Poll scripts

[Shoup]

Has anyone experimented with adding a php poll (other than the polls plugin)?

If so, were you successful, and if you were successful, would you share how you did it?

Thanks

[garvinhicking]

Hi!

It should be pretty easy using the "external PHP application" sidebar plugin where you can include foreign PHP scripts to include things.

I've included the Proxy2 "Advanced Poll" sidebar element successfuly like this (in commercial blogs where I can't tell you the link to, though).

Simply put the include file there. Possible "poll_booth" cookie includes I've added to my templates' config.inc.php file. One could also create an event plugin for that, but going with config.inc.php was easier.

Best regards,
Garvin

[Shoup]

Would we use the sidebar plugin or the config.inc.php file to set the cookie?

What we'd like to do is set up a poll then include it into an entry. That way for each new poll, we have a new entry for it. This would also allow us to run several polls at once.

[garvinhicking]

Hi!

You must use the config.inc.php file for cookie setting, because the sidebar plugin executes when headers etc. have already been issued.

The s9y poll/voting plugin does that in the event plugin portion of the two plugins, so you either need to create a custom PHP event plugin or simply put the code into config.inc.php, which is less overhead.

Regards,
Garvin

[Shoup]

Thanks for the help!