Trying to get an online poll

[SouthNZoneFan]

Hey guys,

Perhaps one of you that works at godaddy.com or some place can help me.

I have a little website for family and I have been trying to put a darn poll on the thing forever.

I don't know anything about PHP or MySQL. Can one of you guys talk me through it.

I use godaddy and have a MySQL accoutn set up but nothing as far as in the database yet.

ANy help would be great...

 

[bankybruce]

it all depends on what program you are using to create your pages or if you are doing your own scripting. most programs like fronpage and dreamweaver have things built in to do that. let me know what you use and i can find some info on how to create it. do you have a account with godaddy? because we do have some things here that can help you with that, let me know

 

[SouthNZoneFan]

Hey,
THanks, I do have a godaddy account and I also use dreamweaver.

Any help you can provide would be greatly appreciated!

James

 

[jw7]

OK, I'll try to help out a bit, although there are much better experts on the board than me.

PHP is software loaded on your server that allows web pages to run more complex code than HTML provides. It's a programming language.

MySQL is database software that allows you to store, retrieve, and update tables in a relational database.

For example, this site runs on PHP code using a MySQL database.

For a simple poll, I would not use a database - just a flat text file.

Before you begin, you need to know this:

• How to upload files to your webspace
• How to create/delete folders on your webspace
• How to change permissions (CHMOD) on your directories and files
• When to upload in ASCII or Binary mode (Text files - .htm, .txt, .php, etc - need to be uploaded in ASCII mode. Image files - .gif, .jpg, .jpeg, .ico need to be uploaded in binary mode.)

Once you do this, do a google search on "php poll script" and you can find freeware to do this. It will set up poll code and tell you how to insert it into your web page.

 

[bankybruce]

Here are some links and walkthroughs of everything you could need to create your online poll, just make sure you know your username and password for you database. If you have anymore queston let me know.

http://ced.ncsu.edu/ltrc/studio/workshops/inform3/dreamweaver.html

http://ced.ncsu.edu/ltrc/studio/workshops/inform3/

http://dmxzone.com/ShowDetail.asp?NewsId=458

http://webmonkey.wired.com/webmonkey/backend/databases/

 

[SouthNZoneFan]

Here are some links and walkthroughs of everything you could need to create your online poll, just make sure you know your username and password for you database. If you have anymore queston let me know.

http://ced.ncsu.edu/ltrc/studio/workshops/inform3/dreamweaver.html

http://ced.ncsu.edu/ltrc/studio/workshops/inform3/

http://dmxzone.com/ShowDetail.asp?NewsId=458

http://webmonkey.wired.com/webmonkey/backend/databases/

Thanks, I will give it a shot tonight!

 

[SouthNZoneFan]

This is a bit over my head! Is there any easier way that anyone knows of?

THXS

 

[MikeOnTheMic]

This is a bit over my head! Is there any easier way that anyone knows of?

THXS

Maybe try going to

www.sourceforge.net

or

www.freshmeat.net

and search for a poll program. You can probably find one and download the full source and documentation on installing it on your website. That way you can have something up and running while you learn php/ mySQL.

 

[SouthNZoneFan]

I have a basic quiz all set up, but I cannot get godaddy to let me change the CHMD to 646? That isn't even to have someone write it, just read it. I cannot change it to save my life. Any suggestions from the peps that work there?

Thanks Mike on Mic, I will try those next....