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Advanced Poll v2.02 -- Installation / Instructions...

Auron — GMT

Hi people!

Just to answer a few questions it does work! I got it to in about 15 minutes due to a few technical hitches (Not quite as easy as their readme file suggests!). I'm using the text file version on Apache 2.0.45 and PHP 4.3.1 on my PC - NOT a real live web server! Here's some hints on how to get it to work -

0) Whatever you do don't edit any of the files through NotePad or any other equivlent!!! Edit the files ONLY through the Admin Panel. Also keep a backup of anything you think you might need to restore to later. For example make a backup of the original templates before you start customizing them.

1.1) Add this code to a *.PHP file in the .. tags. Put it where you want the script to appear. This will display the most recent poll you created ::

include_once "C:/Program Files/Apache Group/Apache2/html_public/textfile/booth.php";
echo $php_poll->poll_process("newest");
?>

1.2) If you want to display an old post for some reason add this the tags. Replace the 'x' after poll_process to display the poll you want. To find the ID No. of a poll go to the Admin Panel and look under Poll List and you can find the ID No. of the poll you want to be displayed ::

include_once "C:/Program Files/Apache Group/Apache2/html_public/textfile/booth.php";
echo $php_poll->poll_process(x);
?>

1.3) Add this to the tags to display a random poll. Nothing more can be said really. ::

include_once "C:/Program Files/Apache Group/Apache2/html_public/textfile/booth.php";
echo $php_poll->poll_process("random");
?>

*NOTE* For 1.1, 1.2 and 1.3 :: Replace the C:/Program Files... up to /textfile to the actual location of you booth.php file. I have Apache and PHP 4 installed on my PC to test this kind of stuff.

2) To get the cookie feature to work add this code Before the opening tag. On the page your using to view the poll on must have the extentsion *.PHP !!! The solution to this problem comes with it. In FAQ.txt with the follders DB and textfile. So I'll quote from there ::

FAQ:

- After voting I get the following error:
Warning: Cannot add header information - headers already sent by (output started at ...) in ..poll_cookie.php on line ...

Make sure that the page your poll is embedded in has the ::
require "poll_cookie.php";
?>
tag before anything else. You may have to put in some path information before so... DO IT!

Another way of doing it is this ::
include_once "poll_cookie.php";
?>

*NOTE*If anyone has tried both these methods can you e-mail me saying which one works or if both of them work, so I can update it here.

3) For those of you with problems with the table width after some fiddling around the solution is SO VERY SIMPLE!!! Go to the Admin Panel and then Genral Settings. The scroll down to - "Table, Font And Color Options" from there you can change the width of the table and loads of other stuff!

If that doesn't work here's a link to a thread where I came up with some other idea for why the problem occured ::

http://proxy2.de/forum/viewtopic.php?t=2022

4.1) I've noticed quite a lot of people having trouble logging in. Well to start with if you got any major problems delete all the files associated with Adv. Poll v2.02 and download a fresh version of it. The first time you log in you have to use the default, preset username and password ::

Username: admin
Password: poll

Once in change the username and password!

4.2) One last thing I'm gonna add here is - if you put any code into a page that is between these tags :: :: is PHP code. If that page has the extentsion *.htm or *.html or anything else it MUST be changed to *.php other wise the script won't work and your browser will just output the code as plain text in a htm or html page!

5) Now I'm gonna how to explain how to stop people voting more than once. First get into admin panel and change the dropdown box to "logging on" then click "Save changes" (***NOTICE*** I've manged to get the IP logging working by just doing the next step here - General Settings... ect. and without the code at the top of the file). Next go to "General Settings" and down to "Miscellaneous" and then change the dropdown box next to check to IP table. This will check anyones IP, if its in the table they can't vote. Another point I would like to make it worked just by linking to booth.php as in 1.1 and I didn't need to put any code before everything else like it says in 2, so if this doesn't or does work then you might need to add or remove the code from 3 from your *.PHP page where you included the poll.

