dvote: A poll voting system based on .ini files

Recommend this page to a friend!

Download .zip

Info

Screenshots

View files (8)

Download .zip

Reputation

Support forum

Blog

Links

Ratings				Unique User Downloads		Download Rankings
Not enough user ratings				Total: 1,101		All time: 3,411 This week: 47

Version		License				Categories
`dvote` 1.0.0		GNU General Publi...				Content management

Description

Author

Alessandro Rosa

This class can be used to implement a poll voting system.

It can present the poll form, process the votes and present the results.

The class uses a configuration file in a .ini file to define a poll question and the possible answers.

The total number of poll votes and each answer vote count is stored in the same .ini file that is also updated when an user votes.

The class uses cookies to detect whether an user has already voted. The message to show when an user votes again is also configurable in the .ini file.

Innovation Award

June 2006
Number 9

Prize: One subscription to the PHP Magazine

Surveys are a very useful resource that appears in many sites.

Many sites keep track of survey data and vote count in databases.

This class provides an alternative solution that uses a file in the .ini format rather than databases to store the survey data.

Manuel Lemos

Alessandro Rosa

Name:	Alessandro Rosa `<contact>`
Classes:	10 packages by Alessandro Rosa
Country:	Italy
Age:	49
All time rank:	290	9 in Italy
Week rank:	295	10 in Italy

Innovation award

Nominee: 3x

Details

DVOTE class (PHP)

This class implements a voting management system.
All settings can be achieved from a initialization
file (in this example, 'vote.ini').

There's some flexibility in the implementation, so
one may set one's custom entries, either in global
settings.

Usually one sets up:
* the number of entries;
* the entries labels themselves;
* all votes numbers to 0.

One should see both example files index.php and
vote.php to understand how this class works.

Screenshots

Files

File	Role	Description
`dvote.php`	Class	class source
`index.php`	Example	example code
`ini_fn.php`	Aux.	auxiliary functions
`ini_manager.php`	Class	auxiliary class for management
`readme.txt`	Data	some text about the class
`vote.css`	Data	css style for the example
`vote.ini`	Data	initialization file for the voting management
`vote.php`	Example	example code