Unlimited choices for poll

[edlomon]

ok i seen this on XMB and i think PhpBB does it too,a option where you can set as many choices for a poll as u want.i know i wish it was true when i wanted to make a 10 option poll.ne 1 that makes it plz try to make a YaBB Pak version.

[groundup]

by design, you can't do this. It would require a lot of changing and you might as well wait for it to be in 2.0 since I doubt people will do such a large mod

[tdodnz]

largemod no way you just get the person to put it in a textbox like option1, option2 then you just explode it and put it in the database

[David]

largemod no way you just get the person to put it in a textbox like option1, option2 then you just explode it and put it in the database

The point is it requires some db changes.

[tdodnz]

i don'[t think so, but ill check it out before i start saying your wrong  

[Gobalopper]

No it will need changes as currently the db hardcodes the poll to 7 I think?
A better way, if you wanted to do this, would be have another table to store poll option entries that would refer back to the poll they belong too,

[klumy]

It would also be a nice feature, if you can make multiple vote choices like in vBullettin.

[edlomon]

couldnt u make the poll a text area like XMB? or make it that if u want another option it pops a new option until ur done like PhpBB.

[Wiziwig]

I was about to post a need for this myself, I'm currently attempting to modify the code for this..  but, only for my 1.4.1 version at the moment.. hope someone else will volunteer for this..

So far I got the data correct, and multiple choices correct and the ability to write to data the choices and so on.. The format of the code in display.php is a tad bit more on the sophisticated side than my ability to understand how to re-write it to display the data in the format desired.  I'll keep trying, but it really would be nice If I could get a helping hand on that one last part of the entire puzzle.. Once that is done we'll have a functional multiple choice questionaire vote option..  that should work with both 1.4 and 1.5..

[[Unknown]]

Well, here's how I do mine.... it might work for YaBB SE:

TEXT column:
choice 1~5|choice 2~67|choice 3|choice 4~3

In essence, it's (choice name with tildas filtered out)~(###)|(choice name with tildas filtered out)~(###)|...|(choice name with tildas filtered out)~(###)

Then I just explode, and it works perfectly.

Of course, this WOULD mean making the db store just one TEXT for polls.

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[Wiziwig]

Not knowing exactly who you are.. But I did allready get the db to contain under one table the multiples. Simply added question2, question3, and question4 to the table as tinytext.  What I have so far will enter, contain, and display the results..

But in display.php this whole thing with variably assigning $pollHtml to display the results as well as the html table format is a puzzler. between the math statement for ($i = 1; $i <= 16; $i++) and the variable $pollHtml I will have to learn how to break those down.. have pollHtml display the first question, have the $i do four and display results, have pollHtml display the second question, have $i do the next four and display the results .. so on up to 16.

Well, here's how I do mine.... it might work for YaBB SE:

TEXT column:
choice 1~5|choice 2~67|choice 3|choice 4~3

In essence, it's (choice name with tildas filtered out)~(###)|(choice name with tildas filtered out)~(###)|...|(choice name with tildas filtered out)~(###)

Then I just explode, and it works perfectly.

Of course, this WOULD mean making the db store just one TEXT for polls.

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[[Unknown]]

Hmmm... not sure.  Who am I?

I would just explode as I said and use foreach... as so:

$pollchoices = explode("|", $pollTEXTdatathing);

$i = 0;
foreach($pollchoices as $pollchoice)
{
   list($answer, $num) = explode('~', $pollchoice);
   print '[ ]' . $answer;
}

Etcetera...

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[Wiziwig]

Um yeah. ok,. sure. clear as freekin mudd. Would you coderzs know how to speek anything other than geek.. you know,. for us little less knowledged folks who does just enough to make something seem more like er.. common sense.. ? naa. prolly not..  I know how hard it is to explain this stuff.. i have to do that all the time as a teacher...

Hmmm... not sure.  Who am I?

I would just explode as I said and use foreach... as so:

$pollchoices = explode("|", $pollTEXTdatathing);

$i = 0;
foreach($pollchoices as $pollchoice)
{
   list($answer, $num) = explode('~', $pollchoice);
   print '[ ]' . $answer;
}

Etcetera...

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[[Unknown]]

Um yeah. ok,. sure. clear as freekin mudd. Would you coderzs know how to speek anything other than geek.. you know,. for us little less knowledged folks who does just enough to make something seem more like er.. common sense.. ? naa. prolly not..  I know how hard it is to explain this stuff.. i have to do that all the time as a teacher...

Guilty as charged.  I really thought that was clear. (although I realize it wasn't very...)

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[Wiziwig]

Oh well. I almost have something here.. Might not be exactly as wished.. hard coded four choices, four questions each choice. But it's a start.. Someone else more talented at this than I could either help or take the project over and make it better.. I figured out the display function on this..

update. I give up. nearly had it. To many barriers for me for the moment.. considering that I work for a living, I dont have time to decypher geek speak.

Guilty as charged.  I really thought that was clear. (although I realize it wasn't very...)

-[Unknown]