Nobody has really helped me out at Rons Guide for this question so I will ask it here instead. At Rons Guide there is a tutorial about creating flat file polls.
It almost all works but I don't know where to edit one thing. Please have a look at the page below and either answer my question here or there - my name at Rons Guide is 'James'.

http://ronsguide.com/index.php?page=...fpoll&start=70

Please take a few moments to read though what I have written there and look at Page 9 too. Please note that the link I provided there is no longer active.

Thank you.


- James

hi James

It usually makes me ponder that when people release their so called "scripts" that they don't test it completely inside and out, and rarely consider those people that may not be very experienced in PHP!

Anyway, Ron is trying to tell you to change the "action" (or the taret) of where the information from the form should be parsed to. David has said you need to direct it to vote.php so lets do that.

<form action="vote.php" method="post">

Put that there instead of the $_SERVER['PHP_SELF']; (which by the way is a predefined variable and returns the path of the PHP script calling upon it, but we don't need it!)

This should work out fine, provided that vote.php and index.php (i assume that's where the voting form is) are in the same directory on your server.

Hope thats works out for ya! Post back either way.

Thank you very much indeed for that fast and very helpful reply! I got it working, however one last thing... When someone votes in the poll, there is eparate results page. According to Rons Guide, he uses practically the same code as the one in his tutorial apart from adding some comments code. How can I get it so that when you click 'vote', instead of having a results page, to have the poll reloaded with the results in it.?

For a proper example vote in my poll and Rons Guide poll and see the difference in how the results are displayed? I don't want a results page - I'd like it how Ron does it.

http://www.rcthaven.com/staff.php


Thanks!

James

It's actually more complex than you think to do that. You'd have to set a cookie to say that they've voted (i'm not sure if Ron has already done this in his code) and then put in a case argument in the code that usually shows the poll choices - to instead show the results in the box, if the cookie has been set.

Try looking around for some tutorials on cookies, are you familiar with case arguments (if-then-else) ??

Yes, I rcently bought a 'PHP teach yourself book' and am now familiair with those case arguments.


James