RELEASE: vBpoll hack version .0.1

Here is the first release of the vBpoll hack. It is still pretty rough aroung the edges, so I would appreciate some feedback. If you have any questions please post them here.

http://www.linuxquestions.org/vb.html

The check must not user cookies as a user can wipe them and re-vote. I hope it uses the database to store whether they have voted or not on a particular poll.

Originally I wasn't going to require registration to vote in a poll, so the database was not used. I am going to change that in .0.2 as tracking via cookies has a few problems.

I think it would be best if we created a forum for just polls to keep things less cluttered.

-Brian

Perhaps add a permission to Modify Forums like 'Allow Polls' so that behaviour can be set if so desired.

my version simply saves evey vote in the db, including the time and what the user voted. this way, the db is used to check if you voted, so no ips.

also working on a vote history, where you can see who voted when (but not for what, that would be unfair

I'm actually pretty close to releasing a preview version, everything is working except for the limitations on who can post a poll.

The only issue left is (gulp) editing of a post/poll. Do you think it should be possible to edit the questions or not? (abuse here would be an issue)?

if editing were allowed, it should be restricted to admin/mod. the posibility of abuse by user editting is too much.

Allow editing as long as there are no votes (yet).

Hi!
How do you include this poll in your vB, sincs it strips out the PHP-Tags.

bye,
Michael

i'll be posting a demo forum with the poll hack later today for testing. the poll script in the url in this thread is not the poll I used

I've seen many people wondering how the polls will work, and I think OpenTopic has it implemented very nicely, and to be honest, their board is what inspired many to crave polls in either UBB or vB. Don't take my praise for the OT Poll Feature as praise for OT. It's very nice software, but way to expensive for individual webmasters IMHO. But lets not turn this into a vB vs. OT debate. Here's their implementation of polls, and one I would like to see copied.

http://beta.infopop.net/OpenTopic/pa...946&m=77809659

BTW, I fully support the idea of having the option to restrict voting to registered users. It would be the best way to prevent users from cheating the system, and also give an incentive for lurkers to register to vote.