And 6) I can't think of any other problems. If you have any leave me a message in this thread or send me an e-mail. I'll say this ONCE - I'll only help you if I can!

Good Luck!
Auron

An example setup of Advanced Poll v2.02

Auron — GMT

Test_Poll.php :: Notice the .PHP extentsion!!!

:: Another notice when creating a *.PHP file the first line must NOT have ANY white space before it!

include_once "C:/Program Files/Apache Group/Apache2/html_public/textfile/poll_cookie.php";
?>

Random Stuff that goes in the head tags...

include_once "C:/Program Files/Apache Group/Apache2/html_public/textfile/booth.php";
echo $php_poll->poll_process("newest");
?>

Just change the path names to what yours are. Keep the end file the same though. The path names must be the full/real ones like these ones. I could of put "/textfile/booth.php" BUT from what I understand that doesn't work. So you'll have to input the whole path name like I have above.

*********

For the benefit of people with problems installing Advanced Poll and using it here is an example that proves it can be done. This server won't be available all the time and may be a bit slow as I use it for just testing. This setup uses the textfile version (said to be quicker than the MySQL version).

Good Luck!
Auron

Auron — GMT

BUMP!

Auron

help my adv poll

Anonymous — GMT

please visit my site http://www.miperwanida.com/poll2.html and give me your great sugestion for me thank for everythink

Re: help my adv poll

Auron — GMT

[quote="mida"] please visit my site http://www.miperwanida.com/poll2[b].html[/b] and give me your great sugestion for me thank for everythink[/quote]

Change to .php

- Auron

Anonymous — GMT

[quote] After voting I get the following error:
Warning: Cannot add header information - headers already sent by (output started at ...) in ..poll_cookie.php on line ...

Make sure that the page your poll is embedded in has the ::
require "poll_cookie.php";
?>
tag before anything else. You may have to put in some path information before so... DO IT!

Another way of doing it is this ::
include_once "poll_cookie.php";
?>
[/quote]

I've done this - and it doens't make any difference. I've got the path which it supplies me with also.

Auron — GMT

Do a search on it.

http://proxy2.de/forum/viewtopic.php?p=9905&highlight=cannot+add+header+information#9905

cookie checking doesn't seem to work

barryparr — GMT

I've got above the html code in the page, have turned logging on for the poll, and am checking the IP Table. The poll works great. IP checking works. But cookie checking doesn't.

After the IP check expires (I've got it set to .01 hours for debugging), users can vote multiple times. In fact, they can re-vote by reloading the page that shows their results. When I do this, the number of votes increments and whatever item I voted for gets another vote.

You can see the poll on the following test page:

http://coastsider.com/index2.php

Re: cookie checking doesn't seem to work

amber222 — GMT

[quote="barryparr"]I've got above the html code in the page, have turned logging on for the poll, and am checking the IP Table. The poll works great. IP checking works. But cookie checking doesn't.
[/quote]
I don't know about anybody else, but when I don't put the php code on separate lines, I get an error. This is how I have to do it:
[code] include "poll/poll_cookie.php";
?>[/code]
[code] include_once "/home/xxxxx/public_html/poll/booth.php";
echo $php_poll->poll_process(x);
?>[/code]

[quote]After the IP check expires (I've got it set to .01 hours for debugging), users can vote multiple times. In fact, they can re-vote by reloading the page that shows their results. When I do this, the number of votes increments and whatever item I voted for gets another vote.[/quote]
Not sure if you can use a decimal like that. :?:

Did you make any change to when the cookie is set to expire?
[code]$cookie_expire = 96; // hours[/code]
Take a look at Auron's instructions, which basically say the cookie expiration time should be the same as the lock-out time.

http://proxy2.de/forum/viewtopic.php?t=2203

[quote]You can see the poll on the following test page:

http://coastsider.com/index2.php[/quote]
Nice site. What blogger program are you using?

