[preview] Poll hack

Ok, you can peview the poll hack here:
http://www.naboonline.com/polltest/index.php

posting a reply causes the poll post.

the curreny big bug is that the redirection after vote/post is not working, you have to press back and reload to see the differences.

verify email is turned off.

yes toggle it as an option on/off if you can

Ok, the polltest board is now running version 0.8 of the poll hack, which is nearly complete.

Features:

- Let registered users post a new thread that has a poll integrated in it
- Let registered users vote on the poll
- Multiple votes impossible as userid is stored on vote
- Define # of poll options in CP
- Limit who can post a poll by usergroups (from the control panel)
- Designed to be easily translated. Only some text is hard coded (text on form buttons)
- Fully templateable - you can customise the look of the poll
- Vote History - shows who voted when
- Users who can not post can not vote as well
- Make sure person did not vote, press back, and vote again
- Uses user defined timeoffsets
- Admin/Moderator edit of Polls at all times
- Edit Poll while no votes (for user who started the poll thread)
- vB code parse for options
- closing a thread == close a poll
- Admin delete
- View results without voting

ToDo:
- Close poll from Edit page
- email notification when there was a vote

OK, now to the questions:
1. Vote History - you think it is usefull or not? I need to template it and was wondering if it was worth the ffort

2. Update last post when there has been a reply - should I update the "last post" field only of the thread and keep the name of the person who last replied, or change the lastposter to the person who voted? this could cause some confusion...

Originally posted by doron

2. Update last post when there has been a reply - should I update the "last post" field only of the thread and keep the name of the person who last replied, or change the lastposter to the person who voted? this could cause some confusion...

I vote for the last reply.

Originally posted by doron
1. Vote History - you think it is usefull or not? I need to template it and was wondering if it was worth the effort

What would the vote history represent - all closed polls? If so, I think it would be very beneficial.

2. Update last post when there has been a reply - should I update the "last post" field only of the thread and keep the name of the person who last replied, or change the lastposter to the person who voted? this could cause some confusion...

Last Reply - it might confuse the visitors since everything else is last reply

My two cents!
(Can't wait to play with this feature!)

Also I think a link (from fivelinks, or elsewhere) that lists all threads that are polls would be very nice!

Hey Doron

Great script. BTW I don't mean to be a bother but I wanted to tell you that there is a script division by zero error when you select view on a poll that has no votes. I'm sure it's an easy fix If anything it's not that important nor would many people be idiotic enough to click on results with no votes (except bug testers) so don't worry about it!

[Edited by SonnetCelestial on 07-12-2000 at 05:43 PM]

vote history shows who voted when for each poll.

division by error - damn, I was sure I was catching that, lemme fix that. (thanks!)

rangersfan - should be easy, I thought of adding a |x posts with y polls to the main template

OK, now to the questions:
1. Vote History - you think it is usefull or not? I need to template it and was wondering if it was worth the ffort

I woudldn't want the users to be able to access it. But just maybe put it and I get take it out in the templates, so only I (and a knowledgeable few) know the address.

2. Update last post when there has been a reply - should I update the "last post" field only of the thread and keep the name of the person who last replied, or change the lastposter to the person who voted? this could cause some confusion...

Yes it is confusing but causes me to worry that if you have a poll which is attracting a lot of people to vote but nobody is actually posting any replies on a busy forum the poll will dissapear off the thread list very very quickly. You have to have some way to "top" the poll thread.

Is it just the way your forums have been set up but I would need non-logged in / unregistered users to be able to view the poll (if not vote in it)

Yes it is confusing but causes me to worry that if you have a poll which is attracting a lot of people to vote but nobody is actually posting any replies on a busy forum the poll will dissapear off the thread list very very quickly. You have to have some way to "top" the poll thread.

same here, maybe something like the announcement thread which stays at the top ?