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Does advanced poll work in .html?

Anonymous — GMT

I would like my poll to work in .html extension, is that possible? thx.

Anonymous — GMT

Im having the same issue here. What is the tag to use to post the poll in a html document?

Carbonize — GMT

Only if your HOST has .htm extensions set up to be passed to PHP otherwise, and this is the normal setup, you need to use the .php extension.

yes you can have advanced poll in your .HTML

Anonymous — GMT

I found a way to have your advanced poll in your HTML document and leave it as a HTML document.

1) Create a php page with just you poll. it should look something like this..

put your php code for the poll here

Notice you dont need the opening and closing tags for and .
All you need is just the snippet of php/HTML code for the actuall poll.
Save the php page as a .php...lets use test.php for this example.

2) Then in your HTML document, wherever you want your poll, put:

[code][/code]

Ofcourse you will have to play around with the width and height till you get it right.

If you want to see my implementation, you can check it here - [url]www.uwi-iob.org[/url]

Shivan Jaikaran

Lyric — GMT

in the admin section it says to embed a poll into your html to do this:

[code]
// Important! You have to include it before your html code
include_once "/home/lyricsa/public_html/poll/poll_cookie.php";
?>

include_once "/home/lyricsa/public_html/poll/booth.php";
echo $php_poll->poll_process(6);
?>

[/code]

but when i do that its ends up showing
poll_process(6);
?>
instead of the poll.

the iframe is a great idea, but i am chaging my site over from using iframes due to the fact they are not that compatible with other web browsers. so does anyone else have any more ideas on how to fix this embedded problem?

Carbonize — GMT

Yes use the .php extension :p or speak to your host to see if you can't have the .htm and .html extensions passed to PHP.

Skorch — GMT

You can use .htaccess to have your page extension(ie .html ) to be handled as another like php. You pretty much customize how your page is served. I use it to handle my .htm and.html files as .shtml I assume it will work with other file extensions though. As I did below. The server parsed thing might have to be different make it work for php

AddType text/html .shtml
AddHandler server-parsed .html
AddHandler server-parsed .shtml
AddHandler server-parsed .htm

los5o7 — GMT

any idea how it'd be done for .php?

Auron — GMT

you don't need to add .php to htaccess. it is already parsed since it has the php extension.
if a page has php in it should have the php extension.

php pages can contain html, its just pointless setting a server to pass .php
and .html/htm files as most of the .html/htm files will have just html and not php.
I mean, the server has to parse an entire file and it turns out it contains no php!
What a waste of time and resources.

I mean if your host has PHP, why do you need to give your page a .htm/html extension?
You can use a .php extension and save yourself a lot of time.

Skorch — GMT

I tried that way because i have a 109 page site and making it php compatible will take awhile. I would replace .shtml with .php and see how it went from there.

Ended up using pop up...

Anonymous — GMT

I added the following line to my htaccess file:
[code]AddType application/x-httpd-php .php .html[/code]and my pages worked fine, the poll worked fine but it would not work on the index page which where I wanted it. I got a huge error which took the place of my index page:
[code]MySQL Error : Database Error
Error Number: 1046 No Database Selected
PHP Version : 4.3.10
OS : Linux
Server : Apache
Script Name : /index.php[/code]
I have mod_rewrite on so perhaps that's why it won't work on the front page. It does seem to work on an inside page though.

Instead, I ended up using a pop up. All my pages are PHP using .html extensions and I would lose far too much traffic if I had to switch over to PHP extensions. Using a pop up window works for now until I can find another solution to include it (I don't want to use an iframe).

Good luck.
Hope

Carbonize — GMT

No that message means you forgot to fill in your MySQL details in the config file of the script.

I think I completed config properly

Anonymous — GMT

That's intestesting because it works when opening the poll in a PHP file (as a popup) just fine and I believe I filled out everything properly in the config file. I'm thinking it could be because I added the include PHP code to part of an HTML template when I should be doing something else, like creating the PHP page and calling that within the template. Obviously, I don't know PHP (but will learn asap!) though I will experiment a bit and see what happens. Thank you Carbonize.
Hope
[quote="Carbonize"]No that message means you forgot to fill in your MySQL details in the config file of the script.[/quote]

How to lose traffics via Advanced Poll

Anonymous — GMT

I have been searching this forum for a way to make it work in html files instead of php. Why ?

Because if you have a nice page that ranks highly in a search engine with an html or htm extension, and suddenly change it to php .. the engine won't be able to find the page. It will think that the page won't exist anymore!

That is a very easy way to lose traffic!

So, I can only use php extension for new pages or pages that does not rank well . I believe there;s a way to make it work in html docs...still looking for it in this forum

Sad that a nice software ended up having super-poor documentation

Carbonize — GMT

The search engine found your page once, it would find it again. Your other options are to set up a 302 page moved header for the htm extension and point it to the new page or simply .htaccess file to send anyone requesting the .html extension to the .php extension.

Auron — GMT

http://proxy2.de/forum/viewtopic.php?t=4736

by Iskandar

Carbonize — GMT

Bet Auron's happy now he doesn't have to explain how to do it :p
It's quite funny because I just had to help a bloke with the guestbook who had used .htaccess to pass .htm to the processor. Personally I see no reason to not use .php but ho hum.

Auron — GMT

[quote="Carbonize"]Bet Auron's happy now he doesn't have to explain how to do it :p
It's quite funny because I just had to help a bloke with the guestbook who had used .htaccess to pass .htm to the processor. Personally I see no reason to not use .php but ho hum.[/quote]

ditto on the last part. if only people planned ahead... lol

nb. new site up soon!