XML/PHP voting system, help required urgently :)

[christam1]

Hi there, I'm creating a PHP/XML-based voting system. There are 24 options for a user to vote from, and ideally I'd like the user to see a picture of each person they vote for. So far, I've managed to list all the names of people up for voting from a "poll.xml" file in my "poll.php" file which is what web users will go to in order to vote. It also correctly updates the tally in the XML file when a person is voted for. The only thing that doesn't work now is trying to get an image to display next to each person's name...any ideas? Or would I have to learn XSLT to do this? (I have none currently, just a plain XML file and PHP file).

Thanks for your time! Appropriate sections of each file are below :)

POLL.PHP
[PHP]function printVotingForm ($pid) {
// get these variables in this scope
global $polls, $header_file, $footer_file;

// include header file
include($header _file);

// print poll title and form
echo "<h3 style=\"text-align: center\">" . $polls->poll[$pid]['title'] . "</h3>\n";
echo "<form action=\"" . $_SERVER['PHP_SELF'] . "\" method=\"post\" >\n";
echo "<fieldset> \n";
echo "<input type=\"hidden\" name=\"pid\" value=\"$pid\" />\n";
echo "<ul style=\"list-style-type: none\">\n";

// count number of answers
$no_answers = count($polls->poll[$pid]->answers->answer);

// print each answer as a checkbox
if ($polls->poll[$pid]->multipleanswer s == "yes") {
for ($i = 0; $i < $no_answers; $i++) {
echo "<li><input type=\"checkbox \" name=\"vote[]\" value=\"" . $polls->poll[$pid]->answers->answer[$i]->name . "\" />" . $polls->poll[$pid]->answers->answer[$i]->name . "</li>\n";
}
}

// print each answer as a radio button
else {
for ($i = 0; $i < $no_answers; $i++) {
echo "<li><input type=\"radio\" name=\"vote\" value=\"" . $polls->poll[$pid]->answers->answer[$i]->name . "\" />" . $polls->poll[$pid]->answers->answer[$i]->name . "</li>\n";
}
}

echo "</ul>\n";
echo "<p style=\"text-align: center\"><input type=\"submit\" value=\"Vote\" /> or <a href=\"" . $_SERVER['PHP_SELF'] . "?pid=$pid&amp; view_results=1\ ">View Results</a></p>\n";
echo "</fieldset>\n";
echo "</form>\n";

// include footer file
include($footer _file);
}

}

[/PHP]


POLL.XML
[PHP]<?xml version="1.0"?>
<polls>
<poll title="Who do you think should win the vote this year?">
<answers>
<answer>
<name>Michael </name>
<tally>0</tally>
<image>src_here .gif</image>
</answer>
<answer>
<name>Sophie</name>
<tally>0</tally>
</answer>
</answers>
</poll>
</polls>[/PHP]

[Dormilich]

one way could be to store the image name along with the person's name in the xml file and then build an <img> from the $polls object around that, similar to the name.

you do not have to learn xslt for that, but it can come in handy for lots of persons. (plus it directly outputs (x)html, so you don't need to convert xml->php->html)

regards