Forums / General / building voting community with Exponential 3.0 ?
spencer jakob
Wednesday 16 April 2003 5:23:43 am
Hi all?
I like to build a _voting_ community. Is it possible with the _groundfeatures/system_ (object, classes) of Exponential 3.0 without modification of the kernel/system.
the following features should get realised: 1. - vote can have 1 ore more question 2. - question can have 1 ore more answers 3. - depending on the question the user can choose on or more answers 4. - answers can be of the type: text, image or link 5. - the answer of a users with more _userpoints_ (specific user variable) counts more then the answer of a user with lesser _userpoints_. 6. - possible to publish a vote _from_ / _until_7. - all users should be notified if a new vote/poll is published.
also there should be: - some sort of forum where the users con post comments on a vote/poll- some sort of Downloadarea. An admin can publish files plus metainformation in different categories for the users.
sorry for so much questions, but i don't know if this is possible without big modifications of the kernel, though thedocumentation is really great.
thanks and best regards spencerj
Jan Borsodi
Wednesday 16 April 2003 5:50:26 am
You will have to make your own module but no kernel modifications are needed. What you need to do is to create a new extension with your custom module. You should check the documentation for information about extensions.The voting system could also be created as a datatype, this means that you can create a new class with voting and have regular content objects as comments on the the vote objects.
File handling is already present in Exponential.
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Wednesday 16 April 2003 9:31:42 am
thank you for the answer!
i searched the site and documentation manual/sdk, -http://ez.no/sdk/ref/view/modules/ -http://ez.no/sdk/kernel/view/module_system but didn't find anything specific to module creation. sorry did i missed something. I would prefer to build the voting system with the datatype system. How and what, would i have to implement than. I guess it starts with the Information Colector. Are there some plans whis DB persistence.
thanks and greets to norwayspencer
Dan Zembrosky
Monday 28 April 2003 11:56:11 pm
let me know if you suceed, i would like that type of functionality as well.