e-steki Unvote

I was surprised that nobody had made a similar hack, so I decided to make it myself as I missed that feature a lot (SMF had it by default).

I think it's purpose is quite obvious: It allows a user to withdraw his vote from a poll. Very useful when somebody clicks the wrong choice, when more options are added in a poll or simply when somebody changes his mind!

Installation is very easy. Just import the product XML and make a simple template edit (more detailed instructions in the zip file).

My apologies for the greek lang in the screenshot, my english language is right to left due to the upcoming april fools.

Updates
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Bug fixed thanks to Psionic Vision

[Mellow]

This is great... this simple fix make VB complete in my opinion.. again, Thanks!

/me clicks install

[Barteh]

I've got a bit of an odd problem with unvote... the 'Withdraw vote' option is not showing up for one of my members. He's running Firefox 2 and tried it under IE as well, so it's probably not a plugin parsing the page and removing that line.

I've added a test account to the same four usergroups that he's in, and for this one 'Withdraw vote' *does* appear in the exact same poll, just like for the standard usergroup - all working fine.

Any suggestions as to where the problem might lie?

[deeoo]

Great mod. However, I can still unvote after the poll has been closed. I can't seem to find the 'if-code' to not show the link after it had been closed.

[deeoo]

Found it! What you should do is open showthread.php and poll.php and look for this:

			if ($nopermission)
			{
				$pollstatus = $vbphrase['you_may_not_vote_on_this_poll'];
			}
			else if ($showresults)
			{
				$pollstatus = $vbphrase['this_poll_is_closed'];
			}
			else if ($uservoted)
			{
				$pollstatus = $vbphrase['you_have_already_voted_on_this_poll'];
			}

and replace it with this:

			$unvote = false;
			if ($nopermission)
			{
				$pollstatus = $vbphrase['you_may_not_vote_on_this_poll'];
				$unvote = false;
			}
			else if ($showresults)
			{
				$pollstatus = $vbphrase['this_poll_is_closed'];
				$unvote = false;
			}
			else if ($uservoted)
			{
				$pollstatus = $vbphrase['you_have_already_voted_on_this_poll'];
				$unvote = true;
			}

Then, in the template pollresults_table you look for:

$pollstatus

and ADD behind it:

<if condition="$unvote"> | <a href="poll.php?$session[sessionurl]do=unvote&amp;pollid=$pollinfo[pollid]">$vbphrase[unvote_unvote]</a></if>

[adwade]

Originally Posted by Michelle

What feature did you add Psionic? I am asking to decide whether I'll upgrade it on my board now or later

I just D/L'd and installed the v1.01 zip file into my vB3.64 and everything seems to work fine. Is v1.01 bugfree -or- are we supposed to be D/L'ing one of Psionic Vision's xml files instead and installing it?

Btw, GREAT MOD! Many Thanxx for creating it.

[dcpaq2xx]

Originally Posted by adwade

Is v1.01 bugfree -or- are we supposed to be D/L'ing one of Psionic Vision's xml files instead and installing it?

Yes what is the difference between this one and Psionic's version?

Which one 'should' we be using?

Thanks

Doug

[Exitilus]

Use Psionics

[dcpaq2xx]

Originally Posted by Exitilus

Use Psionics

Ok, but why and what is the difference between the two?

Doug

[Exitilus]

Psionic tweaked it to work better if I remember. It's been a while.