Simple newbie question

I'm trying to show a poll on my Home Page, just like the home page of this site.....
What is the code to have a poll show up?
It's sort of cryptic if you view the source of the page here

any suggestions would greatly be appreciated!

I hope that i can keep my index.htm and not have index.php

http://proxy2.de/forum/viewtopic.php?p=9744&highlight=#9744

If you do a search on this forum, you will find many other posts with instructions.

Advanced Poll is a php program, not an html program, so if you want to keep your html file extension... I think you will have to find another program.

there is no difference between a file with a .htm/.html extension and one
with a .php one --bar one-- the .php extension tells the server when that
file is requested it has to be parsed for any php code. If there is no php code
and just plain html it will be sent to the browser and display just as if it was
a file with a .htm/.html extension.

For further reading... www.php.net

- Auron