[RELEASE] Poll Hack v1.0.1

[EDIT] Some users found a badley-coded part of the hack, I am rewriting that part and therefore have deleted the url from this post[/EDIT]

The Poll Hack for the vB, now updated for speed and fuctionality. Demo at http://www.naboonline.com/polltest/

new features from 0.9.2 (previous version)

- if a user votes without logging in, is asked to login and the pollvote still counts
(2 new templates,error_pollvotenologin, error_pollvoteinvaliduser)
- Graphical view of poll results available. Template pollyesvote has a new variable $pollbargraph. If you
do not want to have the graphical view, simply remove the variable.
- poll icon ist now not needed to be inserted into the vBulletin icon db.
- new file pollmodule.php - hacks in files only reference to it, much less code to enter into the new files!
- speed enhancements and less mysql calls.

Overall 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 (see localisation section below)
- Fully templateable - you can customise the look of the poll
- Users who can not post can not vote as well
- Make sure person did not vote, press back, and vote again
- 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
- Close a poll (admin/mod/author)
- Graphical view of votes (bar graph and/or pie graph) **NEW**

Note to upgraders: Due to a change in the how data is stored, the new poll is not backwards compatible. Therefore, you will need to run updatepoll.php

The poll hack will be intergrated into vBulletin 2.0, so if you are in no hurry, you should better wait


[Edited by doron on 11-04-2000 at 06:00 AM]

Perhaps you didn't escape the variables and so they were evaluated (which would make them blank)

You have to escape the $'s in the installation files. Otherwise, they'll try to be evaluated - which doesn't work.

Yeah or what I said before that.

the wierd thing is, it worked for me on my test boards...

/me dies in shame

Yes that was the problem. Thanks all.

Does this mean you'll release a updated zip file with all of the fixes?

I had some problems with 1.01 but decided to just drop the db's and kill the modifications and install it on a test board instead of a main production one

<a href="http://www.naboonline.com/pollhack/pollv101.zip" target="_blank">http://www.naboonline.com/pollhack/pollv101.zip</a>

that has the newest fixes

Are there any changes in the code or i can simply reupload .php files?

Hello Doron,

have you made any other changes in that new zip other than the bugs/fixes we discussed above?

Thanks Doron

I'll give them a whirl