Anonymous — GMT

HI all, trying to add a poll to my site I have the poll files installed and I'm able to get into the admin part and all that is working fine I just can't get it working on my page I get the following.
[code]Fatal error: Call to a member function on a non-object in /www/j/jkwaters/htdocs/index.php on line 1037[/code]
I changed the code from
[code] include_once "/www/j/jkwaters/htdocs/poll/booth.php";
echo $php_poll->poll_process("newest");
?>
[/code]

to what I did for the cookie replacing the server location to the url

[code] include_once "http://www.muddysmind.com/poll/booth.php";
echo $php_poll->poll_process("newest");
?>
[/code]

but it's still failing.

Any ideas?

Anonymous — GMT

I think I got it now... although I'm confused still.

amber222 — GMT

I voted in your poll. It appeared to work fine.

Just curious: Did you get that first code from the Admin Panel Help section?

help Advanced Poll v2.03

Anonymous — GMT

what file do i got to open
i downt find file 'config.inc.php' ???
"
1. Open the configuration file 'config.inc.php' with a text editor
and set up your database settings.

$POLLDB["dbName"] = "YourDBName";
$POLLDB["host"] = "localhost";
$POLLDB["user"] = "YourUsername";
$POLLDB["pass"] = "YourPassword";
"
help

Anonymous — GMT

i font it

Advanced poll 2.3 on IIS 5. and PHP5

Anonymous — GMT

Hi do you have any experience using setting up advanced poll on IIS using PHP version 5. I'm using MySQL as the database. I've just recently installed the latest version of PHP and MySQL but I know they are working fine, so I'm wondering if it is something in the install.php code of Advanced poll 2.3

I get a message

PHP Notice: Undefined variable: HTTP_SERVER_VARS in C:\inetpub\wwwroot\polls\install.php on line 10

I think all the HTTP_*_VARS got depricated in PHP version 5. Even when I change them to things like $_SERVER['hhhhhh'] it still doesn't seem to work. Any ideas?

thanks
Michael Randall

Advanced Poll Instructions

amber222 — GMT

*BUMP*

amber222 — GMT

*bump*

amber222 — GMT

*bump*

Anonymous — GMT

Hey guys how do I change the colors of the result bars?

amber222 — GMT

Change the colors in Admin, General Settings, Table, Font And Color Options

Also see:

Advanced Poll background color change
http://proxy2.de/forum/viewtopic.php?t=3582&highlight=poll

Colors on different templates:
http://proxy2.de/forum/viewtopic.php?p=10026&highlight=#10026

Here's a link to a page with websafe colors and their corresponding numbers:
http://www.permadi.com/tutorial/websafecolor/

Auron — GMT

[quote="Anonymous"]Hey guys how do I change the colors of the result bars?[/quote]

Create or edit a poll, there is a drop down box at the end of each option.

amber222 — GMT

Thanks, Auron. I guess if I had been paying attention I would have noticed that word "result".

Auron — GMT

[quote="amber222"]Thanks, Auron. I guess if I had been paying attention I would have noticed that word "result".[/quote]

lol, forgot to mention you HAVE to be in the admin panel to do it.

Anonymous — GMT

Thanks alot

Carbonize — GMT

Bump as we are getting lot of questions about this.

Can the comments be shown publicly under the poll?

goldbadge — GMT

I deleted the preinstalled polls and I think the coding for getting the comments to show beneath the poll was part of that so I ask if anyone knows the snippet of code to put in there so that the comments are displayed under the respective poll? Also, is there a way to get the comments sent to an email address to be read or does an admin need to log in to the panel to see them all?
p.s. The comments ARE showing up in the admin panel.

