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Using advanced poll and a CMS

timtaiwan — GMT

Hi,

I have installed the poll script and it works like a charm (thanks). The reason I did so was I was hoping to use it on my site which is already using a php based CMS (Mambo 4.51a as a matter of fact) the poll component/modules that come with the CMS are not as... well... advanced shall we say as this one.

However I don't have a clue how to get the poll to show up on my site. I was hoping to have a poll in every single content item, and have it be the main function of the site.

My issues begin here:

[code] // Important! You have to include it before your html code
include_once "/xxxx/xxxxxxx/xxx/pollphp/db/poll_cookie.php";
?>
[/code]

I don't know where to put this code? When I view the source code of the main page (through my browser right click funtion)of my site its shows:

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

Home - XXXX[/code]

So I guess from your instructions I put it above this... but for the life of me I can't find that code in any of the mambo files... not in index.php etc.

The closest thing I could find was a file called front.php with the following code:

[code] global $mosConfig_absolute_path;
include($mosConfig_absolute_path."/templates/corporate/mycssmenu.php");
?>
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">[/code]

etc.

Finally when I post the code snippet that includes the poll id, in the actual content I will be doing so through a form field in the Mambo CMS admin side... (basicaly how you update content).... will that still work?

I hope this makes some kind of sense.

I tried pasting the code snippet that displays the poll...

timtaiwan — GMT

inside of a Mambo content item and all I could see was:

[code] poll_process(5); ?>[/code]

Is this because I don't have the

[code] // Important! You have to include it before your html code
include_once "/xxxxx/xx/xxxx/xxxx/pollphp/db/poll_cookie.php";
?>[/code]

in the right place yet? Are they dependent on each other or does the cookie code just help prevent people from voting multiple times?

Re: Using advanced poll and a CMS

amber222 — GMT

[quote="timtaiwan"]Hi,

I have installed the poll script and it works like a charm (thanks). The reason I did so was I was hoping to use it on my site which is already using a php based CMS (Mambo 4.51a as a matter of fact) the poll component/modules that come with the CMS are not as... well... advanced shall we say as this one.

[/quote]

Interesting you should say that. I recently visited a Mambo site, http://www.chicanismo.org/, and I thought his polls were really neat.

Solution?

Joker666 — GMT

Hi, I have searched the web, and can't find any help that fixes this problem with Mambo.
Have you found any solution, I know this is a old topic, but maybe there's a solution out there.

Thanks for any help