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vicki
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Joined: 02/05/2007 17:23:39
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Hi,
what settings do I need to allow people vote once a day? I have a poll going with alot at stake so please help me asap. My poll keeps telling people they have already voted when they voted yesterday. They should be able to vote today too and every day for the next 30 days.
Thank you,
Vicki
Auron
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Joined: 23/06/2003 22:02:17
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There should be a setting in the poll's admin panel on the general settings page.
The value is specified in hours.

If your using cookies for the poll voting control then you'll need to edit poll_cookie.php IIRC one of the first lines says something like lockout or timeout is set to 96 hours.

Edit both these values.

Some of the information in this thread and ones it links may help some too:

http://proxy2.de/forum/viewtopic.php?t=2067&highlight=poll

Your best bet is to look at the posts by me.

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vicki
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Joined: 02/05/2007 17:23:39
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Auron wrote:There should be a setting in the poll's admin panel on the general settings page.
The value is specified in hours.

If your using cookies for the poll voting control then you'll need to edit poll_cookie.php IIRC one of the first lines says something like lockout or timeout is set to 96 hours.

Edit both these values.

Some of the information in this thread and ones it links may help some too:

http://proxy2.de/forum/viewtopic.php?t=2067&highlight=poll

Your best bet is to look at the posts by me.

Thank you for your response.. I took out the cookie code above html and set checking to ip tables and timed locking out to 24..will this accomplish what I want..for one vote per ip per day?
Will people who voted yesterday with cookie code in need to clear their cookies for the new settings I made to work?
Thank you,
Vicki
Auron
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This should work yes, and yes they will need to delete the cookie set by the poll so they can vote again.

Other wise they'll have to wait 96 hours from when they voted before they can vote again.

Visit my site @ www.ragnaru.com
Adv. Poll Install Guide NOW BACK ONLINE! (And also rather out of date I would of thought)
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vicki
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Great! Ty so much..I am running a Dog Photo Contest on my pet boutique for the first time and was so worried when people were complaining they couldnt vote again So I really appreciate your help! If anyone would like to check out my poll its at
http://www.thepet-boutique.com/contest/index.php

Thanks again!
Vicki
http://www.thepet-boutique.com
Auron
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No porblem

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