Recommend a Voting/Polling/Survey Script?

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I am in need of a polling/voting/survey script that will do the following:

  1. Allow multiple questions in the poll/survey, or allow multiple polls/surveys to be open at once and displayed on one page,
  2. Allow multiple answer selections for each question
  3. Provide some sort of vote blocking control (one vote per day or per IP or whatever)
  4. Present the data in an easy to read votes per option/percentage manner

Now, for the penultimate requirement: It should be PHP (but I will take CGI/Perl) and easy enough for a complete idiot (that would be) to install and set up on my site.

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would you consider a hosted option?

there used to be oodles kicking around, but I can't put my finger on one lately.

http://www.hotscripts.com/cgi-bin/search.cgi?bool=AND&query=poll&catid=2 has quite a few that you install yourself. Check for scripts with high ratings and a lot of votes.

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I'm actually "hosting" the poll for a friend who was getting far too frustrated to deal with it herself any longer. But I might consider the hosted option and do the setup for her simply because the script I am currently using is working great until the time comes to display the results.

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I downloaded a few from Hotscripts, they seem to be reasonable to set up. Did you want a flat file or MySQL system? Both exist.

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I'd be happy with either a flat file or MySQL.

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check with your host, a lot of hosts dont allow flat file db these days

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Busy wrote: check with your host, a lot of hosts dont allow flat file db these days

Really? I've never heard that before... Why's that then?

Suzanne's picture

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free-php.net and scriptme.com both have polls that look decent and have good reviews. Check them out to see if they meet your needs.

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because they take up a lot of resources and can slow servers down, mostly by badly written scripts.

I'm sure there was a thread about it some months ago (probably a year ago) but can't find it

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