Poll based on IP address

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Sweetjockey Members Profile Find Members Posts Newbie Joined: 27 June 2002 Location: United States Status: Offline Points: 18	Post Options Post Reply Quote Sweetjockey Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Topic: Poll based on IP address Posted: 18 December 2004 at 3:20pm
	I was wondering if there's a way to set the poll to allow 1 vote based on a person's IP address. As with the current way if you wanted to cheat even though the poll is set to only allow 1 vote. All you have to do is delete the cookies and bam! you can vote again. If the All powerful programmers would reply that'd be great :) I love all your scripts.

dj air Members Profile Find Members Posts Senior Member Joined: 05 April 2002 Location: United Kingdom Status: Offline Points: 3627	Post Options Post Reply Quote dj air Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 18 December 2004 at 3:35pm
	you would need to create a new table that stores the IP addresses. everytime a vote is done you check for the IP, if it doesn't exist add the vote and update the new table with the IP Address. if it does you alert the user. or you can check before voting to see if the IP is there but that will use up more proccessing .

Gullanian Members Profile Find Members Posts Senior Member Joined: 04 January 2002 Location: England Status: Offline Points: 4373	Post Options Post Reply Quote Gullanian Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 18 December 2004 at 4:41pm
	Bruce did consider this method I believe but rejected the idea because it would need to potentially store a lot more data in a datbase which would slow down the smaller forums a lot. The new table would have two columns, poll ID and IP.

dj air Members Profile Find Members Posts Senior Member Joined: 05 April 2002 Location: United Kingdom Status: Offline Points: 3627	Post Options Post Reply Quote dj air Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 18 December 2004 at 5:52pm
	if you where going to use this method its better to store the Author_ID, so it doesn't mess with dynamic IPs ... i wouldn't because of the table size as gullanian said.

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