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I can not edit nor create Polls.
I write question and list of answers, then try to save, but all disappears.
Help please!

What kind of questions are you talking about? Please provide more information.

bye, Dirk

I mean Poll.
I write question and list of answers, then try to save, but all disappears

Okay, so which Geeklog version are you on? Do you happen to know if your PHP installation is using the Suhosin patch?

There was an issue with the Polls plugin and Suhosin in 1.5.0 and 1.5.1. Could that be the problem?

bye, Dirk

I didn't understand what to do here:
"If you have access to the php.ini, you can raise Suhosin's limit, suhosin.post.max_vars, accordingly (see below)."

However following help is really working:
"The easier way is probably to limit the number of questions or options per question in Geeklog (in the Polls Configuration)."

I've also been having problems with the Poll plugin.

I have happily used it in the past but I've now tried to create a new Poll, even a simple one logged in as Admin and just called "test" with the options of yes or no. I then press save and nothing saves, the poll does not appear in my Poll list. It isn't a timeout option as I did it within 60 seconds.

I'm running 1.5.2. The odd thing is that I think my last site upgrade was in January but my last successful Poll was April. Odd, because I'd expect such a problem to be due to a software upgrade (such as me stuffing it up - it's always a roll of the dice with all the customisations etc).

Is there a particular error log I should look in?

Could it be the Suhosin issue mentioned above? For example, if your hosting service installed Suhosin sometime after you created the last poll. The update to 1.5.2 did not reduce the number of options in an existing install.

bye, Dirk

Ah, thank you.

I read it too quickly and misinterpreted that it was a problem for 1.5.0 and 1.5.1 and thought I was okay at 1.5.2 but of course you mean 1.5.0 and beyond.

I allow up to 20 answers per question (!), so I just tried reducing it to 3 questions per poll, and it now works fine thanks.

From that I assume it was the Suhosin patch (and I would not have access to the php.ini).

But I don't see me using more than 1 or 2 questions per poll anyway.

Cheers,
Brett