Poll system

[jfreak53]

Ok guys, I have a polling system right now that was free, but I want to add another polling system that allows me to use pics and make a poll on pics, but I cannot find one, I would like it to be free but I m willing to pay money if it is necessary, could someone help me find this?

[Dalsor]

Have you checked hotscripts.com? They have a very large collection of scripts that should do what you're asking. If not, are you using some type of image gallery, if so which one? There may be a plugin available you can use. know there are image galleries that allow you to vote on images that members submit. Is that what you need?

[jfreak53]

Well yes I am using an image gallery but the problem is I want people to be able to use it without being members would this be possible, I use coppermine

[Fou-Lu]

I'm uncertain of the code, but its always possible to do it for anyone. Personally, I'd use a sign in method for it, only because if you don't it will allow everyone to vote over and over again, leaving you with a control of only their IP Address, which is unreliable to use as a control source.
Are you sure you want this to be uncontrolled? It would be a simple alteration or creation to do...

[Dalsor]

Coppermine does not appear to have the poll/voting type of functionality, so if you want to stick with coppermine you'd have to alter the code yourself. There are other systems that do have it, such as Gallery.

http://gallery.menalto.com/index.php

[jfreak53]

Ok thanks guys for all your help, In found one I liked called b3 comment poll, but two problems, one this is CGI, so I probably need to post this into the CGI forum, but I will try here since this is all one subject maybe I can find something. Two, I need to take the final file for said poll, and parse if to find out who is the winner then parse another file to find the image for that winner to be able to display it, all this at run time of said paid, I would like to do it with PHP instead of CGI, but I don't know if PHP can parse a CGI file, although the file it is parsing is a plain text file, and from that one plain text file is two things, one if the percentage of each item and two is the link to the image of said poll item, I would need to parse this and find the one with the highest percentage and then display it's image elsewhere on said page, here is the text file:


me is cool.?|1||joel|100|1||joel2|0|0||joel3|0|0||


this is the breakdown as I see it, the first thing is the name of the poll, then the first number is for this, then on is the poll items, after each item is the percentage of that item then after that comes the number of votes it has received. Thanks for any help in this matter.