mark, good catch! I had a verifyusername() where I should not have had one. Should be working now, I added it to the voting process and not the showing of a poll one.

the votehistory will not be in the initial version.

btw, do note that the script is in development, and the test board will often have sql errors as I can't test the code offline

I thought I would post what I want to see a poll hack do on my site, basically the closer the release version is to this the less I will have to hack it myself to make it work :).

Polls should be posted seperately from normal threads i.e. there should be a 'New Poll' button which is seperate from the new thread button.

When someone posts a poll they should not be allowed to select any message icons, instead the poll will be posted with a special icon which is only used for polls - this will help to differentiate it from normal threads and eliminate the need for a POLL: prefix.

Would probably want to use this icon https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/.
Also message icons are meant to convey emotion, the original posting of a poll *should be* impartial.

Once the poll is posted then the last post time of the thread should be updated to the last time someone voted, however the last post by field should be left to the original poster or to the last reply, (may be confusing but hey it's my board I can cause as much confusion as I want :)).

Posting rights, to avoid every newbie coming in and posting the same poll over and over I need to restrict the ability to poll. In my case I would want it restricted to Senior Members only (100 posts or more), Admin and Moderators would have no such restrictions.

Thats all for now ;)

100%!! I just have it different on my test board cause I was lazy to create a image. A new poll is generated by poll.php and not newthread.php

Good idea, I'll do that, I'll try to create a poll icon (or perhaps meanno?)


this will be in the hack, and will be togable in the cp

every usergroup gets a "canpostpoll" field, which you can set as you heart contents. ;) Try logging in to the test forum with UserNoPoll and password "password". that user can not post polls.

Wonderful. Whats wrong with http://www.worldmotorsport.com/vote.gif?

Ah but what about on the number of posts a user with 99 posts and a user with 100 posts are in the same usergroup but I would not want the first one to be able to post a poll.

Doron : Perhaps a "Minimum # of posts before one is allowed to Post a Poll" option is in order?

(I hate bringing more changes up cause we want this now!)

mark - ok, your icon will be the defualt. need royalty pay? ;)

the minimum number of posts could be a extra, no problem there, just another if and another variable out of the db.

today, I'll get that and the icon and the update of last reply done, the email notif. will be pushed to a later release.

hopefully this sunday I will have it packaged for releas,e need to get a installer script written too...

Great. No need for royalty pay as I stole it from Craig Antill's site in the first place :D

heh

btw, should the last post in the index.php refelct the last date time or jsut the last reply time

i added the code for the date change on vote, but it does not update the forum last reply.

My personal opinion is that a vote should not update the index.php list.