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Has anyone come up with this yet, or does it keep getting shot down by those that don't like the feature?

Example - vbHome Lite - has the ability to put a poll on their maine page. So do others.. so, why not take that same logic to a non-vb page for those of us not interested in using vbhome lite or just want to put a poll somewhere else.

I don't even much care if the voting part is availbale - a link can be provided to the person to go vote if they like. Poll results - something that would catch people's eye as they browse into our main home page... like "hey, whats this poll thing.." - next thing you know, they have signed up in the forums and are voting and posting away... (this wouldn't be the case using a separate poll script unrelated to the forums)

Or even within other pages of a web site it would be cool to have a poll show up if one is available related to the topic in the site...

Anyway, this is my vote for someone to do this. (and not as a separate page like another hack I've seen here)

I'm sure not many are doing new hacks for vb2x but maybe someone finally got one to work?

Thx

THis would a very good addon for all the reasons mentioned above. Hope it gets made.

I create a new page called "customPoll.php" which I include on my website homepage. It basically gets which ever poll I want to include on the page. Its not that efficient, in that if I want to display another poll, I have to edit the file to do it...

... but it does the job!!

check out www.yu-gi-oh-online.co.uk to see it in action!!

PHP Code:


		
			
<?php

//get the poll from the DB



$host = 'x';

$username = 'x';

$password = 'x';    

$db = 'x';

$conn_type = 'mysql_pconnect';



$connection = mysql_connect( $host, $username, $password ) or die( "Connection Error" );

mysql_select_db($db); 



$query = "SELECT * FROM poll WHERE pollid='2'";

$result = mysql_query($query);

$row = mysql_fetch_array($result);



//split up the options, and the votes

$splitoptions=explode("|||", $row[options]);

$splitvotes=explode("|||",$row[votes]);



//now lets output the poll

?>

<link href="../images/style.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css">



<table width="250" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="5" class="links_table">

<tr> 

    <td height="30" colspan="2" class="links_top"><div align="center"><strong><font size="2">Current 

        Poll</font></strong></div></td>

  </tr>

  <tr> 

    <td colspan="2" height="35"><?php echo $row['question']; ?></td>

  </tr>

  <?php

      //output each option and number of votes

      for ($x=0;$x<=sizeof($splitoptions)-1;$x++)

    {

        echo "<TR>";

        echo "<TD align='right'><strong>" . $splitoptions[$x] . ": </strong></TD>";

        

        //get the % of votes (used for the bar image)

        $size = round($splitvotes[$x] / $row['voters'] * 100);

        echo "<TD align='left' width='100'><img src='../images/bar.gif' width='" . $size . "' height='5' alt='Number of Votes: " . $splitvotes[$x] . "'></TD>";

        echo "</TR>";

    }



  ?>

  <tr> 

    <td height="52" colspan="2"><div align="center"><a href="http://www.yu-gi-oh-online.co.uk/forum/showthread.php?threadid=29">Click 

        here to place your vote!</a></div></td>

  </tr>

</table>

hope people find it useful!

What about getting it to display a link to the results or the Poll Forum (category) to see past polls?

I'm acctually thinking that using some of the pluhNews source plus mfacer's source, I might be able to hack together something that will work... just gotta get my dev box back up..

I've done this as part of my API for VB3.

On your non-vb page, you'll place a tag like

PHP Code:


		
			
<?php vb3api_poll("2"); ?>

This will then pull the latest poll from forum id 2.

I've got a few other tweaks to work on such as allowing you to specify multiple forums to search for polls.

Not planning on releasing this until vb3 is final.

I've got a test page for my API at http://dev.thebookforum.com/test.php

The link may not always be there as that's my dev site.

Definately interested in this aswell. It will help pull members in to register if nothing else ;-)

Quote:

Originally Posted by Darren Lewis

I've done this as part of my API for VB3.

On your non-vb page, you'll place a tag like

PHP Code:


		
			
<?php vb3api_poll("2"); ?>

Is this now released?

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