Summary:

User-generated content, flexible user and group profiles, registration, custom file forms

Full description:

Questions and bug reports are welcome and can be posted here:

http://community.elgg.org/pg/groups/56389/form-and-related-plugins/

(You can click on the URL link in the left sidebar.)

The form plugin allows site admins to use a web interface to create forms that they and ordinary users can use to create content. So you can add restaurant reviews, Youtube favourites, etc. to your site through a web interface without any coding required. You can also create advanced search forms for this content. The form field types can include selects, radio buttons, etc.

The flexprofile, flexgroupprofile, flexreg  and flexfile plugins (also included in this zip file) make it possible to use some of these features for user profiles, group profiles, registration forms, file upload forms and views.

Note: this zip file contains seven separate but related plugins for Elgg 1.7 or higher. These must be installed individually by moving each plugin directory into mod. Do not simply install the unzipped directory under mod. Make sure that these plugins are ordered after the profile, groups, and file plugins, with the form plugin before the other ones in the zip.

As always, this is beta code. You should not use it on a production system without a lot of testing first to make sure it does what you want.

Flexreg provides a number of additional features: registration moderation,  automatic groups, optional groups, automatic generation of user names from  display names (useful if your users login using their email addresses and  don't care what their usernames are) and replacing the display name field on  the registration form with separate first name and last name fields.

Forms (except currently the registation form) can be split into multiple tabs. You can make some fields required. There is a translation function so that you can make the same forms available in multiple languages. There is a simple templating system editable through the web so that you can describe how the user content should actually be displayed. Content can be commented on or recommended (like Digg) by other users. Users can edit or delete content they have created.

For more information see the README.txt files in each plugin folder.

There are also small plugins called flexprofile and flexgroupprofile (in the same zip file) that make it possible to use some of these features for user and group profiles, so you can manage your profile questions using a web interface. You can specify where this profile information is displayed on the profile page and choose from three different profile formats, including a tabbed format. You can specify different profile questions for different group categories.

Please read the README.txt files in the flexprofile and flexgroupprofile directories carefully before using these plugins.

An even smaller plugin called flexfile that lets you add new form fields to the file upload form and file views.

As these plugins are currently beta code, I do not advise you to use them on a production website yet, at least not without thorough testing first.

Bug reports and suggestions for new features are welcome. You can post a thread using the link above or send them to me through the contact form linked on my Elgg community profile page or the email address contained in the README.txt files.