Random Poll Question

james_plato — GMT

I am at a total loss. Within my webpage, I am using a call function for a random poll as below .

[code] require_once "/home/content/n/o/t/xxxx/html/xxxx/booth.php";
echo $php_poll->poll_process("random");
?>[/code]

It works fine and the script is great. Is there a way to ensure the called "random" poll is not one that has already been voted on (using the cookie)?. I am sure the answer is easy, but I cannot figure it out.

[code] /**
* ----------------------------------------------
* this code is optional
* Important! You have to include it
* before your html code
* ----------------------------------------------
*/
if (!headers_sent()) {
$cookie_expire = 96; // hours

$action = (isset($_GET['action'])) ? $_GET['action'] : '';
$action = (isset($_POST['action'])) ? $_POST['action'] : $action;
$poll_ident = (isset($_GET['poll_ident'])) ? $_GET['poll_ident'] : '';
$poll_ident = (isset($_POST['poll_ident'])) ? $_POST['poll_ident'] : $poll_ident;

if ($action=="vote" && (isset($_POST['option_id']) || isset($_GET['option_id']))) {
$cookie_index = intval($poll_ident);
if (!isset($_COOKIE['AdvancedPoll'][$cookie_index])) {
$endtime = time()+3600*$cookie_expire;
setcookie("AdvancedPoll[$cookie_index]", "1", $endtime);
}
}
}
?>[/code]

james_plato — GMT

I should add, basically, I want to use the cookies even if temporary. I need it just to work during the actually session the visitor spends on the site. You see I have a series of random polls, but I don't want to have the visitor (on the same session) to see polls they have already completed, I want it to skip only to uncompleted "random" polls. Does that make sense?

james_plato — GMT

Any takers on this?

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