Latest Poll on non-vB page?

[gopherhockey]

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.

[mfacer]

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!

[SirSteve]

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

[annihilizard]

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..

[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"); ?>

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.

[trackpads]

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

[Ian Cunningham]

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"); ?>

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.

Is this now released?