Polls are they enabled?

DaSilva

Are the polls enabled? if so how do you create them?

smoke.me.a.kipper

aparently only Opera browser users can create polls.

DaSilva

Im willing to wait! Will it be fixed for IE & Netscape?

Spunog UIE

you were takin the piss yes? only opera?/

MiCr0

i started an admin query on polls a week-ish ago

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?s=&threadid=31491

no soln offered though - non-opera users are just missing the screen

Bard

I've done plenty.

With opera.



5.12.


nyahhh to you users of inferior browsers

corkie

I am using IE6 and I have just setup a poll
on another vbulletin forum

see Cork Wan forum

Note I am just a user on the other forum no special status.

Best regards,
John

P.S. If the feature is disable here on purpose fine! But please
don't make up fib's or excuse's for it not working. Thank you!

Kraken

Since when does Corkie have the rights to boss around admins etc..... All hail the might Corkie

Oh and Corkie Bahhhh to you

tubedogg

There is something wrong with the custom HTML the admins have used if only users of Opera can create polls. The stock vBulletin HTML works fine in all major browsers.

Bard

Originally posted by corkie

P.S. If the feature is disable here on purpose fine! But please
don't make up fib's or excuse's for it not working. Thank you!

It ISN'T disabled, - either on purpose or otherwise. I know this because they WORK FOR ME.

Nobody's making up fibs or excuses for it not working. For all I've seen from personal experience, it's working fine... - then again, you and others say it doesn't work for you.

The admins don't seem to know exactly why its not working for some people and they're trying to sort it out. That's no reason to accuse them of lying.

DeVore

Indeed corkie, I dont know you and frankly I couldnt care less if you thought I was lying to you. *miffed*

It isnt working in some browsers and we are looking into it. However we also have lives and jobs so we're tackling problems in priority order. This isnt a top priority one and takes up a fair bit of time. We'll get it when we have the time to look into it proper.

Note: much thanks to tubedog for giving us a lead on the problem. (afaik) Tubedog is one of the people behind the vB project and gets my respect for producing a great piece of programming.

DeV.

tubedogg

I actually have an idea of what might be causing this and I don't think it has anything to do with the HTML.

Go to
http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/admin/index.php?action=phpinfo
(note: you'll need admin priveleges to do this). Login, and look at the resulting page - you should see the following lines somewhere on the page:
track_vars
register_globals
Each of them should have a value - either on or off. Let me know what they say.

Tubedog is one of the people behind the vB project and gets my respect for producing a great piece of programming.

Aw, shucks. I am not a developer, but have done some hacks and an a moderator at the support forums.

DeVore

Tube_Dog: I couldnt find Track_Vars but I found a these:


VARIABLE SETTING DEFAULT
track_errors Off Off
register_globals On On

Which seems ok... (remember, I'm a moron!)

DeV.

DS

I was just about to post a topic about this until I scrolled down and saw this one. It's pissing me off though.
register_globals is a PHP setting relating to form data and query strings.
If you have a textbox called "name", and regiser_globals is on, a global variable named $name will be available when the script in the action property of the form is executed. The same is true when script.php is accessed like so: script.php?name=bob
However if register_globals is off, the data contained in "name" must be accessed through one of 2 associative arrays, $HTTP_POST_VARS["name"] and $HTTP_GET_VARS["name"]
Many servers have register_globals set to off to avoid a fairly significant security hole, but if the problem stems from this, it would affect the entire functionality of the board and not just the poll system. I await the solution with intent

corkie

Originally posted by DeVore
Indeed corkie, I dont know you and frankly I couldnt care less if you thought I was lying to you. *miffed*

This isnt a top priority one ..........

DeV.

I never said you where lying other's twisted my words!
Yes I know it is not an important matter.
Other's where giving the impression it depended on the
browser you are using! Guess what I have even tried using
opera to post a poll and guess what it didn't work in that
for me.

So it is luck of the draw some can others cannot!

I was the beard guy at the 'Blackout' that reminded you of
the 'Spin Bug'.

Since when does Corkie have the rights to boss around admins etc..... All hail the might Corkie

Bow down before me or bare the weight of my wrath! :rolleyes:

dahamsta

Tom, try removing enctype="multipart/form-data" in FORM tags in the newpost, newreply & editpost templates. It'll break file uploads, but see what happens anyway.

adam