A php plugin?

[Perad]

I have the following task.

 

Allow users to put code on their website which will show a poll.

 

What I need the script to do is the following...

 

-> Sit on the users homepage.

-> Connect to my server and request poll details

-> When form is submitted send option to my form, request poll results.

-> Show poll results.

 

I am thinking about using iframes.

 

<iframe src="http://site.com/poll.php?id=..."></iframe>

 

Now, would this work with iframes?

 

Whether it would or not does anyone know a better method which isn't iframe dependent?

 

[uniflare]

if you have a quality server im sure you could use sockets or url fopen() or similar to get all the information from a remote server.

 

eg on remote server have page called "poll_deails.php"

then use something similar to fopen("http://www.webserver.com/poll_details.php?detailsfor=thiswebsite");

 

then you would get a string you could explode into an array for all the seperate variables etc...

 

you could also add in poll_details.php:

 

if($_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR'] != "website_ip_address"){ exit("Not Allowed"); }

 

 

hope this helps,

[Perad]

The problem is that the remote server may not support php and this needs to work on all servers whether they support php or not.

 

Thats why I was thinking about iframes.

[MadTechie]

what about create an Dynamic Image to show the results

 

<?php
$row['votes'] = 0;
//mysql stuff returns $row['votes']
$im  = imagecreatetruecolor(150, 30);
$bgc = imagecolorallocate($im, 255, 255, 255);
$tc  = imagecolorallocate($im, 0, 0, 0);
imagefilledrectangle($im, 0, 0, 150, 30, $bgc);
imagestring($im, 1, 5, 5, "the votes are .{$row['votes']}.. ", $tc);
header("Content-Type: image/jpeg");
imagejpeg($im);
?>

 

<img src="www.mysite.com/votes.php">

 

of course your need to clean it up...

[uniflare]

my method does not mention that php is required on a remote server, it was just an example, you could easily use html/asp etc, or even flat files or exe's...

 

how is your remote server going to "feed" the information sp that your website can grab it?

[uniflare]

ok i misunderstood your post...

 

so you could use images as madtechie posted, you could use iframes as you suggested.

 

the image route can also be cached to prevent people from spamming images. images would be my first option....

[MadTechie]

of course passing a parameter to it would be the same as a get

and allowing a vote via click would probably just be a hyperlink