I keep getting
Notice: Trying to get property of non-object in /usr/home/static/tatersalad_net/plugins/democracy_plugin/_democracy.plugin.php on line 448

Thanks for the advice ¥åßßå - did the trick I think

Can this plugin be updated so polls can be stuck in posts.

I haven't looked into it, but you could probably/possibly add a renderer (you'd need to use DisplayItemAsHtml for 1.9.2 to bypass the pre-rendered content issues) so you could include a poll in your post

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problem with the check of ip addresses. as this is a very local and area based website most people are connected to the same provider. NTL in this case and they very often assign the same proxy ip address. which means different users are seen as the same user.

the quick solution was to disable in _democracy.plugin.php:

$all_ips = $DB->get_var("SELECT voters FROM ".$this->get_sql_table('Q')." WHERE {$where}");

now it is fine, but of course people can now vote as often as they want as soon as their cookie has expired.

any other solution???

You could also check the user id number, if the person is logged in. That would really only be helpful if you only let logged in users vote in the poll. Aside from that, cookies and IP address are the only ways I know how to limit voting.

version 1.9.2

plugin loaded fine
show toggle to always
include added to _main.php

no tab option shows up under tools in the admin panel

any ideas?

Hi, for some reason the poll is now showing up in the tools panel, not sure why it was not showing before...

Just wanted to let you know and say thanks!

how can i have it display a bar graph instead of a pie chart?

Hi Paul,
If you hit admin > tools > democracy, you'll see a checkbox for "display results as a pie chart", you just need to untick it.

To do this with an already active poll you just need to click "edit" and then change the option

¥

Your plug-in is terrific. Thank you so much. I'm not sure if we are having a problem with it or not. We get a few hundred unique visitors per day so its possible that many of them are just opionless boobs... We put up a poll each day and whatever the top answer is (even if is "I'm an opinionless boob") It gets 60-100 votes while the rest get single digits. You can check it out here- http://www.rocktownhall.com/blogs/index.php?cat=14

Please let me know if you have any idea what's going on.

Thanks.
sammymaudlin

Hi.

Very nice job indeed ;-)

I need to translate some of the messages to danish, and so far so good, but, I cannot find where to change the [Vote] text on the submit bottom :-(

Please, someone, point me in the right direction ;-)

I have made a complete search in the plugin source code, but without any luck.

Please ?

As I told Sammy via email, this is probably due to spammers going through the site following every link and submitting every form they come to. We'll address this int he next version.

The polls work, it's just that for some reason the .css file for the plugin is called before any of the other .css files. When the browser tries to load the democracy.css file, it comes up with a file not found error. So i don't get the little bars for answers. I have the democracy.css file in the plugins directory of my site. Is there a different place i should put it?

It looks like you solved this problem?

¥

I love this plugin.

However, I've tried to change the background color of the chart (pie chart, when showing the result) to the bg I have the the sidebar. But when I do, I get a two-coloured background. It'd seem that the rectangles containing the result and the chart shows with the right background colour, but around them it's a darker shade of that colour. Maybe I'm just blind, who can't find the reason for this, but please point me in the right direction.

Cheers / W

Correction: sorry. The problem is not that the surrounding area is darker, but that some parts of the image showing the chart and the result, is in a brighter shade of the background. I'm almost certain... Still very annoying that it's different colours instead of just the singe one I've defined in the PHP-script.

Wille,
Those parts of the chart are not configurable in the plugin. You're not missing anything. In the next version we can give more control over that. Until then you can read up on php swf charts and edit the plugin file to make that look how you want.

Danny

Ok, thanks. I'll do that, then. Great plugin. :)


Another idea:
It'd be nice if it was possible, when creating a new poll, to select one or more blogs that the poll will be displayed at. I for exempla have three 'blogs' (well, two + one showing both) and in some cases I'd like the poll to be displayed on two of them, while in other cases I want a poll to be displayed only on one (or on all).

cheers / W

Wow! Great plugin! Works better than I could ever hope for.

I am trying to set up the archive page for this plug-in, but here's where I'm having trouble:

This is what I'm told to do in the instructions:

You can add a link that lets you see all of the old polls, but it requires one more edit to the _main.php file. Find the part of the file says "switch( $disp )", and add one more case to the bottom of that list

There seems to be no "switch( $disp )" in the _main.php file, neither in the one my skin uses nor the original one.

Where exactly am I suposed to create this case?

