Re: Writing a Polling App - Need Some Advice

Somebody suggested downloading a pre-made script that does what you want but I say that's no way to program. Simple scripts like this one clear the mind and are good experience. Besides nobody ever got good at programming by using pre-made scripts. ;-) Okay down to basics. You can break up the problem into logical steps. The way I would do this is have two tables. The first table stores the poll_ID, name (or title), start_date, end_date. The second table stores poll_ID, question, hits. If you need to prevent users from inputing more than one answer you can store a third table containing, poll_ID, IP. Your only redundency is the poll_ID value. This is your associating value that binds the poll data together. In the first table this should be your Primary Key and set it as an auto-incrementing unsigned integer. In the second and third tables set it to integer and leave it alone. You might add a separate auto-incrementing value to act as the primary key. So hopefully this gets you started. If you need help with anything else let me know. -Kevin ----- Original Message ----- From: "Monty" <monty3@hotmail.com> To: <php-general@lists.php.net> Sent: Thursday, November 21, 2002 12:30 PM Subject: [PHP] Writing a Polling App - Need Some Advice > I'm writing a little polling app for a website, they want to run them each > week. They will be the simple "choose your favorite" kind of multiple-choice > polls. If anyone has ever written one of these, what is the best way to set > up the poll questions? Do I store each question in a separate table and link > them to a central "Poll" record? Or do you store the questions all in one > record? Or is there an even better way to do this? > > Any suggestions or pointers would be appreciated! Thanks. > > Monty > > > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > >