Configuration
PHP and mySql required

This script requires that you have PHP installed on your server and access to a mySql database.
Files included in package

* ajax-poller.html = Main HTML file. Contains some HTML code and some PHP code. You will find the code for the poller between the comments

<!-- START OF POLLER -->

and

<!-- END OF POLLER -->

# ajax-poller-cast-vote.php = This file is called by ajax when someone casts a vote. This file updates the database and returns vote results as XML back to ajax-poller.html
# dbConnect.php = File included by ajax-poller and ajax-poller-cast-vote.php. This file connect the scripts to your database
# js/ajax-poller.js = Main Javascript file for this script.
# js/ajax.js = Ajax (SACK library).
# css/ajax-poller.css = Cascading style sheet for the poller
# images/* = images used by the script
# createDbTables.php = Installation file. This file creates the default database tables you need for this script. Just put in connection and data and execute the file in your browser

Installation

This is a step by step guide on how to configure this script

1. Modify dbConnect.php. Insert your dbName, username and password. You may have to create a new database.
2. Edit createDbTables.php. Insert your dbName, username and password and execute the script in your web browser
3. Now, try to open ajax-poller.html in your web browser

Javascript variables

You will find some variables at the top of ajax-poller.js which you could modify:

var serverSideFile = 'ajax-poller-cast-vote-php';
var voteLeftImage = 'images/graph_left_1.gif';
var voteRightImage = 'images/graph_right_1.gif';
var voteCenterImage = 'images/graph_middle_1.gif';

var graphMaxWidth = 120; // It will actually be a little wider than this because of the rounded image at the left and right
var graphMinWidth = 15; // Minimum size of graph
var pollScrollSpeed = 5; // Lower = faster var useCookiesToRememberCastedVotes = true;

* serverSideFile = Path to the PHP file that is called by ajax.
* voteLeftImage, voteRightImage and voteCenterImage = Path to the graph images
* graphMaxWidth = Max width of graph
* graphMinWidth = Min width of graph
* pollScrollSpeed = Speed of animation. Lower value = faster animation
* useCookiesToRememberCastedVotes = If set to true, use cookie to prevent user from casting more than one vote

Demo: http://www.dhtmlgoodies.com/scripts/ajax-poller/ajax-poller.html
Download: http://www.dhtmlgoodies.com/scripts/ajax-poller/ajax-poller.zip
Source: http://www.dhtmlgoodies.com/scripts/ajax-poller/ajax-poller.html

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