problems with Advance poll

I'm new to php programming and have problem to implement the poll on my html page. The result is:

connect(); $php_poll=new poll(); ?>
poll_process(4); ?>

So, I used the suggestion which I found on this forum:

<style type="text/php">
.poll:#default
{
input your php code here
}
</style>

<poll php="#default" alt="My Great Poll" //>

Now is my page blank.
I don't know what I have to put in alt="", where do I have to put my poll_process(4); and how do I have to make it visable on my html page?

Pls. could somebody help me to solve this problem!?

change page extension to .php rather than .html/.htm

And use proper php tags and code...

<?php
include_once "./textfile/booth.php";
echo $php_poll->poll_process("newest");
?>