recording votes

[user99]

my page has a drop down with names which
people can vote for. any ideas on how
i can record the individual count of
votes for each name. i'm thinking about
using a text file to store the names with
the vote count and incrementing the counts
and then write them back to the same file.

any better ideas????

 

[Robin]

my page has a drop down with names which
people can vote for. any ideas on how
i can record the individual count of
votes for each name. i'm thinking about
using a text file to store the names with
the vote count and incrementing the counts
and then write them back to the same file.

any better ideas????

your way is how I did it for my poll unless your planning to use a database,
this seems like the best option to me....remember not to make your vote
files
world readable.
-Robin

 

[Matt Garrish]

your way is how I did it for my poll unless your planning to use a database,
this seems like the best option to me....remember not to make your vote
files
world readable.

Care to share what steps you took to ensure that multiple instances of your
script aren't trying to read and write to the file at the same time?

Matt

 

[Bill]

my page has a drop down with names which
people can vote for. any ideas on how
i can record the individual count of
votes for each name. i'm thinking about
using a text file to store the names with
the vote count and incrementing the counts
and then write them back to the same file.

any better ideas????

It's not perfect, but look at http://www.datacomm.ch/atair/perlscript/

 

[Robin]

Care to share what steps you took to ensure that multiple instances of your
script aren't trying to read and write to the file at the same time?

None yet, but actually at this moment I'm learning about file locking and
open() checking...later,
-Robin