Quick phpBB2 Question

[CaptainKahuna]

I have a small phpbb2 forum for an organization, and we run polls from time to time. Is there any way to break down the results?

For example - "John" voted for option A, "Steve" for option B, etc...

I have full administrator access to the boards as well as the SQL database.

 

[SaturnX]

I'm pretty sure you can't do that. Then again I could be wrong as I've never looked into that, but I have a feeling it wouldn't be keep track of things like that.

--Mark

 

[Vegitto]

You cannot do that. The phpBB2-team insisted NOT to implement it, because of privacy reasons (ie, 'John' could be blackmailed by 'Jack', because 'John' voted 'Yes' in the poll:"Is president of company 'X' 'Mr. x' a jackass?". 😉

 

[RossMAN]

Unless you keep on top of the phpBB security patches and vulneribilities I would switch to SMF or another forum software package.

I use http://www.mybboard.com/ which I have been impressed with so far.

 

[Nohr]

After a quick look through my phpbb database I agree with the above. It records who voted and then simply increments the number of votes for what was selected. It never makes a connection between the voter and their vote.

 

[KillyKillall]

agreed

 

[CaptainKahuna]

Originally posted by: Nohr
After a quick look through my phpbb database I agree with the above. It records who voted and then simply increments the number of votes for what was selected. It never makes a connection between the voter and their vote.

Could you theoretically look at the timestamp when the vote count was incremented, and the time stamp on the "this user has voted in this poll" field. If the times are within a second, you can be reasonably sure of a connection?

Are those times even recorded/retrievable?

 

[sao123]

Originally posted by: RossMAN
Unless you keep on top of the phpBB security patches and vulneribilities I would switch to SMF or another forum software package.

I use http://www.mybboard.com/ which I have been impressed with so far.

Theres nothing wrong with phpbb2....
I am a board admin...granted you have to patch as updates come out, but that happens with every product, including the infamous fusetalk.

BTW... you cant get poster to vote information, its not stored in the db.

 

[Nohr]

Originally posted by: CaptainKahuna

Originally posted by: Nohr
After a quick look through my phpbb database I agree with the above. It records who voted and then simply increments the number of votes for what was selected. It never makes a connection between the voter and their vote.

Could you theoretically look at the timestamp when the vote count was incremented, and the time stamp on the "this user has voted in this poll" field. If the times are within a second, you can be reasonably sure of a connection?

Are those times even recorded/retrievable?

AFAIK the only way you could possibly monitor who votes for what is to check the database after every single vote and keep a record.