Election / voting script, Mambo or just PHP based

General Web Coding PHP and MySQL
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A client requested a voting / election system for their Mambo 4.51 based site. They want to hold their organization’s elections via the web rather than paper-based ballots.

Any suggestions? Standalone would be fine if it runs via PHP, but Mambo / Joomla integrated would be better so that I can restrict voting to subsets of their membership.

My searches are digging up a number of content rating systems, but nothing for voting.

Thanks,
Tim

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Hey Tim,

Here is what I found on Joomla: http://www.siteground.com/tutorials/joomla/joomla_polls.htm . http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/134307/how_to_create_a_poll_in_joomla.html

It’s been a few months since I have used Joomla but there is a way to get the poll to show up on the home page of the site. It might be in the content manager section.

Hope one of those help.

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Thanks, apparently they don’t have the polls module/component installed. At least I can’t find it in the menus. I’m not sure it would meet the needs anyway: multiple offices (so multiple questions) and ensuring a single unique vote per member.

I’m trying to convince the client to upgrade to either the newest Mambo version or to Joomla…not that there’s a voting module for those versions but at least I’d have a better chance of finding working add-ons and information!

Thanks for your help.
Tim

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In the newest version of Joomla, the poll component should come with the install.