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No bars shown on Poll

Anonymous — GMT

Installed Advanced Poll without problems, Whenever a poll is voted on blank.gif is *always* put into the results page. I dont get any bars shwoing up at all.

Any ideas??

Thanx

Auron — GMT

Make sure you uploaded all the images and specified the location of the images folder in the Admin Panel under General Settings I had the same problem modify it there to what it should be. Eg. poll/images

Its not exactly difficult if you had looked a little harder.

Auron

Anonymous — GMT

I've got the same issue. I have everything working good except the bar for the images.

I took the suggestions of the image directory in the admin section general settings.

Actual Dir:
www.(myserver).com/poll/image

I have tried:

/poll/image
poll/image
/poll/image/
poll/image/

Also:

http://www.(myserver).com/poll/image

Same result with both.

I even tried using absolute server path:

/www/a/(myname)/htdocs/poll/image

nothing still

I checked the SRC of the output HTML and it shows:

75.0%

blank.gif

Of course all the gif files are there. /poll/image

anything else that could be the cause? any other way to notate the dir?

When i change it to a bogus DIR:

/blah/blah

All my Admin Icons get broken Image links.

I refresh like crazy too.....

Hmmmm...

Anonymous — GMT

It took me a while to spot it, but on each pol you need to select *which colour* bar you will use. Sounds mad, but if you don't then it shows nothing!

Auron — GMT

Its not mad at all. If you don't specify a colour then how will it know which image to use for the bars and if it doesn't know it WILL show nothing.

Auron

Anonymous — GMT

thank you gentlemen.

c_house — GMT

how do you select a colour guys i cant seem to figure that out

Carbonize — GMT

I believe you set the colours when making the poll.

wicked — GMT

i did select colors for my bars, and i checked the image directory location in the admin section under general settings (and verified by typing the image location in a browser)....but my bars still aren't showing up.

i see in the template for result_loop:
img src="$pollvars[base_gif]/$poll_color.gif"
so i think resolving these variables will help determine why the bars aren't showing up, but I'm not sure how to resolve these variables.

anyone know?

Carbonize — GMT

Look at the HTML of the results to see what it is currently pointing at to give you an idea of what to change.

wicked — GMT

thanks, carbonize. the html source says width and height are 0.

the template says: width="$img_width" height="$pollvars[img_height]"

the images themselves are 2x10 pixels, so they shouldn't be 0x0

do you know why the template variables for width and height are resolving to 0s? if i hardcode the template to say width="2" height="10", then the images show up, but they aren't multiplied by the number of votes, and all bars show one color image even if they got no votes.

wicked — GMT

found out a little more...

include/class_poll.php is doing this:

$img_width = (int) ($this->options[$poll_id]['votes'][$i]*$this->pollvars['img_length']/$maxvote);

and when i echo $this->pollvars['img_length'], it gives me zeroes for each option, no matter how many votes they have...so $img_width is multiplying zero times the number of votes. and of course, 0 x anything = 0...hence no bar.

not sure why $this->pollvars['img_length'] is returning 0 and not the actual length of 2?

Carbonize — GMT

Send Auron a message as he knows more about AP than I do.

Auron — GMT

Has the max bar length been set in the options?

SteveF2 — GMT

I'm trying to debug this problem with my setup. The html for one line of my poll contains the following line

Getting into the straps
6

However the bar shows in white.

The image darkgreen.gif exists in the /poll/image directory. The poll directory is in the root and these are set in the General Settings.

I'm using v2.03. IE7 installed.

Any ideas anyone?

rockhn — GMT

I do not understand

Auron — GMT

[quote="SteveF2"]I'm trying to debug this problem with my setup. The html for one line of my poll contains the following line

Getting into the straps
6

However the bar shows in white.

The image darkgreen.gif exists in the /poll/image directory. The poll directory is in the root and these are set in the General Settings.

I'm using v2.03. IE7 installed.

Any ideas anyone?[/quote]

Is your server Linux/Unix based?

If it is it may be looking in the root of your site because of the first /.
Try removing the / so it becomes an relative path rather than abosute.
If you want to keep the / then add . before to tell it to start from the current directory then poll... etc.

SteveF2 — GMT

I am using a Linux host.

Thanks for your help here, and I think you are on the right lines. My site index file is in a directory called htdocs in the root and my polls page is in a subdirectory of that called html (\htdocs\html). I have placed the poll software in a directory called poll also in root (\poll).

When I do as you suggest the dialogues used by the poll admin routines loose their images. I suspect the answer to this is to install the poll software in the htdocs directory with my site.

I prefer to keep these separate if possible can you suggest any alternatives.

my polls are at http://www.rvsc.org.uk/html/polls.php