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