Hey, > You could take it further and only allow one vote per user and then log > their IP address as well. Thats exactly what i am trying. First it will check on $username, if that passes then it checks on $IP if that passes, allow the vote if not....
> There won't be many people who are determined to sway the vote by going > through the hassle of creating a new user and then voting again. But there > may be some. Exactly. >disregard votes which come from the same > IP address from users who've only signed up minutes before voting. Here theres a problem because as they sign up they are allowed to vote, basically when they try to vote and are not signed in they are taken to the sign up page, after they sign up a contol panel is created for them with a crapload of functions and they are taken to the voteing screen of the company they were trying to vote for in the first place. > While > they might think that they've beaten the system, you can clearly see from > your table of users, registration dates, IP address and Voting Times that > they're bogus. But it's a bit laborious to do this. It will be too much of a pain in the ass to to that...want something complicated but simple if you know what i mean. > Alternatively, once you've stored the first vote from a user in your > database, let them vote again, give them the 'Thank you for your vote' > message but disregard it from the server side. Thats the easy way around it, am doing it the hard way, am sending the user something like, "you have already voted for this company on <date> if you would like to see what you voted on or would like to change you vote click here" Users vote on 7 differient points/conditions. > They'll think they're getting > somewhere when in fact they're wasting their time (like those morons you see > at pedestrian crossings who stab the button repeatedly, with the belief that > it might make the lights change faster). HEHEHEH happy to know i am not the only one who gets pissed off with them. > Would anyone really want to frig a forum poll anyway? Surely nobody's that sad! Cant explain that right now but believe me its possible when $$ may be involved. Cheers, -Ryan > -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
