Voting System

[Anon]

hi, i want to integrate a voting capability into a file + descriptions system

if there's any good voting script tuto's or examples out there, post them..

I'm able to vote ... however, I'm not formating my output number correctly,

also i want to setup a method so that the LOGGED IN USER can only vote 1 time ( via IP or cookie or user table in DB )

using php + mysql of course..

[jsagara]

Search for "PHP Voting system" (without the quotes) on Google. A ton of stuff comes up.

[Anon]

i\'ve written my own that works well however i\'m trying to make it so each user can only vote once for an item...

so i\'m storing a cookie called votedata..
which is a serilazed array of:
[$d.\"_\".$id]

$d = type of item
$id = # of item

and then i\'m setting

votedata[\'type_id\'] = $thiervote

then reserializing it
and re-storing it into the cookie.

code

if( isset($HTTP_COOKIE_VARS[\'votedata\'])) {
	$votedata = isset( $HTTP_COOKIE_VARS[\'votedata\'] ) ? unserialize(stripslashes($HTTP_COOKIE_VARS[\'votedata\'])) : \"\";
	$voteid = ($d.\"_\".$id);
	$votedata[\"\'\".$voteid.\"\'\"] = ($myvote); // sets the var votedata[\'map_2\']=10; for example
	$serialized_votedata = serialize($votedata);
	setcookie(\'votedata\', $serialized_votedata, $date, \"/\", \"$cookiedomain\", false);
} else {
	$votedata = Array();
	$voteid = ($d.\"_\".$id);
	$votedata[\"\'\".$voteid.\"\'\"] = ($myrank); // sets the var votedata[\'map_2\']=10; for example
	$serialized_votedata = serialize($votedata);
}

if any php GURUs would like to clean this code up so my data is in proper format and i can pull it properly It would be very appreciated

thanks 😉
-Ace

[jsagara]

How much are you paying? 😛

[Anon]

actually learning .. 😉 i get the stuff there, the problem i run into is it's not a format i can use or it's improper format..

and thus i cant/dont know how to pull it properly.. it's 2 lines of code essentially