Polling System Part 1

Creating PHP & MySQL Files

CIS 254

Polling System

• Create Database

• Upload Table information through PHP

• Creating Require() Files

• Add Polls

• Load Poll Data

• Vote For– Setting Cookies

Create Database

• Using Telnet and MySQL Admin– Create DB INTpoll– Set Permissions

• GRANT for DB and TABLE

Upload Table information through PHP

• In A PHP File, – Create connection to database – Create table in mysql_query statement– Insert tQable data in mysql_query statement– One statement per INSERT statement– Use echo mysql_error for troubleshooting

Creating Require() Files

• Allow you to insert information from a outside file into a current file.– Useful for headers, footers and commonly

required variables.

• Create Connect.php

• Use REQUIRE() for connection variables

• Commonly called includes

Add Polls

• File used to input poll questions into system

• Poll questions come from database

• See file addpolls.php

Load Poll Data

• Loads Questions into Flash according to selection. – See loadpolldata.php

Vote For

• Check for previous votes– Using a cookie

• Update record with votes

• Send poll data back to flash– See votefor.php

Setting Cookies

• Cookies allow tracking of previous votes