Last ActionScript Hero - Flash Blog: Flash Pollz v1.0 released for Public Preview

After a very long time I found some time to work on MX2004. In parallel I was searching for a poll application and barely found a good PHP-Flash based poll system, which met my requirement. I came across some Flash based poll system's but most of the good ones were heavily priced. I finally decided to create a poll system on my own using Flash and PHP. And here is the end product. I have not tested the application completely so bear with any obvious bugs in the application for sometime.

The v1.0 of Flash Pollz can be found here.

Please feel free to comment on any bugs you come across. You can also request for new features you would like added to it. I will release the package for public use once Iam done with the bug fixing and the enhancement you guys request for.

Some known issues with this version:

1) Data is not automatically refreshed after submitting the poll.
2) Uses text files (Though this is not an issue I am planning to release a version with database integration or XML)
3) PHP file name is hard-coded in source
4) Number of poll options is limited
5) No preloader

Planned Enhancements:

1) More graph and chart types
2) UI Improvement
3) Skinning feature
4) Dynamic assignment of PHP files and file names
5) Integrating pre-loader

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I think this time no-one claims that they taught me how to create Flash Polls ;)

Posted by kp at September 10, 2004 04:39 PM

Tracked on July 3, 2005 09:37 AM

Comments

ah thats interesting
good luck with it

- rollover on the chart pieces show percentage and number/total

the rest is ok

Posted by: riccardo caroli at September 10, 2004 07:43 PM

Great stuff, only thing is will you be able to release the FLA, is it using the Charting Components from a DRK?

Rich

Posted by: Richard Leggett at September 11, 2004 04:23 PM

I would like to use cold fusion as back-end, this means you would have to provide for a version using a .cfm rather than .php page hardcoded, or an option to change the url for the backend. I woudl be glad to help in building that.

Posted by: Dirk De Bock at September 11, 2004 07:15 PM

Are repeat votes from same IP address counted?

Posted by: steve w at September 11, 2004 11:19 PM

Should you hide the results until the user has submitted his selection? Otherwise, you can easily vote to disrupt the random polling.

Posted by: A L at September 11, 2004 11:20 PM

Its great to see so many people interested in the application. To consolidate the enhancements required :

1) Rollover on the chart pieces should show percentage and number/total.

2) Support for cold-fusion and / or ability to define the backend URL

3) Repeated votes from the same IP address should not be counted

4) Hiding the results until the user has submitted his selection

I will start working on these and the other enhancment and will keep you guys posted on the next release.

Thanks once again for all those comments and enhancements.

-Last ActionScript Hero

Posted by: Last ActionScript Hero at September 12, 2004 11:00 AM

Hi Riccardo,

Iam not sure if I will release the FLA of this , at this point of time. But I will make the stand-alone version (without the code-base) available to be used for everyone, which means you can still use all the functinality of the Lite Version just by changing a few value in the XML file but wont be able to modify the functionality.
But still I am not sure I may release it as a free version along with the source code too ;)

-Lats ActionScript Hero

Posted by: Last ActionScript Hero at September 12, 2004 11:07 AM