[Release] Poll Hack v0.9

Yep, here it is, the poll hack for vBulletin, tested on 1.1.2 and 1.1.3 Beta3.

The hack incorparates a poll as a thread starter, where users can vote and reply normally. You can view the test forum at http://www.naboonline.com/polltest/index.php

I hope the instructions are clear, any questions should go here.

Download the zip here!

Enjoy!



[Edited by doron on 07-16-2000 at 11:47 AM]

Originally posted by bira
ah, found it.

Doron, the same change should be made in showthread.php

Thanks to you and to Ed

i installed the polls on my test forum and added the 2 lines Ed said in the poll.php and showthread.php

now when i post a poll with a ' in it

i.e. don't it comes up => don't which is fine

but hit the edit link, and do nothing but submit again...

the don't now comes up as don\'t

and if i do another edit and submit it ends up show as

don\\\'t

I finally installed the Poll hack and everything went perfect. I just modified it so that a user can't enter a message along with the poll, put in their signature, or put in a topic subject. I feel all of that is not needed in the poll post. Thank Doron.

[QUOTE]Originally posted by bira
[B]Doron, here - I made a sample for you: http://www.atlasf1.com/bb/showthread.php?threadid=7213

Please note that this is the only place where we have this slashes problem

Thanks for the "Poll" prefix - however it's not much help if it only shows on the actual thread itself. If you're there, you can see that it's a poll, heh. I wanted a prefix to the title on the forumdisplay page.

And also thanks for adding the userban

[Edited by rangersfan on 08-10-2000 at 07:01 PM]

Originally posted by eva2000

i installed the polls on my test forum and added the 2 lines Ed said in the poll.php and showthread.php

now when i post a poll with a ' in it

i.e. don't it comes up => don't which is fine

but hit the edit link, and do nothing but submit again...

the don't now comes up as don\'t

and if i do another edit and submit it ends up show as

don\\\'t

look for the same lines in editpost.php. I'll get the exact code latter and post the changes.

the next version will have graphical stuff in it. Hopefully it will be done next month

thanks doron... your poll will be a great addition to my anime forum ...after that it will be to get a more on my prequels forum

Doron : Problem..

User who have "Store username and password" set to "NO" can't vote because they aren't asked for their username/password so they always get "Invalid username/password" message".

Gonna make a fix? I guess you need to throw in a form in the middle that asks for their username/password before sending it on to the verifiyusername function.

[Edited by rangersfan on 08-07-2000 at 05:06 PM]

ah yes i forgot not everyone sets save username and passwords...

i have a fix for that, gotta test it better. The basic idea is to have a login form in the poll template if the user is not logged in.

Yes that would be a good way to do as all the variables would then be passed on.

Originally posted by rangersfan
Bira what I did to prefix "POLL" was edit poll.php and on about line 146 find "$subject=censortext($subject);"

After that line add :

$subject = "POLL: " . $subject

Insert whatever identifier you want. This will make all NEW polls have that in front of them in their title. Your old polls will still show the same title as before. This is the much easier way of doing it. You have to edit several files, (forumdisplay, showthread, search.php) just to name some if you want to check every post for a poll and then add "POLL" if it is one. Saving it as part of the title is the way to do it. You can even insert html into there to make it stand out more. [/B]

Hi Rangersfan,

Thanks for the help and advice. I have two questions though:

1) Right now, in poll.php lines 146-7 I have:

    $subject=censortext($subject);
    $message=censortext($message);

Your instructions are a bit confusing. Do you intend me to add a line, inbetween the above two lines, without a semicolon at the end??

2) What do you mean I can use HTML? How?

Thanks for your help mate - I appreciate it.

Cheers,

Bira