I want to install as it sounds like an awesome hack, but first was wondering if something is possible.

Could it be possible to say have a button in the first post to nominate that thread? So users can nominate threads instead of it picking based on views/replies?

Then after a month it will make a poll thread on the first of every month based on those threads clicked and close after say five days?

Any thoughts on this? :)

That would have to be an addon to this hack. I don't know if i would have time for that right now, maybe in a few weeks.

That would be great! Thanks

A donation might be in order when thats done ;)

Kevin

You would really need to specify a bit more how you want this. Should nomination votes get reset after selection? It would not be possible to have more then 1 Poll running at the same time i think.

Sounds like a whole new hack to me. And I do like the idea.

Users vote during the week, at the end of the week, the votes are used to create a poll, then the votes are reset and a new vote begins. The winners from the the last X number of weeks are ineligable and X is defined in ACP.

Ok, i might be better off telling what i have in mind.

First of all i already made some changes to TOTW:
- New option to close a Poll after X-days instead of when a new Poll is started.
- Created basic support for alternative way of Candidate selection.
- Moved current Poll from Rules table to a new Polls table.
- Added a Poll Manager (not much, just a place to see the current ongoing Polls).
- Created to possiblility to End a Poll, the next time the cronjob is run. This means you can end it earlier then normal.

What i was thinking of is creating a function (maybe an addon, depending on the fact if vBfiles/tables must be edited or not, since the current TOTW is more a "plugin") that can do the following:
- Create a way of allowing external votes to be made to Candidate a thread for a predefined Rule. You would only need to add a link to that function with the ruleid as parameter somewhere in a template.
- Make it impossible to vote more then once for a user.
- Empty the new Candidate voting after a new Poll is created?


(I know this doesn't make sense, but i just slowly start to figure out how to solve this)

PS Not sure if i would make this addon for free.

Most of what you said, sounds like what I said.

If it ends up being what I said, I have no problems shelling out a few clams.

Excellent :)

when i try to install i get this error :
[11-Aug-2005 02:36:40] PHP Warning: chdir(): No such file or directory (errno 2) in /home/xxx/public_html/forum/install/his_files/hack_install_b3.php on line 30
[11-Aug-2005 02:36:40] PHP Warning: main(./global.php): failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /home/xxx/public_html/forum/install/his_files/hack_install_b3.php on line 31
[11-Aug-2005 02:36:40] PHP Fatal error: main(): Failed opening required './global.php' (include_path='.:/usr/lib/php:/usr/local/lib/php') in /home/xxx/public_html/forum/install/his_files/hack_install_b3.php on line 31

If you have renamed your admincp directory, then please have a look at the config file in install/his_files. This file must be renamed and edited to reflect your directory names.