New Posting Features - Form Hack

Form Hack 4.1

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
• 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
• Upload attachments

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 4.0: (09/15/2006)

• Ported over for vb3.6
• Send to multiple emails.
• Send multiple PMs.
• Parse emails for BBCode
• And finally, ATTACHMENTS!

Version 4.1: (04/24/2008)

• Fixed for vb 3.6.10
• Small bug fixed.
• List of the 2 quick edits are in the zip file so you don't have to start making a form from scratch.

MAKE SURE YOU CLICK INSTALL!
You will get an email when a new version is released.

Abe1 with rights from Dr Erwin Loh

[z0diac]

Ok nevermind. Looks like I have to go into config and start editing code to change forms. ('thought it was a plugin that would give forum members the option of creating their own forms when creating a new thread - just like a poll almost). Oh well, thanks anyway.

[sweede]

I don't suppose anyone has taken this mod and changed it so that instead of creating a reply to an existing thread, it adds the text of the submited form to the begining or end of an existing thread ?

[attroll]

Originally Posted by sweede

I don't suppose anyone has taken this mod and changed it so that instead of creating a reply to an existing thread, it adds the text of the submited form to the begining or end of an existing thread ?

I think it can be done by changing this section in you plugin but I am not sure.

//ENABLE FORM TO REPLY TO EXISTING THREAD - 1 = yes, 0 = no
$formreply = "0";
//EXISTING THREAD ID FOR FORM TO REPLY IN
$formreplythreadid = "12345";

[nothing4me]

Originally Posted by nothing4me

Is there a way to require attachments? Like force a user to upload one?

Anyone?

[sweede]

Originally Posted by attroll

I think it can be done by changing this section in you plugin but I am not sure.

//ENABLE FORM TO REPLY TO EXISTING THREAD - 1 = yes, 0 = no
$formreply = "0";
//EXISTING THREAD ID FOR FORM TO REPLY IN
$formreplythreadid = "12345";

Not quite. i don't want to add a new post to a thread. I want to have a post with some text

- This is the text -

and someone uses the form and in the form they enter "more text" , it updates the post and it now looks like

- This is the text -
more text

and so on.

[MikeH2911]

Ok, I love this hack, tried searching the thread but no joy in finding the answer to this question.

I've got two forms, but can find only one pair of templates to edit, the forms seem to require different templates but I can only find the one pair.

My question is, how do i edit the templates for two forms that need to look differnt if there is only one pair of templates? I'm sure I've missed something somewhere.... any help?

EDIT, scrap that question, you need to create custom templates and do it that way. Might be nice if that info were added in the very beginning of the hacks instructions as Ive seen a number of posts in this thread asking similar questions

Very cool hack

Mike

[shadowbreed]

Anyone have any idea on how to disable the smilies field completely from the form?

I have some smilies that cause an error if they are used when submitting the form, and it doesn't really need smilies so i'd rather have the entire box with smilies gone.

[Elenna]

I believe it is under Forum Permissions - th ere are options for allowing Post Icons and Smilies. Set Smilies to 'No' for the forum you have it posting in to.

[shadowbreed]

Unfortunately that only seems to remove the parsing of the smilies.

It leaves the box in the form :S

It does seem to remove the error, so it's at least useable now , but it would be nice to just completely remove it somehow.

[ang2el]

I installed the product according to the instruction

1 - Import the xml into products. (admin cp -> Plugin System -> Manage Products -> Add/Import Product)

I did this

2 - Edit the main hook (plug-in) - the instructions are all inside the hook itself, in the top half. Follow the instructions carefully!

I don't know where to do this

3 - To get to the form, go to: /newthread.php?do=form (change "form" to the name of your form if you have few)

I tried mysite/newthread.php?=form it displayed nothing.



My question is where to look for form option after importing the product? I mean after this

1 - Import the xml into products. (admin cp -> Plugin System -> Manage Products -> Add/Import Product)

I lost and uninstall the product.