Javascript Polls

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Javascript Polls

or something else..

dauction

12:22 am on May 17, 2004 (gmt 0)

What's the easist way to create polls for a website.. the very basic ..

Any cut and and options?

MichaelBluejay

4:07 am on May 17, 2004 (gmt 0)

Depends on what you mean by "easiest". The *quickest* way to get up and running is to use a simple <FORM> that emails you someone's vote, then you count them by hand. Works great if you don't expect many responses. I've done many, many informal surveys of my users this way.

If you want automatic tabulating of the ballots then there are a bunch of free PHP and Perl scripts that can do that for you, if you know how to install them. Use the search engines to find them.

No matter how you do it, dealing with ballot stuffing can be a problem, and the more bullet-proof you want to make the system the more complex it is. It would also probably be beyond the scope of this thread....

-MBJ-

dcrombie

12:02 pm on May 17, 2004 (gmt 0)

You can't run a poll using (client-side) JavaScript because it runs only on the client's machine and not on the server.

wavebird23

7:39 pm on May 17, 2004 (gmt 0)

I would recommend votations for free web polls.

dauction

9:00 pm on May 17, 2004 (gmt 0)

Thaks everyone.. as far as votations goes.. I keep looking at remotely hosted like votations..but wondering if using these remotely hosted programs will cause any ranking problems at google? How's, that for paranoid!

I realize I would be giving up one link to votations and passing on a little PR in return for the poll script other than that any thing I would be missing as far as google goes?

MichaelBluejay

5:02 am on May 18, 2004 (gmt 0)

Sure you can have a poll with JavaScript -- if what you're doing is having JavaScript email you the ballot so you can tabulate in manually. :)

On remotely-hosted solutions, I wouldn't be concerned with Google as much as I would with privacy. I can guarantee that I won't give my users' email addresses to spammers, but can I still make that same guarantee if I'm turning my users over to a third party? Maybe the other company doesn't collect email addresses, but in that case then their voting system would probably be easy to abuse with ballot-stuffing. Everything's a tradeoff....

-MBJ-