In the newer versions of b2evo the switch has been moved into /skins/_dispatch.inc.php

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"switch( $disp )" does not appear in _dispatch.inc.php either. And if I add the case into that file, my whole sidebard disappears and I get this error at the bottom of my page:

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_CASE in /home/andrihug/public_html/skins/_dispatch.inc.php on line 43

I am using version 1.9.3 of b2evo...

Find a section of code that looks like this :

if( !defined('EVO_MAIN_INIT') ) die( 'Please, do not access this page directly.' );

if( $disp != 'posts' && $disp != 'single' )
{ // We must display a sub template:


and change it to :

if( !defined('EVO_MAIN_INIT') ) die( 'Please, do not access this page directly.' );

if( $disp == 'pollarchives' )
{
// this includes the poll archives if requested
echo '<div class="bPost">';
$Plugins->call_by_code( 'democrcy', array( 'display' => 'archives' )
);
echo '</div>';
return;
}
if( $disp != 'posts' && $disp != 'single' )
{ // We must display a sub template:

¥

Well, that did solve the problem I had with the archives page not displaying. But there is more trouble still. Take a look at the errors I get now on the archives page: http://andrihugo.com/index.php?disp=pollarchives

What to do, what to do...?

hmmm, try changing this section of code ( approx line 959 ) :-

// The archiving function
function jal_democracy_archives ( $params ) {
global $DB, $jal_graph_from_total, $blog;

$where = "WHERE active = '0'";
$where .= ($params['allblogs']) ? "" : " AND blog_id = '{$blog}'";


to :

// The archiving function
function jal_democracy_archives ( $params ) {
global $DB, $jal_graph_from_total, $blog, $cookie;

$where = "WHERE active = '0'";
$where .= ( empty( $params['allblogs']) ? "" : " AND blog_id = '{$blog}'" );

¥

*edit*
Ooops, looks like you also need to change this code ( line 1024 ) :
if ($add_sup) echo "<br /><small>¹ = Added by a guest</small>";

to :

if ( !empty( $add_sup ) ) echo "<br /><small>¹ = Added by a guest</small>";

Yes sir, most excellent. Thank you ever so much for your help! :)

I'm getting the following error and can't figure out why... any ideas?

Notice: Trying to get property of non-object in ..:\..\public_html\plugins\democracy_plugin\_democracy.plugin.php on line 448

Notice: Trying to get property of non-object in ..:\..\public_html\plugins\democracy_plugin\_democracy.plugin.php on line 465

Are you using the most up to date version of the plugin? It was updated in May. If not, download the current version and try it.

jast the same error in v1.5.3 but in diffrent lins.......

I've gotten the same error as farhad. It occured when all existing polls are deactivated. This leaves the script nothing to call for display. At least, I think that's what is happening. Anyone else confirm?

I've discovered the error 'Notice: Trying to get property of non-object in...' can be cleared easily by adding the following line of code at the top of the php code in the _democracy.plugin.php file.

error_reporting(0);

It doesn't fix the error but hides it. The plugin works fine and it seems the error can be ignored. Please correct me if I am mistaken about this.

Thanks,
Joel

A notice is not an error and can be safely ignored.

I am not sure what it is that I am either doing wrong or not doing but I cannot get the cast votes to display on the main blog page nor any link to view the pie chart.

I have gone over all the posts here and on b2evolution's site and nothing seems to address this other than a vague reference to reading up on php swf and enabling javascript.

Any suggestions/ideas would be appreciated.

I am running Win XP home and not sure what my PHP version is. I use Yahoo!'s web server, which may be the problem itself as they do limit things that basic web hosting can use.

I found some serious problems with SEO (latest version 1.5.3 on b2evolution 1.10.2).

See how this issue affected original plugin too:
http://www.blog-republic.com/2006/09/17/wordpress-democracy-plugin-warning-seo-nightmare/

And fix annuncement in release notes here:
http://blog.jalenack.com/archives/democracy/

Is it possible to fix it?

hey.

i'd like to make this plugin work with the latest 2.0 alpha 1
i looked at the given code to add :

call_by_code( 'democrcy', array() ); ?>

in the sidebar since that's where i'd like it.

And i get the following Notices (and making the ReportError to 0 doesnt solve anything).

