Forms Hack

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.

[Abe1]

Originally Posted by LucasG

How can I make all questions apper on form? http://www.l2prodigy.com/forum/newthread.php?do=form
wanna make it like this: http://www.l2-paradise.com/forums/newthread.php?do=form

You have to remove the code from the template.

[welo]

Dunno if you're still taking suggestions but I thought of something that would be a nice little inclusion for this. It would be extremely helpful if we were able to determine which form fields were posted and which were emailed.

This way, for instance, people could submit a form that contains their wishlist and address while only the wishlist gets posted to the forum. The address - which must remain private - would then be sent to the admin. Naturally you'd want options where the content of a field could be either posted, emailed, or both.

Apologies if this has already been mentioned or the ability already exists.

[Lucas]

Originally Posted by Abe1

You have to remove the code from the template.

What code from which template?

[Abe1]

Originally Posted by LucasG

What code from which template?

called 'form'

[Abe1]

Originally Posted by welo

Dunno if you're still taking suggestions but I thought of something that would be a nice little inclusion for this. It would be extremely helpful if we were able to determine which form fields were posted and which were emailed.

This way, for instance, people could submit a form that contains their wishlist and address while only the wishlist gets posted to the forum. The address - which must remain private - would then be sent to the admin. Naturally you'd want options where the content of a field could be either posted, emailed, or both.

Apologies if this has already been mentioned or the ability already exists.

It's possable if you make a new answer template and make a little coding changes. I can't explain right now.

[Bounce]

Hi Abe

Nice work
however lol

I'm trying to remove a few of the options ..

I edit out the $ of what i want to edit out

////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
//VARIABLES
//Study how variables are add here to add or remove any. If you add a variable to your form, you must add it to part one and part two.
////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////

// Part 1
$vbulletin->input->clean_array_gpc('p', array(
'normalanswer1' => TYPE_STR,
'longanswer1' => TYPE_STR
));

// Part 2
$normalanswer1 = $vbulletin->GPC['normalanswer1'];
$longanswer1 = $vbulletin->GPC['longanswer1'];

It removes the text but not the input fields

I only want 3 options for the form, how do i remove the input fields and the buttons?

Screenshot

http://www.mcdanieldigital.com/comun...mages/form.jpg

I created the new plugin as per the instructions in the original plugin

Do I also remove the actual radio Box itself ?

////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
//RADIO BOX CHOICES : QUESTION 2 (do not use quotation marks or you will get a parse error, besides the quotes around the whole text)
////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////

$radioquestion2 = "Choose another one of the following choices";

// The following choices must NOT have quotation marks
$radiochoice2a = "good";
$radiochoice2b = "bad";
$radiochoice2c = "both";

////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////

[Abe1]

Originally Posted by hIBEES

Hi Abe

Nice work
however lol

I'm trying to remove a few of the options ..

I edit out the $ of what i want to edit out

////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
//VARIABLES
//Study how variables are add here to add or remove any. If you add a variable to your form, you must add it to part one and part two.
////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////

// Part 1
$vbulletin->input->clean_array_gpc('p', array(
'normalanswer1' => TYPE_STR,
'longanswer1' => TYPE_STR
));

// Part 2
$normalanswer1 = $vbulletin->GPC['normalanswer1'];
$longanswer1 = $vbulletin->GPC['longanswer1'];

It removes the text but not the input fields

I anly want 3 options for the form, how do i remove the input fields and the buttons?

Screenshot

http://www.mcdanieldigital.com/comun...mages/form.jpg

I created the new plugin as per the instructions in the original plugin

You have to remove the imput fields from the template.

[Bounce]

Originally Posted by Abe1

You have to remove the imput fields from the template.

just just thought of that and edited my post

I shall go try

[Bounce]

Ahhh I see now ... you need to edit out the stuff below the lines that say do not touch unless you know what you are doing lol

Correct? Below an example

 if ($answerall == "1")
    {
        if ($normalanswer1 == '' OR $radioanswer1 == '' OR $radioanswer2 == '' OR $radioanswer3 == '' OR $answer1 == '' OR $answer2 == '' OR $answer3 == '' OR $longanswer1 == '')
        {

[Abe1]

Originally Posted by hIBEES

Ahhh I see now ... you need to edit out the stuff below the lines that say do not touch unless you know what you are doing lol

Correct? Below an example

 if ($answerall == "1")
    {
        if ($normalanswer1 == '' OR $radioanswer1 == '' OR $radioanswer2 == '' OR $radioanswer3 == '' OR $answer1 == '' OR $answer2 == '' OR $answer3 == '' OR $longanswer1 == '')
        {

Edit that if you change a field.