Poll Plugin for WordPress

Hi, a few points.

The installation script, almost certainly, is failing because you haven’t uploaded a fixed version of wp_settings.php.

Secondly there are a few bugs that could do with addressing.

– Slashes aren’t dealt with very well. Please refer to http://uk.php.net/manual/en/function.get-magic-quotes-gpc.php so as to only add slashes if it hasn’t already been done!
– And remove slashes from input boxes [shown after giving a poll name including quotation marks or apostrophes]
– And finally, as of bugs I’ve currently come across, please put up a polite message if no poll is found 🙂 Rather than a somewhat unattractive MySQL error.

Cheers, looking forward to using it, will post again if I manage to successfully fix the above for my site.

i had the same cookies problem – its not really a great method .. but then there aren’t any good methods for polls (?), other than insisting everyone signs up.

personally i’ve uninstalled the addon for the moment and will return to it when i have more time.

For cookie support see my post here:
http://wordpress.org/support/topic/34555

Hope that helps.

I think there’s probably a lot more people that have it working then are posting “it’s not working” in this thread. I had no difficulty setting it up or using it. The ONLY thing that got in the way was my wp template layout ……
You should try it caipirina ….

It looks like the header error is because of a conflict in the header.php file sending information before the setcookie(); command in poll.php. Apparently setcookie(); technically sends headers to the client computer similarly to normal http headers. If any content (i.e. “echo” commands or text) is sent to the client before setcookie(); is used, an error occurs.

There are a couple ways to fix this, but a quick [and sloppy] hack is to edit the index.php file in your template and change:

<?php get_header(); ?>
<?php vote_poll(); ?>

to

<?php ob_start();
get_header();
vote_poll();
ob_end_flush();
?>

It fixes both the error that you’re seeing and also allows the cookie to function properly. In programming terms, it would be much better to re-code the polls.php and get the setcookie(); function to work earlier before any of the content is sent to the client. The ob_start(); and ob_end_flush(); basically creates a buffer for php to store all the information until the headers are fully established and then send the data to the client at once. So long as there isn’t a tremendous amount of stuff in the headers.php and poll.php files, everything should be ok.

If anyone knows how to successfully re-code the polls.php file, any help would be appreciated (so that the hack isn’t required) 🙂

This poll works GREAT on my site, but the formatting of the archives are all messed up–they skew WAY to the left and right of the page.

I’ve been scouring the wp-polls.php file, but can’t seem to find what’s causing this behavior. Any ideas?

You can see it at http://www.thechristianguitarist.com/wp-polls.php