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tamarian: Who originally made this a vB hack for vB 3.5

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:

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.

Please click Install if you have installed this mod.

I personally do not claim credit for this hack, however this is what I have done to port over to 3.6.3 :-

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

This hack is for 3.6.3 not 3.5, the 3.5 version can be seen and downloaded here this will not upgrade the 3.5 version.

I did obtain the permission from tamarian to port this to 3.6.

This is my first big hack here so 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.internetwatchers.co.uk/forums/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 3.6.3

vB Survey for vB 3.0 version by tamarian
vB Survey for vB 3.5 version by tamarian

[Martin-TMGRS]

I installed this hack but when I click on any of the examples, the page just reloads to the same page also does the same when I try to create a new survey or edit any of them. Any help would be great, thanks.

[Spikeman]

Originally Posted by nanaimobar

Installation went smoothly, hooks and vBulletin Options updated perfectly, but admincp shows no changes and no vbSurvey section is visible anywhere.

Suggestions?

ACP -> vBulletin Options -> Survey System Options. Does not exist?

Originally Posted by Martin-TMGRS

I installed this hack but when I click on any of the examples, the page just reloads to the same page also does the same when I try to create a new survey or edit any of them. Any help would be great, thanks.

Did you set the correct permissions?

[nanaimobar]

[QUOTE=Spikeman;1136227]ACP -> vBulletin Options -> Survey System Options. Does not exist?

Survey System Options exists and everything was left at default setting.

What is missing is any ability to create a Survey or other settings in the far left scroll column where RSS feeds, Styles and Templates, vBulletion Options, Plugins & Products, etc are located.

[Biggles]

[QUOTE=nanaimobar;1136365]

Originally Posted by Spikeman

ACP -> vBulletin Options -> Survey System Options. Does not exist?

Survey System Options exists and everything was left at default setting.

What is missing is any ability to create a Survey or other settings in the far left scroll column where RSS feeds, Styles and Templates, vBulletion Options, Plugins & Products, etc are located.

Yes indeed. I have experienced precisely the same problem.

Everything went smoothly in the uploads and the product import. I have Survey Systems Options too and have set the necessary fields to allow Admin (usergroup 6) to create a survey.

But, like nanaimobar, I cannot find a function anywhere that actually allows me to create the survey. Where is it supposed to show up? Should it be in the ACP list or is it within threads or elsewhere in the forums.? I've looked everywhere I can think of and can't find a darned thing.

Biggles

[Spikeman]

[QUOTE=nanaimobar;1136365]

Originally Posted by Spikeman

ACP -> vBulletin Options -> Survey System Options. Does not exist?

Survey System Options exists and everything was left at default setting.

What is missing is any ability to create a Survey or other settings in the far left scroll column where RSS feeds, Styles and Templates, vBulletion Options, Plugins & Products, etc are located.

[QUOTE=Biggles;1136450]

Originally Posted by nanaimobar

Yes indeed. I have experienced precisely the same problem.

Everything went smoothly in the uploads and the product import. I have Survey Systems Options too and have set the necessary fields to allow Admin (usergroup 6) to create a survey.

But, like nanaimobar, I cannot find a function anywhere that actually allows me to create the survey. Where is it supposed to show up? Should it be in the ACP list or is it within threads or elsewhere in the forums.? I've looked everywhere I can think of and can't find a darned thing.

Biggles

Go to the location of survey.php example http://www.yourdomain.com/forums/survey.php at the bottom of the survey page you should have a create new survey function. If you do not have this then you need to ensure you have added your usergroup to the Survey System Options in ACP. There are no other seetings within the ACP except for the Survey System Options.

[nanaimobar]

[QUOTE=Spikeman;1136474][QUOTE=nanaimobar;1136365]

Originally Posted by Biggles

Go to the location of survey.php example http://www.yourdomain.com/forums/survey.php at the bottom of the survey page you should have a create new survey function. If you do not have this then you need to ensure you have added your usergroup to the Survey System Options in ACP. There are no other seetings within the ACP except for the Survey System Options.

Thanks, Spikeman. Survey create section now appears, but there is an error message:
Warning: Smarty error: problem writing './survey/smarty/templates_c/Default^available_surveys.tpl.' in /survey/smarty/Smarty.class.php on line 589

[Spikeman]

[QUOTE=nanaimobar;1136484][QUOTE=Spikeman;1136474]

Originally Posted by nanaimobar

Thanks, Spikeman. Survey create section now appears, but there is an error message:
Warning: Smarty error: problem writing './survey/smarty/templates_c/Default^available_surveys.tpl.' in /survey/smarty/Smarty.class.php on line 589

You need to set your server permissions

[nanaimobar]

[QUOTE=Spikeman;1136511][QUOTE=nanaimobar;1136484]

Originally Posted by Spikeman

You need to set your server permissions

Thanks, Spikeman. Deleted directories under template_c and all is well. Thanks as well for your quick help and this great product.

[Spikeman]

[QUOTE=nanaimobar;1136537][QUOTE=Spikeman;1136511]

Originally Posted by nanaimobar

Thanks, Spikeman. Deleted directories under template_c and all is well. Thanks as well for your quick help and this great product.

you are welcome, hit the install link as you are still showing as not installed

[nanaimobar]

Originally Posted by Spikeman

Fantastic please hit that install button.

Installed button hit now. Was checking out the program and getting to understand all of its parts, which look fantastic.