New Posting Features - Make poll preview a REAL preview

As I stated in my corresponding vB suggestion, the current poll preview feature sucks.

For those who can't wait till Jelsoft fixes this, here is a solution:

Warning: If you are allergic to file edits or to manual template changes, don't read further.

Template changes: 1
File edits: 1

In poll.php find (around lines 202-215 in an unmodified version of poll.php):

PHP Code:

        if ($vbulletin->GPC['preview'] != '')
        {
            $previewpost = 1;

            $counter = 0;
            $pollpreview = '';
            $previewquestion = $bbcode_parser->parse(unhtmlspecialchars($question), $foruminfo['forumid'], $foruminfo['allowsmilies']);
            while ($counter++ < $polloptions)
            {
                $pollpreviewbits .= "&nbsp;&nbsp; $counter. &nbsp; " . $bbcode_parser->parse($vbulletin->GPC['options']["$counter"], $foruminfo['forumid'], $foruminfo['allowsmilies']) . '<br />';
            }

            eval('$pollpreview = "' . fetch_template('pollpreview') . '";');
        } 


and delete (or comment) them.

Then find (it should be right after the lines you just deleted/commented):

PHP Code:

        $checked = array(
            'multiple'       => ($vbulletin->GPC['multiple'] ? 'checked="checked"' : ''),
            'public'         => ($vbulletin->GPC['public'] ? 'checked="checked"' : ''),
            'parseurl'       => ($vbulletin->GPC['parseurl'] ? 'checked="checked"' : ''),
        ); 


and add below:

PHP Code:

        if ($vbulletin->GPC['preview'] != '')
        {
            $previewpost = 1;

            $counter = 0;
            $pollpreview = '';
            $pollinfo['question'] = $bbcode_parser->parse(unhtmlspecialchars($question), $foruminfo['forumid'], $foruminfo['allowsmilies']);
            if($checked['public']) $show['publicwarning'] = true;
            if($timeout)
            {
                $pollinfo['dateline'] = TIMENOW;
                $pollinfo['timeout'] = $timeout;
                $pollendtime = vbdate($vbulletin->options['timeformat'], $pollinfo['dateline'] + ($pollinfo['timeout'] * 86400));
                $pollenddate = vbdate($vbulletin->options['dateformat'], $pollinfo['dateline'] + ($pollinfo['timeout'] * 86400));
                $show['pollenddate'] = true;
            }
            
            while ($counter++ < $polloptions)
            {
                $option['number'] = $counter;
                $option['question'] = $bbcode_parser->parse($vbulletin->GPC['options']["$counter"], $foruminfo['forumid'], $foruminfo['allowsmilies']);
                
                if ($checked['multiple'])
                {
                    eval('$pollbits .= "' . fetch_template('polloption_multiple') . '";');
                }
                else
                {
                    eval('$pollbits .= "' . fetch_template('polloption') . '";');
                }
                    
            }

            eval('$pollpreview = "' . fetch_template('polloptions_table') . '";');
        } 


In template newpoll find:

<form action="poll.php?do=postpoll&amp;t=$threadid" method="post">

$pollpreview

and change it to:

$pollpreview

<form action="poll.php?do=postpoll&amp;t=$threadid" method="post">

Presto!
Enjoy your new REAL poll preview!

[Lea Verou]

That's very nice of them

I don't think though that it's needed to duplicate it in the Bug Tracker since I opened a suggestion thread for it, do I? What's your opinion?

[sockwater]

I don't know. You're probably right, since they read the suggestion threads as well.

[Corndog235]

Thanks, havent ran into a problem yet

[xorex]

Thanks !

[Taragon]

thanks working fine on v3.8.4