Online Poll / DRK 4 Pollster
You may have noticed the online poll on the right of the page. This is actually the Flash interface to the Pollster sample application included on DRK 4.
Pollster includes the following:
- A Flash Interface to place on your website.
- Complete Admin back-end written in ColdFusion
- A Dreamweaver extension that makes it easy to insert the poll into your web site.
The Poll has quite a few features including:
- Complete admin back-end.
- Limit votes per user.
- View results in HTML.
- Export raw results to Excel.
- Enabled and Disable Polls.
- Supports up to 5 answers.
- Complete source code for Flash interface is included.
- Complete source code for ColdFusion back-end included.
- ActionScript API and Library for creating your own Flash interfaces.
The Flash interface uses the Pie Chart component from the Flash Charting Components Set 2, also included on DRK 4.
Finally, there is code that protects against users abusing the poll (by mass voting). However, it is not full proof.
You can view an image of the admin interface here.
You can find more information on the Pollster sample application here.
You can find more information on DRK 4 here.
Comments
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MattPollster looks great! Do you need to be running a CF website to use it or can you create/post polls using ASP as well?
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mike chambersYes. The backend is written in ColdFusion and requires ColdFusion MX. mike chambers mesh@macromedia.com
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RickMike, looks very impressive, looking forward to testing it. One addition security feature you might consider for the next version, or if i have time, I'll code it, is a validate form submission. Like Yahoo does with "type the word you see in the image". This with IP tracking makes the poll almost hack proof. Rick
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gwintFunctionality is cool. Design needs some tweaking-- right now it looks like an HTML form circa 1996-- kerning and leading is off. also, the text shouldn't be selectable, you should be able to click on it as you would the radio buttons.
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mike chambersFYI, the complete source for the entire app is inculded, so you could easily re-design the flash interface. mike chambers mesh@macromedia.com
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Gyu KwonPollster is looking good! Are there any limitation to use foriegn characters, such as korean or chinese?
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Bob FranzCan you hide the results untill after the user answers the question. The results are not going to be correct if they can see how everyone else is voting.
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Have had a play and I think it's a great little app. You might consider wrapping the question text on the answers tab -- cos most of the time you can't work out what the questions were. Have integrated this into FarCry CMS for those that are remotely interested (http://blog.daemon.com.au/archives/000179.html)
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the links to the source, et al, appear to be broken. Is Pollster still available somewhere?