Notice: Trying to get property of non-object in C:\Program Files\EasyPHP 2.0b1\www\b2evolution\blogs\plugins\democracy_plugin\_democracy.plugin.php on line 456

Notice: Trying to get property of non-object in C:\Program Files\EasyPHP 2.0b1\www\b2evolution\blogs\plugins\democracy_plugin\_democracy.plugin.php on line 473

It doesn't display anything at all beside those 2 messages, even if i try uncheck "Display Piechart"

Anyone has an answer, i'm using the latest version of democracy.

Thanks.

How do you add the poll archives in b2evolution 2.x? I cannot find the necessary code to edit since the themeing system has changed.

Hi,

I just installed this sweet plugin but getting some code errors on the blog.

";s:7:"after_q";s:9:"";s:4:"sort";b:1;s:4:"blog";s:1:"1";s:12:"archive_link";b:0;s:3:"gft";b:1;s:3:"gct";s:4:"#06c";s:3:"gcb";s:4:"#05a";s:7:"poll_id";i:0;}' />
Notice: unserialize() [function.unserialize]: Error at offset 1017 of 1027 bytes in /blogs/plugins/democracy_plugin/_democracy.plugin.php on line 697

Any suggestions on a fix?

Please advise.

Thank you,

~TITSSN~

Heya again...

I have a suggestion, could there be a "global" poll option? These will be useful for polls that concerns, well, all blogs on a particular b2evo install.

Or maybe, instead of a "global" option, a "checkbox" on where the poll will appear, and any votes voted on any of those blogs are computed together.

Like Laibcoms (04/07/08) I would like to have my polls appear globally across my multi-blog pages without the need to enter the poll on every page. Is this possible?

Just installed the latest version for testing and without any problems, very plugin -- well done

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I tested Democracy 2.2.0. I like it a lot. The only issue I have is with the pie chart. When I click on the pie chart, it goes to this link
http://www.maani.us/charts/index.php

Is there any way to disable it?

Great plugin!
I need to show the polls only to registered users of b2evolution blog.
how is it possible?

Nice plugin, but I can't figure out how to make the pie-chart work. When I enable the pie-chart, I get an error in my browser log saying "chart.txt" not found. I tried copying the chart.txt to skins/pixelgreen, but it didn't help. Without charts.txt, I get what looks like a sample chart that graphs the values 2002, 2003 and 2004 -- those values are totally unrelated to my poll.

What do I need to do to enable pie charts?

I've just recently installed the Democracy plugin on my site. It works fine, people were voting, but now I get an error when I try to view the results:

Fatal error: Call to a member function get() on a non-object in public_html/plugins/democracy_plugin/_democracy.plugin.php on line 945

It's the latest version of the plugin...

Thanks for the help!

Na

I would like to also request, like stjep, a way to make a post available only to registered users of the blog, to keep it relevant to my specific users and not open to the general public. Is there any way the poll can be made to show in a protected post, for example? I LOVE the plugin! Thanks for all you did to bring it to b2evo!

hello, I am getting the same Fatal error whenever someone votes.

I'd like to add the poll archives page to my blog, but I can't figure out where the code is to manipulate. Any chance you could post where to edit in 2.4.6?

Thanks! I love the plugin!

Marc

It would be great if the poll admin page showed the actual vote count for each possible answer rather than just the total votes and the winning answer. I'd like to be able to look back and see if something won 51% of the vote or 88% of the vote, rather than just seeing that it won.

Just like the person who left a comment on the 0/02/09 @ 08:34 I have also jus installed the latest version on the Democracy plugin on my site and when using Firefox I get the same Fatal error message "Fatal error: Call to a member function get() on a non-object in public_html/plugins/democracy_plugin/_democracy.plugin.php on line 945" when someone tries to view the results. IE works fine!

Can anyone help?

Thanks

Andy

I get this message:

Fatal error: Call to undefined function: drawchart() in /usr/local/pem/vhosts/207497/webspace/httpdocs/plugins/democracy_plugin/_democracy.plugin.php on line 869

Any ideas?

cracking plugin, it is just a shame it doesnt work! b2 3.1 - evocamp template - sidebar poll all is fine, showing up and then allowing a vote, no problems, but three of my users on three seperate computers with three ip addresses have voted on the poll, they all are only seeing their own vote and not a single vote of the others. plus in my dashboard and on my webpage, all i see is one vote. any ideas would be welcome as this could be a cracking plugin

at line we have:

DrawChart($chart)

but I get this error msg:

Fatal error: Call to undefined function DrawChart() in _democracy.plugin.php on line 869

any help is appreciated!

Just put it on 3.3.3 and it seems to work fine (note: not enabling pie chart functionality!)