New Posting Features - Easy Forms v4.x - Create a form or multiple forms without php or html knowledge

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)

Screenshots
There are two posts full of screenshots of this modification

• https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost....64&postcount=3
• https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost....65&postcount=4

Installation

1. Download and then extract .zip archive
2. Upload the contents of upload folder to forum root
   (Allow Overwrite "YES" for overwrite)
   clientscript\easyforms.css -> \clientscript\
   clientscript\easyforms.js -> \clientscript\
3. Import product file (product-easyforms v4.0.xml) in admincp
   AdminCP -> Plugins & Products -> Manage Products -> [Add/Import Product]
4. Change usergroups permissions at:
   AdminCP -> vBulletin Options -> Easy Form Options

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
• Human verification question
• Custom Question (can query database or do whatever you want using php and html)
• Date (month/ day/ year fields)
• Address
• Scale

Form can Submit to:

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

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
• Quiz Mode

Support this Modification

• Click 'Marked as Installed'
• Rate it 'Excellent'
• Consider a donation

[bigrover]

OK, that did get the message into forum #3, but the posting updated the forum statistics on the forums display page for both forum #2 and forum #3, including the title of the post, the user and the posting date & time stamp. Forum #2 now shows 11 threads but when you open it there are only 10. Forum #2 is the forum specified as the destination in the form itself, and it is being over-ridden to send the form to #3.

If you would like to hack around on my box to see what is going on, send me a PM.

[riskofficer]

Hello!

My database already contains 300 inputs with 10 columns each. Speed of generating new exports decreased dramticaly, but im planning that database will be thousends of inputs for next few years. Is there any solves of such problem? May be prepare export file not on demand but by schedule?

[bananalive]

Originally Posted by bigrover

OK, that did get the message into forum #3, but the posting updated the forum statistics on the forums display page for both forum #2 and forum #3, including the title of the post, the user and the posting date & time stamp. Forum #2 now shows 11 threads but when you open it there are only 10. Forum #2 is the forum specified as the destination in the form itself, and it is being over-ridden to send the form to #3.

If you would like to hack around on my box to see what is going on, send me a PM.

Try this:

PHP Code:

$form['forumid'] = 3;  
if ($forumid = $form['forumid'])
{
    $foruminfo = verify_id('forum', $forumid, 0, 1);
    $forumperms = fetch_permissions($forumid);
} 


$foruminfo is used later in the script to rebuild thread counters.

[bananalive]

Originally Posted by riskofficer

Hello!

My database already contains 300 inputs with 10 columns each. Speed of generating new exports decreased dramticaly, but im planning that database will be thousends of inputs for next few years. Is there any solves of such problem? May be prepare export file not on demand but by schedule?

Are your inputs containing bb code which needs to be parsed?

If they are not, then you could stop the bbcode parsing, which should speed up process.

[riskofficer]

Originally Posted by bananalive

Are your inputs containing bb code which needs to be parsed?

If they are not, then you could stop the bbcode parsing, which should speed up process.

Hmm, how can I stop bbcode parsing for easyforms?

The problem is, even "Form Results" where I can edit database, generating too long, and each new entry making this time longer. May be split on pages "Form Results" and @From Results table".

But "Form results Poll" and "Export to Excel" will still generating too long and hang up server.

May be option "ondemand-real-time/schedule" is better?

[Willy T]

Hey Bananalive- this is about my 3-4th request without a single reply so I guess I need to keep trying.

Can you please assist with making

Usergroups Allowed to Edit Forms
Usergroups allowed to add/edit/delete forms (Permission to view Form List is recommended for these usergroups)

each on their own line? I want usergroups to be able to CREATE forms but not delete everyone's in the event someone get's angry. They can request deletion by a moderator.

Greatly appreciate the help.

[joeman]

Hey banana I tried adding this to my 4.0.6 and it seems like a great plugin but when I try to click on it from a tab from an addition tab plugin, I get an error code that says:

(Message)
"Error, this form does not exist."

Do you have any idea why it says I'm getting an error that the form I made doesn't exist or have you seen that problem before?

Thanks

[bchertov]

This looks like a great idea, but I've got no idea how this works!
Is there a help file or tutorial or fully explained example someplace?

[bigrover]

The code you posted below worked. Now I need to figure out how to store the current forum when the form is called, then apply it in this script. I'm going to do some looking for a variable that may contain this information, then figure out how to store it and retrieve it when needed. If anyone has any suggestions I would greatly appreciate it.

I do have to say I really like this script, particularly the ability to format the output as desired with conditional statements based on the form data. It works great. Thanks Bananalive, good work.

Bchertov, I managed to figure this out mainly by reading through all the pages of this thread, then installing it on a development site and just hacking out a form and watching what happened.

Originally Posted by bananalive

Try this:

PHP Code:

$form['forumid'] = 3;  
if ($forumid = $form['forumid'])
{
    $foruminfo = verify_id('forum', $forumid, 0, 1);
    $forumperms = fetch_permissions($forumid);
} 


$foruminfo is used later in the script to rebuild thread counters.

[laric]

Originally Posted by laric

I love this mod.
I have a weird usage for it perhaps.

I am using it for guild applications for our gaming guild.

Thus I need the full form posted to the officers forum. (Works just fine)

Then I need a subset of the form posted to the 'highend' members forum.

How would I go about to do that?

I am somewhat familiar with php but not very familiar with the vb structure of the code.

I guess I need a hook/plugin somewhere?

Bananalive. Any chance that you could help me with this one. This is the last part I need before I can move from my old SMF forum over to my new VB forum.