Scratch

A weekly poll might be interesting if it's just for fun. 

As for a poll option on the forums, that would work best if put in and limited to the suggestions part of the forum, so people can vote on a suggestion.

The downside to this is people creating multiple accounts just to vote.
But other than that, I don't think polls are a bad idea. 

That's a good idea! There could also be an option to insert a poll to a forum topic. That would be very good!

Stickman704 wrote:

cheddargirl wrote:

The downside to this is people creating multiple accounts just to vote.

They could just make it 1 vote per ip and no one would bother buying more computers

you could also have a fourm topic about the poll. A bit like runetips

I hope it happens

Maybe... But then again, there's often many people using the same IP...

I've actually got some PHP code ready to make a scratch poll... I just need to find an SQL host to use it with.
For now, I've created the front-end code to display the graph.
This URL:
http://mmun.ca/internal/graph.php?yes=9 … tch%20poll
Will give a graph that has a yes height of 90%, a no of 40%, and a title of 'scratch poll,' such as this:

Try changing these in your browser to see how it works.
We'd simply display this, followed by a yes and no image, each linked to a php script that adds one to the selected category.
Right now it reads the values from the GET arguments; when I find an SQL host, it will read the arguments from there.
The code as it currently stands is:

<?php
$my_img = imagecreate( 200, 200 );
$background = imagecolorallocate( $my_img, 238, 238, 238 ); //Set colours
$text_colour = imagecolorallocate( $my_img, 0, 0, 0 );
$line_colour = imagecolorallocate( $my_img, 0, 0, 0 );
imagestring( $my_img, 5, 40, 175, $_REQUEST['title'], $text_colour ); // output text
imagestring( $my_img, 4, 35, 155, "Yes", $text_colour );
imagestring( $my_img, 4, 135, 155, "No", $text_colour );
imagesetthickness ( $my_img, 1 );
imagerectangle ( $my_img ,10,150-($_REQUEST['yes']*1.45),95,150,$line_colour);
imagerectangle ( $my_img ,105,150-($_REQUEST['no']*1.45),190,150,$line_colour);

imagefilledrectangle ( $my_img ,11,151-($_REQUEST['yes']*1.45),94,149,  imagecolorallocate( $my_img, 0, 255, 0 ));
imagefilledrectangle ( $my_img ,106,151-($_REQUEST['no']*1.45),189,149,imagecolorallocate( $my_img, 255, 0, 0 ));
header( "Content-type: image/png" ); // tell php that this is a png image
imagepng( $my_img );
imagecolordeallocate( $line_color ); // free up memory
imagecolordeallocate( $text_color );
imagecolordeallocate( $background );
imagedestroy( $my_img );
?>

Last edited by billyedward (2010-02-24 02:45:47)

BWOG wrote:

billyedward wrote:

I've actually got some PHP code ready to make a scratch poll... I just need to find an SQL host to use it with.
For now, I've created the front-end code to display the graph.
This URL:
http://mmun.ca/internal/graph.php?yes=9 … tch%20poll
Will give a graph that has a yes height of 90%, a no of 40%, and a title of 'scratch poll,' such as this:
http://mmun.ca/internal/graph.php?yes=9 … tch%20poll
Try changing these in your browser to see how it works.
We'd simply display this, followed by a yes and no image, each linked to a php script that adds one to the selected category.
Right now it reads the values from the GET arguments; when I find an SQL host, it will read the arguments from there.
The code as it currently stands is:

Code:

<?php
$my_img = imagecreate( 200, 200 );
$background = imagecolorallocate( $my_img, 238, 238, 238 ); //Set colours
$text_colour = imagecolorallocate( $my_img, 0, 0, 0 );
$line_colour = imagecolorallocate( $my_img, 0, 0, 0 );
imagestring( $my_img, 5, 40, 175, $_REQUEST['title'], $text_colour ); // output text
imagestring( $my_img, 4, 35, 155, "Yes", $text_colour );
imagestring( $my_img, 4, 135, 155, "No", $text_colour );
imagesetthickness ( $my_img, 1 );
imagerectangle ( $my_img ,10,150-($_REQUEST['yes']*1.45),95,150,$line_colour);
imagerectangle ( $my_img ,105,150-($_REQUEST['no']*1.45),190,150,$line_colour);

imagefilledrectangle ( $my_img ,11,151-($_REQUEST['yes']*1.45),94,149,  imagecolorallocate( $my_img, 0, 255, 0 ));
imagefilledrectangle ( $my_img ,106,151-($_REQUEST['no']*1.45),189,149,imagecolorallocate( $my_img, 255, 0, 0 ));
header( "Content-type: image/png" ); // tell php that this is a png image
imagepng( $my_img );
imagecolordeallocate( $line_color ); // free up memory
imagecolordeallocate( $text_color );
imagecolordeallocate( $background );
imagedestroy( $my_img );
?>

It really doesn't have to be that advanced. All they have to do is add a polls section to the forum, without any programming.

No, I'll have done all the programming.
All that the user would have to do is:
1) Fill in a quick form to add the listing to the SQL db
2) Copy and paste the code into the forum
As simple as that; all point and click!