Polls

[Johnathan]

Hey anyone here kno how to have a html poll on my site so users can select and show the result?

[bobbyblades]

your going to need a place to store the results (flat file or database) then read to or write to the file (php), a flat file would be the best bet since the data isn't large enough to warrant a db.after reading the file print out the results with a server side language in html. thats what I would do but I have been wrong before LOL, there should be tutorials on the web of how to do it in detail. and probably even free scripts as well

[flabbyrabbit]

Either search google for "free poll scripts" or post this in the php + mysql forum.

Flabby Rabbit

[Johnathan]

i tried googleing it and i take it then theres no way of usin html for it?

[bobbyblades]

the data for the results of the poll must be kept in persistent storage, a file, a database, a cookie, HTML is a placeholder for static or dynamic data, but it can't manipulate that data on it's own. you must get the data from somewhere a cookie for instance

[flabbyrabbit]

If you only want to use html, then you will have to embed someone elses code. Check this out: http://www.bravenet.com/webtools/minipoll/ it helped me before i learnt php myself, it is actually very good.

Flabby Rabbit