questions on Javascript/html --- Voting

[Venkat Reddy]

I am doing a voting program. There are two choices, whenever i vote choice 1, a new page has to be displayed stating that i have voted choice 1, (similarly for choice 2 also), i have to display the no of votes as well as the no of votes in %(percentage) also.
How do we can acheive when we use the following options for voting
1)radio buttons
2)combo boxes
3)images
Could anybody pls respond asap.
Regards,
Venkat.

[bill bozeman]

You need to do some server side processing and storage of all past votes. That is the real trick of doing this. Using something like JSP you can have someone vote, with any of the methods you mentioned, and store there vote in a database or text file. Then you can query that database and display how many votes have been casted.
Hope that helps,
Bill

[Venkat Reddy]

Hi Bill,
Thanks for your response. We r not using JSP instead we r using FreeMarker. U can have a feel of my work at www.bbc.co.uk/totp/index.shtml
Venkat

Originally posted by bill bozeman:
You need to do some server side processing and storage of all past votes. That is the real trick of doing this. Using something like JSP you can have someone vote, with any of the methods you mentioned, and store there vote in a database or text file. Then you can query that database and display how many votes have been casted.
Hope that helps,
Bill

[This message has been edited by Venkat Reddy (edited February 12, 2001).]

[Anonymous]

I've never heard of FreeMarker. Can you tell a little about it?

[Venkat Reddy]

It is a open source specification, an alternative to JSP. U can find an article on Freemarker here http://www.javaworld.com/javaworld/jw-01-2001/jw-0119-freemarker.html
It separates html code from JSP. ....
Venkat

Originally posted by Bodie Minster:
I've never heard of FreeMarker. Can you tell a little about it?

[Zoe Peng]

what do I need to do/think for voting application?
tnx