Voting Poll

Scooter · (#1)

Is there any way to implement a vote poll without having to use a 3rd party? I am currently using Bravenet's poll, but it keeps throwing pop-ups on the page and I don't like that. The company that I use to host my domain has some scripts that I can create and modify for the site, but they don't work with 68 classifieds (or at least I haven't figured it out yet). Does anyone have any thoughts or ideas?

Thanks.

**Lhotch** · (#2)

There isnt anything built in so you will have to implement a 3rd party peice of software. What is the name of the polls your host has available to you? Chances are they require you to insert php or javascrip code into your site to get it to work. This generally isnt a problem but you have to escape the code so that smarty doesnt process it.

Scooter · (#3)

The name of the poll is "vzPoll" by ipowerweb.com. It says it must be inserted onto a page with a php extension. I'm not quite sure how to make it work.

**Lhotch** · (#4)

Do the scripts give you a chunck of code and tell you to insert it in the php file? If so you can out it in a template you just need to put the {php} tags around it so smarty doesnt parse it. SOmething like this.....

{php}
code goes here
{/php}

Scooter · (#5)

I placed {php} and {/php} before and after the code and it still did not work. It actually gave me a "parse" error.

Parse error: parse error, unexpected '<' in /home/cypressr/public_html/templates_c/^default^user^%%29^291^29105299%%layout.tpl.php.ph p on line 176

The code that I'm trying to insert is

<?php @include("http://cypressresale.com/v-web/vzpoll/poll.php");?>

detrate · (#6)

Quote:

Originally Posted by Scooter

I placed {php} and {/php} before and after the code and it still did not work. It actually gave me a "parse" error.

Parse error: parse error, unexpected '<' in /home/cypressr/public_html/templates_c/^default^user^%%29^291^29105299%%layout.tpl.php.ph p on line 176

The code that I'm trying to insert is

<?php @include("http://cypressresale.com/v-web/vzpoll/poll.php");?>

no <?php and ?> are needed.

just do

Code:

{php}
include("http://cypressresale.com/v-web/vzpoll/poll.php");
{php}