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by **FI-DD** » Wed Apr 25, 2007 7:31 pm

This plugin lets you add a poll to the short story and/or full story.

If you are showing the short story and the full story at the same time (having {short-story} in the full story template) you can only have one poll.

Example: http://english.cutenews.ru/cuteru/examp ... -news.html

The vote is submitted using AJAX so there's no page reload.

Cookies prevent the user from multiple votes. After voting the user will see the poll results.

Installation:

1. Copy everything to the plugins folder.

2. Put this between the <head></head> tags of your page:

Code: Select all: <?=run_actions('additional_head_data'); ?>

3. To style the form or results open plugins/polls-in-posts.php and add your styling to the first function.

4. To add a poll to your post simply put something like this to your short and/or full story:

Code: Select all: [poll] Yes No Maybe [/poll]

(One option per line)

5. If you want to close a poll simply change it to

Code: Select all: [endpoll] Yes ==> 45 No ==> 40 Maybe ==> 26 [/endpoll]

by **Heya Im Me** » Wed Apr 25, 2007 8:14 pm

Oh man, no way!! Thanks so much FI-DD! Fantastic job

I love how its AJAX, really great work

-HIM

by **PJR** » Wed Apr 25, 2007 10:05 pm

Very cool!! Thank you FI-DD!

by **scottdallas** » Thu Apr 26, 2007 1:15 am

I pooped a little. Yes, thank you more than words.

by **Saszoo** » Thu Apr 26, 2007 6:49 am

Three words:

AWSOME

by **gauss** » Thu Apr 26, 2007 9:32 am

by **scottdallas** » Fri Apr 27, 2007 7:00 am

I have a few small issues that I wondered about. Nothing that needs immediate attention or anything.. just some small things I noticed and tried to change myself but failed.

Okay first, I changed the style from 'grey' to a hex code color and it just WILL NOT change the color from grey. Here's where I changed it (and cleared cache afterwards just in case):

plugins/polls-in-posts.php

Code: Select all: $output .= ".poll_result_short {padding:1px; border:1px solid black; background-color: #848284}\n"; $output .= ".poll_result_full {padding:1px; border:1px solid black; background-color: #848284}\n";

You can see that I added the hex. Should that do it or am I missing something somewhere else? I couldn't find any instance of colors anywhere in any of the code.

Also, sometimes the font will get switched to Times New Roman (or default browser font) so is there a way to set a permanent font on this? Would I do it in the same area that I'm working with these colors?

And lastly, I noticed after I save a poll that when I go edit it again it shows me how many votes had been added to each option.. but these don't display on my site to my visitors. Is it supposed to? It would be really nice if it did. I can't figure out how something can be written in my {short-story} but it won't show up on the site. You can see it here http://www.scottdizzle.com

Well.. sorry for writing a book. That's just my experience with this. I'm so excited about this thing you have no idea.

edit: Uhoh.. when I use search and it pulls up a poll it gives errors like this:

http://www.scottdizzle.com/search.php?d ... &category=

or

http://www.scottdizzle.com/search.php?d ... &category=

I've been trying to figure out what's wrong.. but I can't seem to nail it. I have a feeling it's to do with one of the filters in search.php.. maybe highlight?

Edit again:

Yep.. I changed line 77 of search.php to:

Code: Select all: //add_filter('news-entry-content', 'Highlight_Search', 999);

and now all errors are gone and polls display properly.

by **FI-DD** » Fri Apr 27, 2007 11:06 am

scottdallas wrote:Okay first, I changed the style from 'grey' to a hex code color and it just WILL NOT change the color from grey.

Are you sure that #848284 is a valid color?

Btw, I successfully changed the example to #c0c0c0:

http://english.cutenews.ru/cuteru/examp ... -news.html

Also, sometimes the font will get switched to Times New Roman (or default browser font) so is there a way to set a permanent font on this? Would I do it in the same area that I'm working with these colors?

Yep, same place, simple CSS - "font-family:myfont" should do it.

And lastly, I noticed after I save a poll that when I go edit it again it shows me how many votes had been added to each option.. but these don't display on my site to my visitors. Is it supposed to? It would be really nice if it did.

Yeah, I noticed that too when voting on your page. Just the percentages is not very usefull.

How and where do you want to show votes per option and total votes? A simple screenshot would be helpfull.

by **scottdallas** » Fri Apr 27, 2007 11:20 am

You're right.. bad hex color lol. I tried again and it worked. Stupid me. I must have been working with not enough sleep or something. Font fix works too. Thanks man.

As for the the screenshot to show the votes.. I was thinking something like this:

or anything you could think of that would look better, nicer, or cooler.

by **FI-DD** » Fri Apr 27, 2007 12:51 pm

Updated.

(I didn't add the number of votes to the poll form because I think it would influence the user's choice.)

by **scottdallas** » Fri Apr 27, 2007 6:23 pm

Mmmmmm very true! Good thinking. Thanks man, I'll redownload.

by **scottdallas** » Sun Apr 29, 2007 7:54 am

Hey FI-DD I hate to be a pest.. but I wondered if you had any trouble with polls in posts getting stuck in 'Saving vote' mode. Sometimes I can't vote (sometimes it's 50/50 if it will work) and Ramon said he tried to vote on www.tastypolls.com and it would just hang there. Could I have maybe forgot to add something in the code? Perhaps a server issue? I use PHP 4 and MySQL 4.1 on Linux servers.

I'm gonna see if your example page gives me any troubles.

by **Heya Im Me** » Tue May 01, 2007 7:32 am

Hey Scott,

I checked with my error console and it seems to be a security issue that I had trouble with on the AJAX comments pagination:

Error: uncaught exception: Permission denied to call method XMLHttpRequest.open

I fooled around with the javascript file a bit and I got it to work. I'll post what I did later today since I'm about to head to bed.

-HIM

by **scottdallas** » Tue May 01, 2007 4:11 pm

Thanks Heya Im Me! I would've never figured that out. I'll be waiting to hear what you came up with. I don't seem to have this problem with ajax comment pagination but maybe I do and just didn't notice it yet.

by **FI-DD** » Tue May 01, 2007 5:45 pm

Heya Im Me wrote:Error: uncaught exception: Permission denied to call method XMLHttpRequest.open

Yes, that's the error I get when voting on tastypolls.com. No idea what's wrong.

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