <td class="smallfont">
			<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="3">
			<tbody><tr>
				<td>
					<input class="bginput" style="font-size: 11px;" name="$formbit[id][day]" value="$formbit[day]" size="3" maxlength="2" title="$vbphrase[day]" tabindex="1" type="text">
					<select name="$formbit[id][month]" title="$vbphrase[month]" tabindex="1">
						<option value="1" <if condition="$formbit[month] == 1">selected="selected"</if>>$vbphrase[january]</option>
						<option value="2" <if condition="$formbit[month] == 2">selected="selected"</if>>$vbphrase[february]</option>
						<option value="3" <if condition="$formbit[month] == 3">selected="selected"</if>>$vbphrase[march]</option>
						<option value="4" <if condition="$formbit[month] == 4">selected="selected"</if>>$vbphrase[april]</option>
						<option value="5" <if condition="$formbit[month] == 5">selected="selected"</if>>$vbphrase[may]</option>
						<option value="6" <if condition="$formbit[month] == 6">selected="selected"</if>>$vbphrase[june]</option>
						<option value="7" <if condition="$formbit[month] == 7">selected="selected"</if>>$vbphrase[july]</option>
						<option value="8" <if condition="$formbit[month] == 8">selected="selected"</if>>$vbphrase[august]</option>
						<option value="9" <if condition="$formbit[month] == 9">selected="selected"</if>>$vbphrase[september]</option>
						<option value="10" <if condition="$formbit[month] == 10">selected="selected"</if>>$vbphrase[october]</option>
						<option value="11" <if condition="$formbit[month] == 11">selected="selected"</if>>$vbphrase[november]</option>
						<option value="12" <if condition="$formbit[month] == 12">selected="selected"</if>>$vbphrase[december]</option>
					</select>
					<input class="bginput" style="font-size: 11px;" name="$formbit[id][year]" value="$formbit[year]" size="5" maxlength="4" title="$vbphrase[year]" tabindex="1" type="text">
				</td>
			</tr>
			</tbody></table>
			  </td>
            </tr>

[bananalive]

Originally Posted by frogster

Just saw you had replied...It happens for any post BUT it didn't happen before I installed your update for the moderated posts issue...not sure what happened.

Thanks.

Odd, the script only runs on misc.php pages

Try disabling Easy Forms and see if you still get the problem.

[bananalive]

Originally Posted by Gizmo999

I've got a problem where the recipient of hte email sent is getting blank emails, the PM works fine, database stores the record and if I set the email to me I see it but the person I need to can't. I'm not sure but I think it might be because the form output starts each line with an * and this seems to make the content invisible, is tere anyway to alter the character used?

its really useful to have that character before and after the question as I'm using them as delimiters to allow data import into excel, previous to this update I had to start each question with my delimiter and end each question with my delimiter.

bold bbcode tags get replaced with asterisks by vbulletin's plain bbcode parser. so if you remove all the [b] bbcode then you won't get any asterisks interfering