Total Commander

I just wrote my first mod for phpbb to allow multiple answers in a poll! To enable this feature, just put a $ sign as the first character for the poll question, e.g.

$Which type of plugins do you use?

I chose this method because having a checkbox for this option would have required a lot of changes to the board, and even to the database! With my solution, it's quite a simple change.

I make this a test poll so you can try out this feature yourself.

That's great! It works perfectly! Thanks!

you're a coding guru

**edited**
a typo in such a small sentence! damn I need coffee

Works like a charm Thanks!

Thanks! Btw, yesterday I added some more code which also shows how many users participated in the poll in addition to the number of votes.

Christian, Are you planning to post the MOD source somewhere? I'm planning to use it for my friends forum. thx.

I can if you want, but in the meantime there has been an official mod released which is much better than mine - check the phpbb site! If you still want to use my mod, let me know and I will post it here.

Christian, Are you referring to "Multivote_Mod" at http://www.phpbb.com/phpBB/viewtopic.php?t=79099&highlight= http://users.otenet.gr/~vil1st/multivote_mod/, I tried it once does not seem to work Properly with MSSQL or are you referring someother mod ? if not please post the post mod.
Thanks in advance.

Yes, I was referring to the multi-vote mod, and yes, it requires changes to the database! Mine does not require changes to the database, but it's not as powerful - you cannot set how many answers you want.

I have put my mod here: multiple_answers_vote.txt

Note that I'm using phpBB 2.0.4, so it may not work with other versions (but there should be no problem to adapt it).

Thanks a lot, Its working great..

F.Y.I : In version 2.0.6 of phpBB this line

$template->set_filenames(array(
'pollbox' => 'viewtopic_poll_ballot.tpl')
);

appears twice in viewtopic.php, I had to replace the second instance of this line to get the MOD working.

Thx again.

Btw, is the update 2.0.4 -> 2.0.6 difficult? I didn't yet make it because the forum is working very well, and I don't want to risk to break it. I did add some security patches, though.

I'm not aware as I was runnning version 2.0.5 and the upgrade to 2.0.6 from 2.0.5 was damn simple, I managed to do it in 5 mins despite having 3 MODS.

2PeaceMaker
Why do you reply to a thread from 2003?

I think he had it on his todo list