Experimental project

This is a sandbox project, which contains experimental code for developer use only.

Socialvote module allows to carry on polls on the principle of Battle of brands. In contrast to ordinary polls in that case user must confirm on his wall (vk, or facebook) the publication of proposed comment. His comment will contain the URL to questioning page. So you can advertise your site by viral advertising to conducting provocative poll.

Note: the module requires installed libraries CURL and JSON on server.

After enable of module:

  1. Config the module on setting page (/admin/config/content/socialvote). Be sure to define id and secret of your applications on vk (http://vk.com/editapp?act=create) and facebook (https://developers.facebook.com/apps).
  2. Position authorization block via social services on header of your site (user can't vote without it)
  3. Create the menu items you need for the sections and subsections of social polls. By default: publish/sect1, publish/sect2, publish/sect3, notpublish/sect1, notpublish/sect2, notpublish/sect3 (look at settings page)
  4. In some cases, you will need to clear the drupal-cache manually.

Additional features:

  • You can use two blocks generated by module: authorization block and form for create new poll.
  • Social polls inherited features of Entity
  • Integration with Rules module. Socialvote generate events "created poll" and "vote counted".
  • You can set length of the visible band of polls on js-navigation by change options SOCIALVOTE_DISPLAYPORTION_LEFT and SOCIALVOTE_DISPLAYPORTION_RIGHT in socialvote.define.inc.
  • The administrator can influence the results of polls and artificially cranking votes.

To reduce quantity of queries to the database edit socialvote.define.inc manually.

For theming polls look file inc/socialvote.theme.inc and folder /templates.

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