Messages posted by: whitty

It's used to store a cookie on the person's machine which can be set so they cannot vote more then a certain amount of time. This is a better way of doing the ip vote because not all ip's are static and change everytime a user logs onto there connection.

You don't have to use it though it's probably a good idea.

To change how long the person is locked out of voting open up poll_cookie.php and you'll see a number 1 and then some comments that say //time in hours (or something similar) change that number to whatever you want.
hope this helps

read the readme file that comes with it. there's 2 versions of the poll. one uses a database and one does not. if you can use a database (mysql) it's better to use that. if not use the version that has the extract path to textfile/whatever

edit the correct files that need to be edited that are explained in the readme.
upload the files to your server
then execute the install file by going to it in your browser
i.e www.yourdomain.com/poll/install.php
follow the steps from there :D