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Title: Polls on my website!
Post by: jumpship on March 13, 2003, 06:06:43 PM

Hi all!

I have just added a poll script onto my website, alhtough it is still in beta I wouldn't mind if people could have a look at it and help me test it.

Many thanks!

Jumpship

Link in my signature ;-)

Title: Re: Polls on my website!
Post by: alx on March 13, 2003, 06:41:42 PM

Nice script - all seems to work fine.

The only thing that I'd do is reduce the accuracy - its a bit offputting having nine-digit recurring decimals there  :-)

Title: Re: Polls on my website!
Post by: jumpship on March 13, 2003, 07:05:21 PM

Done, well sort of! Slight inaccuracy until i can figure out a couple of things, but atleast no 9 digit accuarcy! :lol:

Thanks!

Title: Re: Polls on my website!
Post by: SilvrDrgn on March 13, 2003, 08:27:11 PM

I must be blind.  I don't see any polls.

Title: Re: Polls on my website!
Post by: alx on March 13, 2003, 08:34:24 PM

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I must be blind. I don't see any polls.

Here's a direct link (http://onlyamiga.kicks-ass.net/xgi-bin/displaypoll.xgi?poll=whichamiga)

Title: Re: Polls on my website!
Post by: on March 13, 2003, 08:38:54 PM

not a bad site! in fact its quite cool.
unsurprisingly, the amigaone has 95% of the vote  :-D

Title: Re: Polls on my website!
Post by: on March 13, 2003, 08:51:49 PM

hi alm
nice avatar  ;-)

Title: Re: Polls on my website!
Post by: takemehomegrandma on March 13, 2003, 09:20:21 PM

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jumpship wrote:
Hi all!

I have just added a poll script onto my website, alhtough it is still in beta I wouldn't mind if people could have a look at it and help me test it.

Many thanks!

Jumpship

Link in my signature ;-)

I was number 0000300 !! :-)

Nice site. One thing about the poll, don't you think that seeing the results before voting might affect your decision? IMO, the questions should be the first thing you see.

It's also possible to vote more than once! Two of the votes for Pegasos was made by me! Wonder who the guy is that voted for the A1? :-P :-P  ;-)

Title: Re: Polls on my website!
Post by: carls on March 13, 2003, 10:24:00 PM

@takemehomegrandma
Ah, the downside of gW3S: No server-side cookie support or session handling ;-)

Title: Re: Polls on my website!
Post by: jumpship on March 13, 2003, 11:06:23 PM

@takemehomegrandma

that is the problem with gW3S (as carls pointed out) is trying to work out how to do cookies or IP logging, that would at least prevent some immediate double voting, but as I say it is only a beta version this is mainly to see if the main script can handle it OK.

I was thinking of maybe giving the option of either voting for the poll or viewing it, rather then view then vote or vote then view. As was said view then vote could lead to people voting with the majority, but vote then view would encourage multiple voting.

I'll keep working at it!

Thanks for all your suggestions, keep 'em comming!

JS

Title: Re: Polls on my website!
Post by: jumpship on March 13, 2003, 11:08:09 PM

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alx wrote:

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I must be blind. I don't see any polls.

Here's a direct link (http://onlyamiga.kicks-ass.net/xgi-bin/displaypoll.xgi?poll=whichamiga)

Thanks alx :-)

Title: Re: Polls on my website!
Post by: catohagen on March 13, 2003, 11:30:35 PM

>Ah, the downside of gW3S: No server-side cookie support or session handling

but is it atleast possible to implement ?

i have no clue how cookies work, or how a script
extracts cookie data from the users browser, but
if its possible I'll look into it...but to know
if its possible or not first would be nice :-)

Title: Re: Polls on my website!
Post by: carls on March 14, 2003, 12:49:33 AM

@catohagen
Sure you could!
RFC 2109 (http://www.cis.ohio-state.edu/cgi-bin/rfc/rfc2109.html)

But I wouldn't wanna do it ;-)