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Hello everyone,

because I'm new to this board let me introduce myself first Im currently using UseBB to host three boards on my homepages and one board for friends of mine. It is really a great piece of software and I want to say thank you for giving this to the community Keep on the good work !

Lately I needed a pollsystem and so I tried to integrate one into UseBB. It is a quick but hopefully not too dirty work. Perhaps someone can cross-check the changes I have made, because changing foreign PHP-code can often have unplanned results. Any hints, bugreports and suggestions are greatly appreciated.

I have uploaded the files to the UseBB Sourceforge site. A detailed description is included...

@Dietrich: Perhaps you can make use of this concept for your development of version 1 or 2 of your great software.

Bye

Pizza

Thanks for contributing, I will test it when I have the time.

As for 2.0, polls are becoming a part of the distribution.

Nice, also feel free to upload it to UseBB Zone's modification database.

( If you want me to stop mentioning this on just about every modification/theme that i see people add here, just tell me Dietrich )

Upload completed

Thanks, i've validated it, so it is also now available to download from there .

That's fine

@Dietrich: Some tags in my form were not xhtml-compliant. From one moment to the other opening a message with a poll produces an xml-error-message. Do you have an idea why this message doesn't come while I was testing the mod ?

For example I have used 'selected' instead of 'selected="selected"' or '<input type="hidden">' instead of '<input type="hidden" />'.

I have corrected the errors and updated the file on Sourceforge.

@Gaia: How can I update the file in UseBB zone ? Or can you take the version from Sourceforge and put it on your site ?

Maybe you had XHTML headers disabled in the ACP?

Just to note, we expect users to write XHTML compliant mods as UseBB's default template is XHTML 1.0 Strict. Without an XHTML header you won't see an error but it still isn't valid.

I cannot remember that I have changed this option, but it must be something like this.

The pollsystem now uses the language-support.

Damn, Dietrich. You are to fast for me

Updatet to 1.0.1.

SQL query: 

- TABLE usebb_polls : d int( 11 ) NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT , ostid int( 11 ) NOT NULL , emberid int( 11 ) NOT NULL , nswer int( 11 ) NOT NULL , en int( 11 ) NOT NULL , PRIMARY KEY ( d ) , KEY ostid( ostid ) , KEY emberid(
emberid
), KEY en( en ) 

MySQL said:  
#1064 - You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near '- table usebb_polls:
        d         int(11) NOT NULL auto_increment,
      ostid     int(11) ' at line 1

Hi!
I was wondering if someone can give me better code or help me out with this one here ?

I have uploaded the new version for 1.0.2. Including a bugfixes for use with friendly URLs.

@reset: Sorry I have not seen yout post until now. Please take a look at the new version. I had a mysterious problem with the readme file. It should be corrected now.

I have updated the patch to version 1.0.3. Although the old version works with 1.0.3 now the nasty warningmessages when using the patch are gone...

Again no great changes, but I removed the patch-warnings for 1.0.5.

Hi,
I'm installing the UseBB 1.0.5, it looks great
I'd like to add the MOD POLLS of pizzamampf.
I've downloaded it at SourceForge.NET
So I have 2 files, readme.txt and usebb_1.0.5_poll.diff

I've modified my database with specifications of readme.txt, but now, I have to use the .diff, but I don't know what to do

I think this extension is for CVS or something like that.
I didn't find answers on this forum, nor on google, so if somebody could help me with this ?

Poll system discussions...
http://www.usebb.net/community/topic-1215.html
http://usebbzone.com/topic.php?id=63

I have no idea about the .diff file, even reading topic Gaia posted, still don't get it.

Topics merged. Please keep the mod support questions in their own topics.

Great, thank you.
It's great to use, and really simple, when we know what to do
phpBB should use the same fonctionnality

Too fast for me to help

Perhaps I should add an additional note in the next readme about the diff-file. The problem seems to come up from time to time...

The updated version 1.0.6b has an additional poll-type:

If you remove the brackets around "multi" in a newly created poll the user can select multiple answers with checkboxes instead of choosing only one answer from a select-list.

You should not change the poll-type on an already running poll, because answers are stored in different ways. So the old user-votes will appear on a wrong answer !

Pizza

Is there a way to close the poll so that the results remain visible but no more votes can be cast?

Dawn

Hi Dawn,

you can vote in a poll as long as you can reply in the topic. So you have to lock the topic to close the poll.

Greetings

Pizza

Pizza,

It's me again ... I've been using this poll for a while, but it's been a month or so since I deployed one and I don't have any past examples to look at ... can you tell me again exactly what I need to do to put this in the post and show up properly. Right now, all i get is the code generated by the poll button, no dropdown, etc.

Dawn