tjdrico
04-22-2004, 10:00 PM
Again, did a quick search and didn't find this.
By default, polls are open ended. People can vote on them for as long as they like, and poll threads tend to get bumped even if no one posts (I know you can turn that off).
There isn't way to set the default time-out on polls, so they end after N days, and most people tend not to set one. If you want your forum's polls to have a default shelf life, there's a very simple way to encourage this:
Open poll.php
Find:
// ############################### start new poll ###############################
if ($_REQUEST['do'] == 'newpoll')
{
After, add:
$timeout = 2;
Save & close. The 2 means "2 days", so you can set it to 1 day, 5 days, a week etc. This will then be the default value in the "Poll Timeout" / "Close poll N days after" box. Users may freely change it back to 0 or any other value.
By default, polls are open ended. People can vote on them for as long as they like, and poll threads tend to get bumped even if no one posts (I know you can turn that off).
There isn't way to set the default time-out on polls, so they end after N days, and most people tend not to set one. If you want your forum's polls to have a default shelf life, there's a very simple way to encourage this:
Open poll.php
Find:
// ############################### start new poll ###############################
if ($_REQUEST['do'] == 'newpoll')
{
After, add:
$timeout = 2;
Save & close. The 2 means "2 days", so you can set it to 1 day, 5 days, a week etc. This will then be the default value in the "Poll Timeout" / "Close poll N days after" box. Users may freely change it back to 0 or any other value.