Has anyone found a way to create a form that will post the information in SMF.
Im looking for the same thing...
I have no idea what you mean, but have the feeling that if I did I could help you....
Might you explain this a little more... verbosely?
-[Unknown]
I think were talking about the same thing...
What we are looking for is like a form on a website with various input fields and when you hit submit on the form in the website, it converts it into post and posts it automatically.
Example:
Form
Clan Name: Variable is CNAME
Clan Leader: Variable is CLead
Map: Variable is Map
Anything Else: Variable is Comments
Submit
What it posts in form
Topic Name: CNAME vs BBB
Text: Clead from CNAME challenges your team to a battle on Map. CLead had these comments:
Comments
Seems we clanners think alike. Exactly what Bkerr said.
I am looking for anything that would allow someone to input data into a predefined form, and then have that data posted on the forum.
If not posted in the forum the atleast retrievable by the admins. At first I was thinking about creating a register account type page that would save the "account" to something other than the real memberlist. Then it could view it that way.
I dont think the "Register Account" type thing would work...but lets wait for Unknown to respond...
Probably right. But it was the closest thing I could think of that was already in SMF.
Thanks to an idea from Dove (she posted the php spell check a while back) I think we might have thought of something.
Create a copy of the default theme name it Form1. This is not a theme users can select.
Create a new board called Forms. Permissions so that anyone can post. Set to the theme Form1, non changeable.
Edit the Theme so that the message display resembles a Form. No buttons for style, smilies, preview, or even links to other areas of the forum. This part I am unsure about because I do not know if it is possible to manipulate the post box in such a way that it appears to the user that they are filling out a form.
This would require what ever link sent them there to act as a Post new topic or reply in the board.
Now the sneaky part. Make the board with all access not be seen by everyone.
There is a way to make boards invisible. So I assume that it could be adjusted to invisible to all but admin.
http://www.simplemachines.org/community/index.php?topic=3484.0
Since only the post message template was changed the admin can still read the posts and navigate correctly?