Heres what I have installed and running now at http://eaglesfootball.milfordgrandprix.com/poll.php

include_once "advpoll/poll_cookie.php";
?>

/* path */
$poll_path = "/eaglesfootball/advpoll";

require $poll_path."/include/config.inc.php";
require $poll_path."/include/$POLLDB[class]";
require $poll_path."/include/class_poll.php";
$CLASS["db"] = new polldb_sql;
$CLASS["db"]->connect();

$php_poll = new poll();
include_once "/advpoll/booth.php";

/* the fourth poll */
$php_poll->set_template_set("popup");
if ($php_poll->is_valid_poll_id(4)) {
echo $php_poll->display_poll(4);
}

?>

Carbonize — GMT

*BUMP*

Anonymous — GMT

hi -

when i add the code to my get me poll in the body tags i get this error.

include_once "/home2/daktron/public_html/poll/booth.php";
echo $php_poll->poll_process("newest");
?>

http://montymessex.com/index.php?id=17,20,0,0,1,0

i think it has something to do with the notepad editing post above as the closing tag ?> keeps being change do its html equivalent ?>

anythoughts.

thanx

Auron — GMT

It should work if you've got it there.

But WHAT IS changing it to >?

Carbonize — GMT

I think they mean whatever program they are using to edit the files with.

Auron — GMT

What navthing?

I don't know if its his site parsing the HTML, that nav thing or what.

That's why I hate stuff like that it screws your code up like opening an rtf
file in notepad.

Just add the ?> to the file without using navthing unless that is a CMS if it
is then it may be a HTML parser in PHP so you may not need the PHP tags.
But that also depends on whether it can parse PHP which by the looks of
things it is but its not doing the poll bit. Normally this prob is solved by
changing the files extension to *.php

Its nothing wrong with the poll so i'll levave it up to you what to do.

Is there a way to make comments visible?

goldbadge — GMT

Hi Auron, I've got advanced poll 2.03 up and working by itself at http://eaglesfootball.milfordgrandprix.com/poll.php

I have a few brief questions.

1) After the people vote, view the results and post a comment, is there a way to publicly display the comments or are they only accessed thru the admin panel?

2) As you'll see at the link above I have a basic poll working on a blank page but how do I control it's location on a page (ie where it appears)? Does it somehow get put in a table or cell to control its movement?? I know it's an html type of question but I'm using a WYSIWYG editor rather than hard coding so I need a little help.
Thanks, Kurt

Auron — GMT

look at the demo polls on this site or search the forums on how to display comments.

the poll layout is done via templates that can be edited in the admin panel.

to control where it appears is wherever you include the include code.

Auron

Help?!?

ginadapooh — GMT

I have been struggeling with this for over a week now. I would appreciate any help possible. I have installed the polls, checked my file locations, tweaked everything imaginable, looked at it in firefox and IE. Still to no avail. Nothing shows up. Nothing......

My page is located at: [url]http://israellycool.goblogit.com/results/test.php[/url]

The code on the page is:
[code] // Important! You have to include it before your html code
include_once "/home/goblogit/public_html/israellycool/results/poll_cookie.php";
?>

include_once "/home/goblogit/public_html/israellycool/results/booth.php";
echo $php_poll->poll_process(6);
?>

[/code]

Auron — GMT

try using relative paths eg.

[code] include_once "/israellycool/results/poll_cookie.php";
?>

include_once "/israellycool/results/booth.php";
echo $php_poll->poll_process(6);
?>

[/code]

ginadapooh — GMT

Actually since it is in the same file as the poll_cookie and the booth wouldn't I have to make it just
[code] include_once "poll_cookie.php";
?>

include_once "booth.php";
echo $php_poll->poll_process(6);
?>

[/code]

That dosen't seem to work either :(

Auron — GMT

try moving it out of there.

so the path is just results.

does your server have PHP?
Are you using the textfile or database version?

ginadapooh — GMT

Well, I got smart and decided to try it on a diffrent server. It works (almost) flawlessly. I am not sure what the server problem was, but later days to figure that out. The only isssue I am having now is I am getting a
[code]
Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at /home/autumndr/public_html/israellycool/all.php:2) in /home/autumndr/public_html/israellycool/poll_cookie.php on line 21
[/code]

I am not sure if this is because I keep coming in and dinking with things or if it is something a bit more simple?

