Multiple POLLS on one page? Can I do this?

[aaricwon]

I am making a page on this site that shows the fight card for a martial arts event.

 

basically a list of who is fighting who

 

you can see the start of it http://www.bjjnews.org/tuffnuf/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=52

 

I would like to have it so you can vote who you think will win. basically click on the name of the fighter you think will win.

 

I would like to have that for each match listed...

 

I can't figure out how

[laffin]

Either multiple forms, or by using radio boxes / checkboxes

 

[aaricwon]

I guess what I really can't figure out is how to have a poll laid out like the link I provided, where each match is a poll but the fighters name is the link to vote.

[laffin]

than ya wudn need a form at all, just a link.

with pollid and poll voted for

 

question is, how do you plan on keeping ppl from voting more than once?

 

[aaricwon]

at this point i don't care if they vote more than once. can you help me find a poll?

[laffin]

<php

$id=isset($_GET['id'])?intval($_GET['pollid']):0;
$vote=isset($_GET['vote'])?intval($_GET['vote']):0;
$returnto=isset($_GET['returnto'])?$_GET['returnto']):'/';

@mysql_query("UPDATE polls SET hits=hits+1 WHERE pollid=$id AND vote=$vote");

$returnto=url_parse($returnto,PHP_URL_PATH);
$returnto=(file_exists($returnto)?$returnto:'/');
header("Location: $returnto");
?>

 

very simple script, the question is how yer polls section is setup, so mysql_query shud be altered for this.

 

so can be called from any page with

votefor.php?id=xxx&vote=yyy&returnto=zzz

 

where

xxx = Poll ID

yyy = Vote

zzz = current page/script to return to after updating the polls

 

[Xajel]

it maybe just a smiple code

 

eg

vote.php?match={MATCH_ID}&winner={WINNER_NAME_OR_ID}

 

and in the vote.php you want to add some cookies to stop flooding as this type will give another vote by just refreshing the page !!

 

this will be like what laffin said above, with thanks to him

 

 

personnally, I would like to prefere AJAX, safer and more interactive, they may click on the fighter, then a new space will shows with loading ( or animated gif ) and then loads the result directly in the same place.. to give you an example, just see the poll in this site, there's no need to refresh the page or load another page, in the same page the vote & results too, if the user clicked, then the links will be replaced by poll results so he wont be able to vote again unless he refreshed the page, but you can use cookies here to see if this guy voted before or not

 

http://blog.se-nse.net/ - poll is in the left side second from top...

[laffin]

Agreed Ajax is great for these type of situations. No redirction to another script, and can get results.