PodcastAlley Vote Form

[shadowfax]

Hello everyone,

I am new to the podcasting scene (boy bet you hear that a lot... lol). Anyway I have noticed on a few sites that people have "vote" forms linked back to podcastalley to get people to vote for their site. Example: http://www.mwgblog.com/

I looked everywhere and couldn't find any code helping us add the form to our site. I was wondering if anyone might know where I could get it?

This would be put on an existing website I have that I just started doing a podcast for: http://www.homenetworkhelp.info/

Desc: A podcast focused on creating, managing, and securing everything related to your home network, devices, and computers. Includes listener submitted questions, equipment reviews, news, etc., for all your home technology needs.

Anyway... ty for the help or code.

[Craig]

People have pretty much come up with these on their own by examining the Podcast Alley site or just copying it from one of the other sites that's using it.

Craig

[cc_chapman]

It's not that hard, but it does require a bit of customization. I hope that Chris, you do not mind me posting this. If you do please feel free to remove this.

Here is the code to put on your site

<form action="http://www.podcastalley.com/vote_process.php" target="_blank" method="post" name="form">
Vote for my podcast

<select name="pod_rating_now">
<option value="E">Awesome! (5)</option>
<option value="D">Great (4)</option>
<option value="C">Good (3)</option>
<option value="B">Ok (2)</option>
<option value="A">Poor (1)</option>
</select>


Please Enter your Email:

<input type="text" name="podvote_email">

<input type="hidden" name="pod_id" value="XXXXXXX">
<input type="submit" name="Submit" value="Vote!">

</form>

The key is that in the third from the bottom line you have to put in the ID of YOUR podcast as it is listed here at Podcast Alley instead of the XXXXXXX that I have shown here. You can do this by going and finding your listing and look in the address bar of your browser and you'll see an ID at the end.

I would also personally reccomend that you put some other text around it and linking right to PodcastAlley.com so that even if someone doesn't want to vote for you they can still check out and support this website.

[theFerf]

cool. im glad you posted this, for now. still working on V2 of the website, so this may change, but for now...this works.

:)

[karinnl]

Thanks for the html-code. It worked. If you like my podcasts, will you vote for me?

[cc_chapman]

cool. im glad you posted this, for now. still working on V2 of the website, so this may change, but for now...this works.

:)

Glad your ok with it. Posting it I kept going back and forth if you'd be ok with it.

[shadowfax]

ty vm for the code.

Still not sure how many are listening to my podcast but this might help. TY.

[jawbone]

Thanks for the code! My question, how much of the ID do you have to use? Do you use everything after the equals (=) sign? Or do you include the search?php code as well.

Thanks in advance!

Nevermind. I think I got it. It's a number, not a name, right?

[theFerf]

SCRIPT UPDATED!! UPDATE YOUR SITE!

<form action="http://www.podcastalley.com/vote_process_monthly.php" method="post" name="form">
<table border="0" cellspacing="5" cellpadding="5">
<tr>
<td colspan="2" valign="top">
<div align="center">
<font size="2" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">


I think this Podcast is:
<select name="podvote_vote">
<option value="E">Awesome! (5)</option>
<option value="D">Great (4)</option>
<option value="C">Good (3)</option>
<option value="B">Ok (2)</option>
<option value="A">Poor (1)</option>
</select>


Please Enter your Email:

<input type="text" name="podvote_email">

<input type="hidden" name="pod_id" value="XXXX">
<input type="submit" name="Submit" value="Vote Now!">
</div>
</td>

</tr>
</table>
</form>


Make sure you change the XXXX in the line:
<input type="hidden" name="pod_id" value="XXXX">
to your podcast ID as mentioned in the previous posts.