News concerning jk_poll are also available by following @jk_poll at twitter. Besides reading tweets about the current development feel free to use it for comments, bugs, feature requests and appreciation ;).

There is a new field "explanation" when creating a new poll. This field can be used with a marker in the template file to show a text after the user has voted (RESULT view). With the help of this field you can realise some sort of quiz. The user chooses one of the given answers and is shown the correct answer on the result page as explanation. This might look like this.

This feature allows to show the result of a poll when using the LIST view. It can be enabled with the option "Show results in LIST" under "General Settings" or by using "plugin.tx_jkpoll_pi1.show_results_in_list = 1". Perhaps you should use a special template for this view. An example for such a template is included as "typo3conf/ext/jk_poll/res/jk_poll_results_list.tmpl". The result may look like this.

At the moment I'm working on jk_poll again (see development version in download section). There are still some features to work on and the documentation has to be completed, before it will be available in the official extension repository. To demonstrate the new features I decided to start a mini series of articles describing the new feature and a short example of it. Stay tuned for the first article of this series.

Anybody reading this page and perhaps also using the RSS feed certainly noticed that I haven't written new stuff for quite a long time. My motivation for new articles is very low, so I decided to discontinue this blog and use the domain www.krausmueller.de to only present my TYPO3 extension jk_poll and inform about updates of it. Old articles are still to be seen under the menu item "Blog", but there won't be any new ones.

I suppose nobody will be extremely sad, as I think there were not many readers anyway ;).