Poll Manager Support Thread

[boudewijn]

To add to the above (can't find out how to edit my post):

I think the standard style class for sideboxes is 'sideBoxContent'.
So the new line as mentioned should be changed into:

$content .= '<div id="' . $boxname . '" class="sideBoxContent">';

This also worked for my template and I suspect it will be a general solution for all.

Please let me know the results, if ok I will incorporate this in the next beta.

[boudewijn]

A new version of the poll box, with the fix mentioned above and some others, is available from the add on section.

[Decostyle]

Hello!

Tried it on v 1.3.9d. The side box came out ok however, the options were blank. I could see the box where the customer can check and vote but the words next to it are not there. Any ideas why?

Also I noticed that once the person votes, the side box disappears. Is that normal? On other polls I have seen, once the person has voted the side box will just show results but it won't disappear. Is that possible to do?

Thanks, it's a great contribution btw!

[boudewijn]

Hi,

A person (=IP) can only vote once. His/her IP will be stored together with his/her vote for a specific poll, so the person won't get the same poll again after voting.

After voting, a person should get the results so far. This takes a second, because the vote must be send to the server, and the results must be sent back.

I guess the text won't show up because of the style applied. Can you give me a link to where I can see what's happening?

Thanks,
Boudewijn

[Decostyle]

I was initially testing it on the local host when I encountered some other problems. At one point when I was trying the poll, it would get my vote and how the results, disappear but on the admin end, no votes will be registered. Then when I go back and refresh the front end, the vote box appeared again. It went into this loop several times before I changed the options from multiple to single then it worked.

Transferring the module to a test site online, the option text suddenly appeared! Then I was getting Internal server errors and also getting the loop where the vote was registered but not on the admin end.

See it here.

Let me know what you make of it? Thanks!

[boudewijn]

Hi,

I voted on your test server, and I think one of the main issues may be speed. After the vote, it takes a long time before the results get there. Also the 'loading' image doesn't appear.
For the latter I will include a fix in the next release, making the poll box preload the image, so it will display from the browser cache immediately.

Furthermore, there is a small bug in the admin interface: it will always show the number of voters as 1. Also this will be fixed in the next release.

I have no idea about not registering votes or not displaying the texts. I tried this on my test server but all seems to function well. Can you reproduce this behaviour and elaborate some more about poll settings and content?

About the 500 server error: this happens almost on any PHP error. Do you have error logging enabled? It should log the errors in the cache folder, provided that the web account has R/W rights there.

Thanks,
Boudewijn

[Decostyle]

hi boudewijn,

Thanks for checking! I tried voting on my test site and now it accepts it. The problem of looping where the vote is not registered happened on the local host server and first time I installed it on the test server. It maybe a cache thing, probably related to the browser? I'm using firefox 3.6.6.

As to the text disappearing. This happened on my local host site. I have attached the picture here for you to see. It maybe a template thing? I'm not sure... The text disappeared as you see on my picture using the cherry zen template. The text appears fine on the test server site using cold steel template.

Perhaps somebody else can test on their site and see if it is template specific.

Looking forward to your revisions! I think this poll will be a fun and engaging thing for customers. Keep it up!