Extension:Poll2

What can this extension do?

The extension add a Special Page to create Polls and vote to them.

Usage

Use Special:Poll

Download instructions

• Create a directory named "Poll" in the wiki/extensions folder
• svn checkout http://svn.wikimedia.org/svnroot/mediawiki/trunk/extensions/Poll/ Poll
• Download the files at this link and put them on the poll directory

Installation

To install this extension, add the following to LocalSettings.php:

require_once("$IP/extensions/Poll/Poll.php");

SQL

Now you must run on a shell this command:

$ php <mediawiki_root>/maintenance/update.php

For help about this script see Manual:Upgrading#Shell and Manual:Upgrading#Alternative 1: phpShell.

SQL Alternative

If you have no access to a shell and don't want/can't use phpShell, you must install the tables manually. To install open the file "Poll-install-manual.sql" in the direction "archives" in the Poll dir. Now replace /*$wgDBprefix*/ in the whole file with your MediaWiki-table-prefix. Then run the sql file in your database with the MediaWiki installation (e.g. with PHPMyAdmin)

The following patches were excluded from the "Poll-install-manual.sql" file: (accidently?)

ALTER TABLE /*$wgDBprefix*/poll 
ADD `end` INT( 1 ) NOT NULL ;

ALTER TABLE /*$wgDBprefix*/poll 
ADD `runtime` INT( 10 ) NOT NULL ;

ALTER TABLE /*$wgDBprefix*/poll 
ADD `starttime` INT( 30 ) NOT NULL ;

Rights

Default rights are:

$wgGroupPermissions['sysop']['poll-admin'] = true;
$wgGroupPermissions['*']['poll-admin'] = false;
 
$wgGroupPermissions['autoconfirmed']['poll-create'] = true;
$wgGroupPermissions['*']['poll-create'] = false;
 
$wgGroupPermissions['autoconfirmed']['poll-vote'] = true;
$wgGroupPermissions['*']['poll-vote'] = false;
 
$wgGroupPermissions['*']['poll-score'] = true;

See also

• Extension:Poll
• Extension:Poll2/pl - Polish translation