Additional Criteria when submitting question

GoleyC · Post by **GoleyC** » Thu Feb 23, 2006 10:53 pm

How hard would it be to add additional fields when one needs to submit a questions for our FAQ?

We would like to have additional fields for the following along with the usual category, name, email..etc.

Make:
Model:
Year:
Engine Size:

Post by **Thorsten** » Fri Feb 24, 2006 7:57 am

Hi,

to do this you have two options:

- an easy hack that writes all the additional stuf into the main content table without any new columns in the database.

- a big hack with new columns in the database.

bye
Thorsten

GoleyC · Post by **GoleyC** » Fri Feb 24, 2006 4:00 pm

Thorsten wrote:Hi,

to do this you have two options:

- an easy hack that writes all the additional stuf into the main content table without any new columns in the database.

- a big hack with new columns in the database.

bye
Thorsten

We'd perfer the easy route, as then, when an upgrade comes out, the DB hasn't been touched and just the files will need modded again. Much easier route.

This would be nice to have an admin feature, where one can add additional criteria fields on the form for that extra details.

GoleyC · Post by **GoleyC** » Fri Feb 24, 2006 4:00 pm

Forgot to add, how do we do that?

Post by **Thorsten** » Fri Feb 24, 2006 4:05 pm

Hi,

you can hack that into add.php.

bye
Thorsten

GoleyC · Post by **GoleyC** » Fri Feb 24, 2006 4:12 pm

Would that be in this area?

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$tpl->processTemplate ("writeContent", array(
	"msgNewContentHeader" => $PMF_LANG["msgNewContentHeader"],
	"msgNewContentAddon" => $PMF_LANG["msgNewContentAddon"],
	"writeSendAdress" => $_SERVER["PHP_SELF"]."?".$sids."action=save",
	"defaultContentMail" => getEmailAddress(),
	"defaultContentName" => getFullUserName(),
	"msgNewContentName" => $PMF_LANG["msgNewContentName"],
	"msgNewContentMail" => $PMF_LANG["msgNewContentMail"],
	"msgNewContentCategory" => $PMF_LANG["msgNewContentCategory"],
	"printCategoryOptions" => $tree->printCategoryOptions($category),
	"msgNewContentTheme" => $PMF_LANG["msgNewContentTheme"],
	"readonly" => $readonly,
	"printQuestion" => $question,
	"msgNewContentArticle" => $PMF_LANG["msgNewContentArticle"],
	"msgNewContentKeywords" => $PMF_LANG["msgNewContentKeywords"],
	"msgNewContentLink" => $PMF_LANG["msgNewContentLink"],
	"copyright_eintrag" => unhtmlentities($PMF_CONF["copyright_eintrag"]),
	"msgNewContentSubmit" => $PMF_LANG["msgNewContentSubmit"],
	));
$tpl->includeTemplate("writeContent", "index");

Post by **Thorsten** » Fri Feb 24, 2006 5:34 pm

Hi,

sorry, it's in the file save.php. Sorry for that!

bye
Thorsten

Vanessa · Post by **Vanessa** » Tue Jul 11, 2006 7:36 am

Sorry for being a newbie, but can you tell me which line I should change on save.php so that I can add additional fields to the Ask Question page? Many thanks for any help.

Post by **Thorsten** » Tue Jul 11, 2006 7:41 am

Hi Vanessa,

you have to change various lines of code...

bye
Thorsten

Vanessa · Post by **Vanessa** » Tue Jul 25, 2006 7:57 am

Sorry, I understand that this is a troublesome hack but any nudge in the right direction would be much appreciated (and I'll come back to post the solution so that other people can use it as well) -

If I want people to enter their country (for example) under name and email when asking a question, I understand that I would have to edit:

language_en.php

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// ask Question
...
$PMF_LANG["msgCountry"] = "Your country:";

ask.php

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$tpl->processTemplate('writeContent', array(
...
'msgCountry' => $PMF_LANG['msgCountry'],

ask.tpl

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    <label for="country" class="left">{msgCountry}</label>
    <input class="inputfield" type="text" name="division" id="country" size="50" /><br />

What should I edit if I want to this information to automatically appear into the content box whenever someone goes to the "Open Questions" page or the admin goes to "Edit Open Questions"? (Which I'm assuming is what Thorsten means is the "easy hack that writes stuff into the main content table".) It would be good if some extra HTML is added to say "This question was asked by <INSERT USERNAME> from <INSERT COUNTRY>" and the admin can choose whether they want to include it in the answer, when they answer the question.

I've been staring at save.php and savequestion.php for the past 8 hours - any help would be great!

Post by **Thorsten** » Tue Jul 25, 2006 9:52 am

Hi,

which version do you use?

bye
Thorsten

Vanessa · Post by **Vanessa** » Tue Jul 25, 2006 9:58 am

Hi Thorsten, I'm using version 1.6.1.

Post by **Thorsten** » Tue Jul 25, 2006 10:02 am

Hi,

okay.... and where should the country appear?

bye
Thorsten

Vanessa · Post by **Vanessa** » Tue Jul 25, 2006 2:56 pm

If it's possible, I'd want it to appear as part of the answer - for example, to say "This question was asked by [AUTHOR] from [COUNTRY]" at the beginning of the answer to each question. Is this what you mean by the "easy hack that writes all the additional stuff into the main content table without any new columns in the database"?

Post by **Thorsten** » Tue Jul 25, 2006 3:48 pm

Hi,

I would add this sentence in the user name column, if that's okay for you.

bye
Thorsten