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I have a poll with 11 possible answers (all slots are filled). The poll shows up correctly, but when I go into the admin area to edit it, the 10th option shows up in both the 10th spot and the 11th spot. If I edit the 11th, it shows up on the home page with my edits, but still shows up in the admin area the same as the 10th. Any idea how to fix this?

That's a bug in the poll editor -- even though it shows 11 slots you can only use 10. I ran across this some time back and reported it. It probably got lost in the confusion. The problem is in poll.php in the admin directory. In the function editpoll on about line 267 of the file you will find: for ($i = 0; $i < $_CONF['maxanswers']; $i++) { $A = DB_fetchArray($answers); $poll_templates->set_var('answer_text', htmlentities ($A['answer'])); $poll_templates->set_var('answer_votes', $A['votes']); $poll_templates->parse('answer_option','answer',true); } The problem is each time you parse the template it generates another blank for use again. The blank has the same values as the preceding entry. So you need to change it so that on the last time through the loop it does not parse the template. That would be when $i=maxanswers - 1. So replace the last line in the loop above with: if ($i != ($_CONF['maxanswers'] - 1)) { $poll_templates->parse('answer_option','answer',true); } It's fixed. TomW

Thanks. I actually replaced the last line with this: if ($i != ($_CONF['maxanswers'] - 1)) $poll_templates->parse('answer_option','answer',true); } The other had an extra curly bracket

Well no it did not have an extra curly bracket. Brackets are always used in pairs. And I added an opening and closing bracket. You will have lost some functionality, because your brackets will be unbalanced. TomW

Thanks for the help, I must have misunderstood where this was supposed to go. I replaced: for ($i = 0; $i < $_CONF['maxanswers']; $i++) { $A = DB_fetchArray($answers); $poll_templates->set_var('answer_text', htmlentities ($A['answer'])); $poll_templates->set_var('answer_votes', $A['votes']); $poll_templates->parse('answer_option','answer',true); } With this: for ($i = 0; $i < $_CONF['maxanswers']; $i++) { $A = DB_fetchArray($answers); $poll_templates->set_var('answer_text', htmlentities ($A['answer'])); $poll_templates->set_var('answer_votes', $A['votes']); if ($i != ($_CONF['maxanswers'] - 1)) $poll_templates->parse('answer_option','answer',true); } That seems to work. I tried this: for ($i = 0; $i < $_CONF['maxanswers']; $i++) { $A = DB_fetchArray($answers); $poll_templates->set_var('answer_text', htmlentities ($A['answer'])); $poll_templates->set_var('answer_votes', $A['votes']); if ($i != ($_CONF['maxanswers'] - 1)) { $poll_templates->parse('answer_option','answer',true); } But then the brackets were uneven. I also tried this: for ($i = 0; $i < $_CONF['maxanswers']; $i++) { $A = DB_fetchArray($answers); $poll_templates->set_var('answer_text', htmlentities ($A['answer'])); $poll_templates->set_var('answer_votes', $A['votes']); if ($i != ($_CONF['maxanswers'] - 1)) { $poll_templates->parse('answer_option','answer',true); } } But that did not seem to work either. Am I missing somthing?

Sorry, I did not make it clear, replace the entire section with: for ($i = 0; $i < $_CONF['maxanswers']; $i++) { $A = DB_fetchArray($answers); $poll_templates->set_var('answer_text', htmlentities ($A['answer'])); $poll_templates->set_var('answer_votes', $A['votes']); if ($i != ($_CONF['maxanswers'] - 1)) { $poll_templates->parse('answer_option','answer',true); } } This works, its lifted out of my file. TomW

Thanks, It worked for me too. I thought that I had tried that, but I guess not