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What is the best tool for manipulating AFP print streams?

The IBM print file format is AFP. Advanced Function Presentation (AFP) is a presentation architecture and family of associated printer software and hardware that provides for document and information presentation independent of specific applications and devices. This is a binary, record based format, for high volume printing. Ther...

Content Voting Database and Application Design

How would you design a content voting mechanism that could be applied polymorphically to multiple models / classes. (in a ruby on rails context preferably, but others are fine) Given that instances of these classes can be voted on: - Article - Question - Product Voters should not be required to register. Best effort should be made to ...

Storing "votes" in a database

I'm writing what will be an intranet application, and one of its features is roughly analogous to content voting - not unlike what SO, Amazon, and many other sites do. Assuming each votable piece of content has a unique ID, and each user (they're authenticated) has a unique ID, the easiest way would seem to be to have a "votes" table......

Create unique Poll/vote/survey in php

The unique poll/vote/survey i mean here is, user can only vote once. How do i do that? Track their ip? Login? Beside login, what else? (login is my last option, thus beside login, is there anything else I can do?) ...

Preventing multiple daily votes in a contest

Voting contests seem to gain a lot of attention from people who want to game a system for fun. I know I spend a good amount of time fooling around with their forms and URLs, deleting cookies and writing the occasional crappy script. Is there a way to create a foolproof voting system that only allows one vote a day? Is Captcha the only e...

How can I use PHP and JavaScript to make an image clickable, and increment a counter stored as a flat file?

Im trying to find a php/js script that will let me take an image, and when clicked, increase the number in a flat file, and save that file. I know how to include the file to get the vote total. Im going insane trying to find this to plug and play into my website. Id love to have ip logging, and a cool fade in/out refresh update thing. ...

Setting up a rails app using vote_fu

Hey Guys, I've recently installed http://github.com/peteonrails/vote%5Ffu/tree/master (vote_fu) on an app I've been working on. Essentially, I just want a list of items (lets say, posts for example) to display in descending order based on votes. I added the acts_as_voteable to the posts model, and the acts_as_voter to the user model....

Vote for the best protocol for the given scenario

Hello! I have a design decision to make. I need your advice. Requirements: A server and a client. client is typically a mobile phone. Connected through the Internet. Server and client want to talk to each other. Exchange of text, multimedia between the client and the server. Text would be some standard format. that is predecided. Rea...

Free javascript star rating plugin

Could you suggest free javascript star rating plugin? ...

Sorting top votes in a timeframe using "Vote it up" and wordpress

I'm building a digg-like voting site for christmas greetings. I'm using wordpress and the "Vote it up" plugin. I am having alot of troubles being able to sort the vop votes within a timeframe. You can see what I mean on this site; http://wordtaps.com/ Look at the timeframe on the top right, that's exactly what I want. The site also use...

Voting eachtime sets to 1 How to solve this?

Each time i vote up or down it just sets an 1. But i want that votes_up=votes_up+1 inkrements eachtime i vote up. this is php code public function voteUp($id) { $this->initDB(); $q="update twitter.tweets set vote_up=vote_up+1 where id=$id"; $this->db->query($q); } the result is Down Votes:1 Up Votes:1 Total Vot...

Drupal Displaying the Vote up down widget 2.x

I'm using the drupal vote up down module and a module which overrides the node display, leading me to have to put the vote up down into a block (as opposed to having it be automatically rendered). Here is an issue with a snippit on how to do this in 1.x http://drupal.org/node/544354 Unfortunately 2.x is totally different. Does anyone ...

How can I implement a voting system (UP/DOWN) or (THUMP UP/DOWN) like StackOverFlow in .NET ?

How can I implement a voting system (UP/DOWN) or (THUMP UP/DOWN) like StackOverFlow in .NET ? I found PHP codes but I want something that works in .NET environment. I don't care about security issues like multi votes and such restrictions at this stage. ...

reddit style voting with django

Hay i need to hand implemeneting a voting system into a model. I've had a huge helping hand from Mike DeSimone making this work in the first place, but i need to expand upon his work. Here is my current code View def show_game(request): game = Game.objects.get(pk=1) discussions = game.gamediscussion_set.filter(reply_to=None) ...

Voting using Appcelerator Titanium and website

I want to capture peoples votes on both a website and in an app using appcelerator Titanium. Still a bit of a newbie and am looking for the best way to capture the votes and store them in some kind of database, probably mySQL. Any thoughts? ...

Collecting votes across multiple sites

I am looking for a solution that allows people to submit their vote to the main site via a voting system or banner. At the moment, I am aware of one solution that works with drigg and drupal, but it requires url redirect or mod_rewite that is not currently available on the clients server. Is anyone aware of a solution that would allow...

Facebook Polls Integration

Hello! I want to create a Facebook poll. Ideally, I would want it to be viral and show on people's pages if they voted. Even more, I would want it to be Flash so that I can have better control over the general look and feel if possible. How can I do this, please? Thank you! ...

Storing "likes" of an item in a database?

I'm running a Rails app on Postgres through Heroku. I'd like to implement similar to Facebook "likes" on my site for various items, such as user comments. What's the smartest way to store these in my database that will be efficient and fast? The obvious one is just to have a like join table between users and items, something like this:...

how to restrict user not to vote an article more than once?

in my application a user can post his/her article that other users can response upon ans vote up and down also like stackoverflow has for posted question ans answers. How can I restrict user so that he/she can't vote twice ? ...

Secure voting website

I am willing to implement website where will be top 10 best members' pictures or something like that. Before voting for pictures or uploading pictures people will have to register first. But how could I protect my website from multiple accounts? Store IPs to database? But will it help me while there thousands proxies out there? What shou...