Competitions

Description
Adds a competition module to your forums. You can create as many competitions and allow members to participate in them.

Features

• Ability to force participants to fill certain custom profile fields
• Send Private Message to members who participate in the competitions
• Ability to allow more than one entry from a participant
• Input field for answers can be either a textbox, a textarea, radio buttons or a drop-down menu
• If the input type is radio buttons or a drop-down menu, the system can filter out wrong answers and generate a list of winners by picking random participants
• Schedule competitions by setting the starting date (user contributed)
• Very customizable

Installation

1. Upload all necessary files to their respective directories.
2. Install the product XML file.
3. Edit the navbar template to add a link to competitions.php page. (see below)
4. Set necessary permissions for each usergroup to access and/or participate in competitions.
5. Edit the "hkc_nopermission_loggedin" and "hkc_winner_congratulate_message" phrase to customize to your taste.

Upgrade

1. Upload all necessary files to their respective directories.
2. Install the product XML file. Be sure to set "Allow Overwrite" to Yes.

Editing the navbar template

1. Open the navbar template

2. Find:

<td class="vbmenu_control"><a href="calendar.php$session[sessionurl_q]">$vbphrase[calendar]</a></td>

3. Add after:

<td class="vbmenu_control"><a href="competitions.php$session[sessionurl_q]">$vbphrase[hkc_competitions]</a></td>

4. Save template

Author Notes
This extension was developed specifically for my website but I am releasing the code since a few members here have have shown interest. I cannot state that it is totally free of bugs. I would appreciate your feedback in making this extension better.

Maybe in Future
At the moment, the question is only restricted to one per competition. I would like to have the ability to add more than one question per competition.

[husain]

Originally Posted by mrahul

oki mate.. I got one more member now with more than one entry

one member has 5 entries , now the new guy has 2 entries while for the rest itz perfect.

Ok I am stumped here. I can't find anything wrong with my code -- since I wrote it I don't know where I may have made a mistake. Perhaps someone else on these forums can audit it for me.

[cbr929rrerion]

** installed **

also the mutliple box idea would be nice..

I want to have contests where I give stuff away just for posting in the thread or now just by entering this way.. is there a way to number the entries in the view entries page, ie.. 1, 2, 3, so I can pick a random number for a winner and see who it is..

If it numbers them then I can pick a number between 1 and whatever, go to that entry # and they win.. other wise I will have to count them ...

[cbr929rrerion]

How can we have it redirect you back to the forum home page after they enter...

another words after they submit it, it takes them to the forum home page

[puertoblack2003]

nice one **INSTALLED ** no problems

[MThornback]

Ok, maybe i'm missing something...

I installed it, edited permissions etc...but its still giving me the no permission errors on 3.5.1

any thoughts?

[MThornback]

its working now...but only because the profile conditions were removed...

[fiber_cut]

Where did you edit the permissions?

When I try to access competitions.php I get -

fiber_cut, you do not have permission to access this page. This could be due to one of several reasons:

Your user account may not have sufficient privileges to access this page. Are you trying to edit someone else's post, access administrative features or some other privileged system? 
If you are trying to post, the administrator may have disabled your account, or it may be awaiting activation.

[fiber_cut]

Ahh never mind this post I was jsut an idiot like always..

[MThornback]

Originally Posted by fiber_cut

Ahh never mind this post I was jsut an idiot like always..

Someone entered my competiton...and it tottally FUBAR'd my whole language table, Ihad to drop and add it...and I checked...and the submission happened today...and so did the crash...and this is the only product I use that uses that table....thought you'd like to know

[EasyTarget]

I think it'd be nice to expand this past just a Question/Answer type thing and include events or something as well. Let the administrator choose what the competition is, say like first person to X amount of posts or whatever.