Poll options in version 2

Anyone? 😊

Second that… 😊

For this project I ended up using the poll functionality in the forums and simply linking to the thread … obviously not ideal if you’re not using the forums but wanted to mention in case it helps someone else out.

Heh, guess no one is using polls these days? But, if so, I’d love to hear ideas too.

me too 😊

For my project I ended up using Solspace’s Freeform. That and some embedded PHP made it very easy - the voting system was coded in less than an hour. And for displaying the results I used Googles Visualization API.

For my project I ended up using Solspace’s Freeform. That and some embedded PHP made it very easy - the voting system was coded in less than an hour. And for displaying the results I used Googles Visualization API.

This warrants a blog post! Care to write one for ‘the community’? 😉

How client friendly is this approach?

Well, I don’t know about a blog post - it would only serve to display my lack of programming skills 😊

But I think it’s very friendly.

I have a voting template that I embed in other templates if a vote has been posted. For example in my template for displaying a channel entry I have:

{if poll_question}
    {embed="voting/vote" entry_id="{entry_id}" poll_question="{poll_question}"}
{/if}

Then in voting/vote I have PHP enabled on output and have something like this:

{if logged_in}
{exp:freeform:form collection="{embed:entry_id}" required="stemme"}
{if duplicate} // Show results
    <?php
    {exp:freeform:count collection="{embed:entry_id}" stemme="Yes"}
    <?php 
    $count_yes = {count};
    ?>
    {/exp:freeform:count}
    {exp:freeform:count collection="{embed:entry_id}" stemme="No"}
    <?php 
    $count_no = {count};
    ?>
    {/exp:freeform:count} 
    {exp:freeform:count collection="{embed:entry_id}" stemme="Blank"}
    <?php 
    $count_blank = {count};
    ?>
    {/exp:freeform:count}
    <?php
    $total_count = $count_yes + $count_no + $count_blank;
    $percent_yes = $count_yes / $total_count * 100;
    $percent_no = $count_no / $total_count * 100;
    $percent_blank = $count_blank / $total_count * 100;
    print 'http://chart.apis.google.com/chart?chxl=0:|Vote result&&chxs;=0,676767,11.5,-0.5,l,676767&chxt=x,y&chbh=a,5&chs=340x245&cht=bvg&chco=A2C180,C15B5B,C3BBAE&chd=t:';
   ?>
{/if}
{if not_duplicate}
<?php
    print '<div class="votingbox">
   <strong>{embed:poll_question}</strong>

      <input type="radio" name="stemme" id="stemme_1" value="Yes" /> Yes 

      <input type="radio" name="stemme" id="stemme_2" value="No" /> No 

      <input type="radio" name="stemme" id="stemme_3" value="Blank" /> Blank 


   <div align="center"><input type="submit" name="submit" value="VOTE" class="form-submit" /></div>
</div>';
?>
{/if}
{/exp:freeform:form} 
{/if}

That’s actually more or less it. For this system I always only have three choices of answers to the poll question. But it’s not hard to make these choices custom and loop through the answers.

It’s possible to use a variety of possibilities for displaying the results: http://code.google.com/intl/en-US/apis/chart/docs/chart_wizard.html

Thanks for sharing, very, very appreciated! Do you happen to have a working example of your code too?

Well, yes and no 😊 It is working perfectly on a production site but it is implemented a little differently. You have to be registered user to vote and there’s a vote-start vote-end date on the votes. This way the users cannot see the result on the vote until the voting has ended. So it’s not really possible for you to view the whole voting process with voting and displaying the results.

Come to think of it, there is one vote where you can see it (the first test of the voting): http://www.parlamentet.dk/blogs/artikel/roder_med_afstemningssystemet

But you have to register on the site first: http://www.parlamentet.dk/medlem/profil

Let me know if you do it so I can delete your user afterwards 😉

I was just reading this thread and thought it was worth mentioning that we just released a polls module for ExpressionEngine 2. Check it out: http://eeharbor.com/polls/ If you have any questions feel free to email us.