Poll Start - End - Days Run/Remaining Hack v1.1

Poll Start - End - Days Run/Remaining Hack
Version 1.1
(By Boofo and Zzed)

What this hack does:

It will list the Start Date, End Date, Days to Run and the Days remaining for a poll in both the forumdisplay (under the thread title) and the showthread (under the poll question or status). If the poll does not have an ending time, the Start Date, End Date, Days to Run and Days Remaining will not show up.

Files to edit: 2 (forumdisplay.php, showthread.php)
Templates to edit: 3 (forumdisplaybit, showthread_polloptions, showthread_pollresults)
Install Time: 5 minutes (if you are REALLY slow)

Version 1.0 - Initial release
Version 1.1 - Fixed the error that a few people were having with the poll start and end time showing up in each thread instead of just the thread it was intended for.

French translation of this hack in post 7.

Screenshots in posts 4, 5 and 6 below.

If you find this hack useful, please click the install button.

[Boofo]

Today at 03:58 PM StealthAnime said this in Post #50
danka for this hack m8, this will come in handy

Thank you for the kind words.

Don't forget to click install.

[Bison]

I saw that Boofo, but I had already done this before posting what I call "my fix" to this.

But I see no need for the $Pollrun to be *concatenated* to the forumdisplaybit>nav ... unless you have polls that show outside the forum.

[Boofo]

I did it for the forumdisplay so that users could see how long a poll had to run without having to go into the poll itself.

[subu1]

Today at 09:57 PM Boofo said this in Post #49
What does Heute mean? Today?

oh yes, this is my german Board. Today is Heute, Umfrage is poll, Tage is Day

greetz subu1

[Boofo]

Great! I just learned 3 German words.

[moosey]

Boofo - great hack! worked first time and so easy to use!!

now for my cheeky bit!!

Is there a way of delaying the start dates for the polls to actually open?

say if I was running a competition thread and at a certain date the pool just opened for voting and then closed on the given date?

any ideas here?

many thanks

[Boofo]

You're very welcome.

Don't forget to click the install button.

As far as the delaying part goes, I'm not quite sure I understand what you are wanting to do.

[moosey]

clicked it mate

many thanks - as far as my request goes..

I run a competition in certain threads ...

some of these competitions are 7 days long but I dont want people voting until 2 days before the end of the competition.

So I need a delay in the poll, so is there a way of setting the poll to start on a different date then it starting automatically on that day

so a delayed poll i guess

thx man

[Crazy Pete]

Very nice addition. Installed.

[Boofo]

Thank you for the kind words. Enjoy!