Thank you for all of your wonderful advise!! I may actually get to enjoy some of my weekend now :)

Auron — GMT

Check for any empty lines or empty lines with spaces before and after the PHP code and tags.
Do a search on "Warning: Cannot modify header information..." for more info.

poll install error... unexpected T_STRING

Anonymous — GMT

I install the Advanced poll as directed, followed EVERY SINGLE instruction word for word.

I set the paths correctly for the php code.

i am using a webhosting company. the paths provided by the poll was correct so i used that.

that path is [code][/code]

You can see the poll at [url]http://www.uwi-iob.org/polls/polls.php[/url]

I keep getting the error [code]Parse error: parse error, unexpected T_STRING in /home/httpd/vhosts/uwi-iob.org/httpdocs/polls/polls.php on line 2[/code]

I spend the ENTIRE day searching this forum for an answer, the closest answer i found for unexpected T_STRING is that i have a php issue with my webserver and to adjust the php.ini file.

But remember i am using a webhosting company, so i dont htink i will have access to that file. What should i do? Where is the error originating from? i hope is not a php issue with my webserver.

Some server stats: Apache Fedora on Linux platform with mod_perl and php support.

Auron — GMT

whats on line 2 of whatever file?

for the path try...

[code][/code]

This assumes the file calling the poll_cookie.php is in something like httpdocs - as in the base folder for your site, where the index.html/htm/php file is.

T_String

Anonymous — GMT

Here are the first few lines of poll.php:

[code]

"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
[/code]

Line 2 is actually :

[code][/code]

I commented off line 2 thinking the xml statement was causing the error, however that didnt work.

I'll try setting the path as you said in your previous reply. I'll let you know what happened.

Anonymous — GMT

I set the path as you said. I get the same exact error.

browse to the following URL: [url]http://www.uwi-iob.org/polls/polls.html[/url]

If you view the source there, you will see the code.

However, please note that the actually php file is at [url]http://www.uwi-iob.org/polls/polls.php[/url]

the polls.php file is in directoy

[code]httpdocs/polls/polls.php[/code]

So when i tired what you suggested, i tried both [code][/code]
and
[code][/code]

and i still get the same error.

I am really at a lost here.

Thanks very much for the quick responses.

Anonymous — GMT

Ok, you would not believe this, but i totally took off the xml line and it worked!

Before I had just commented it off, but i have no clue why it still didnt work then.

Do you have any comments on this?

Re: T_String

Auron — GMT

[code]

"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
[/code]

in this code change to or

Omahaguy — GMT

I did a search and read a lot and nothing works for me. I know this is probably something easy that I am missing but I'll ask anyways :D

My page is www.nebraskagamer.com

I have the poll showing up just fine. I have the common problem with the cookie. I tried adding the
[code]
require "http://www.nebraskagamer.com/poll/poll_cookie.php";
?>
[/code]

I had to include the whole url for it to not have an error. poll/poll_cookie.php doesn't work.

I added this at the very top of my html code. Before any code at all. I tried putting it in the same table as the code for my poll. Neither work. The only thing working is the ip deal, so I turned that off and the cookie doesn't work.

I am so sorry, I am sure this question gets old. :cry:

Auron — GMT

So when you turn off the ip stuff and use this it doesn't stop you from voting multiple times?

You can use either the ip table or the cookie.
You can switch logging on for a particular poll, but, if my memory serves me right all that does
is track stuff about the poll, like who voted and when.

A post in this thread by me...

http://proxy2.de/forum/viewtopic.php?p=5675#5675

May be helpful to explain a few things : )

Altshift — GMT

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