This is one of the best free polls but have one big problem -users can't add polls from the frontend.

Good intention for sure and effort is should not be underestimated but still a lot to be done - especialy the coding needs to be cleared!

If you have any bright ideas about adding features or modifying pollXT, BE WARNED: the code is the worst I've seen in years. Stay away.

This just Works... Any survey component or program is supposed to be complicated by the nature of every possibility, the authors just worked it around in one easy way... it just works out of the box, Thanks for this component, it did the work!

And support... just some hours and there it was!

I have downloaded and tried it.
Dear developers, here are the areas that needed improvement for this component.

- uninstallation should be fully done. There are some leftovers in the database
- confusing administration interface. It is a total mess and thus mean counterproductive as cms system purpose is to make web administration easier. Please revise your user interface.

Dont get me wrong, I fully appreciate your hardwork in making this component, these are just feedback from one of your user. Thank you for reading.

Huge amount of different poll options! But I can't say that this is good. Very confusing mode with bad frontend layout and awful admin interface. Tried it, tested it a lot and uninstalled.

This extension is great.

It works out of the box, did not have any trouble with it.

Running it on a 1.0.15 joomla version and it just runs.

But.... I would like to use this on another site... that runs joomla! 1.5 ... and I don;t like legacy mode.. .so I really hope the developer is going to create a 1.5 native version soon.

The extension is great, very easy to install, very easy to configure but one of the major problem i encountered was displaying the poll images.

The extension has issues displaying poll pictures/images.

I really don't see what all the complaints were about this component works just fine and extends simple polling to much more advanced... takes you a minute to figure it out but once you see all the options you have like putting pictures in your poll and even links... yep I figured that one out by simply pasting html in the question box... you'll like it... nice component... some ppl just complain no matter what...

What a lovely poll, some real thought has been given to what people want but unfortunately it is full of bugs.

I am writing this review to hopefully get this developer to wake up to the potential he has or he is in danger of getting some bad reviews which in turn will affect his other components.

He needs to answer his forum posts, there are so many bugs present but very few of them get answered.

This is a really good product but annoying and I am so close to dropping it.

When i first looked at the features i felt like it was exactly the component i was looking for. But being on 1.5.2, I discovered that the admin pannel is very slow, some pannels are reacting very poorly (brings you back to the main tab when you select something). And it seems that there is a main issue with the polls tab. You can't indeed check the polls out so that it displays ok in the front end. All I managed to display is the template of a poll with wrong stuff in it: understand nothing displayed (no question no answer etc) and even buttons are displaying code stuff instead of their label :s
Hope it can be fixed as it sounds as a great tool ;)

This is one of the best free polls

The back end and functionality of this component is fabulous. There are many great features and it truly is as it's the standard joomla poll component on steroids.

HOWEVER. Sadly, due to poor html formatting of the modules for the front end, it is an absolute nightmare trying to customize the look of the polls through css. I was really disappointed to see numbers of non-semantic table techniques being used in the html.php file. I've been pulling my hair out and modding this extension, but it's quite an annoyance to have to do when it could have been done right in the first place. Due to this utter draw back I have to vote a fair, otherwise would be excellent.

I'm new to joomla and I found your poll very easy to install and customize. Let's see how it goes in the future. Great job!

The POLL component that comes already install with the JOOMLA package works absolutely fine, the only thing is that you only have 12 files to add question. But at least it works everywhere you put it on.

With the pollxt you have to publish it everywhere, which I think is just nonsensical, I mean, sometimes I just want to have the poll publish it in a very specific place.

That is one thing, the other thing, something I think is basic. You do not have an option to let the user vote once per day. It is impossible to have that option with POLLXT.

And you have failed in two very simple steps, which I think is just incredible.

Nice application but two inexplicable mistakes that you cannot forget.

This is the best "free" voting system for Joomla. Very flexible and easy to understand and lots of ways to show the poll results. The interface for entering survey question information is easy to follow, although a bit buggy. For instance, I can't create new survey question from scratch; I have to copy & edit existing ones. Other than that, pollXT works very well! Highly recommended.

First off: This Poll package removes the functionality of "Lag (elapsed time between votes)" from a poll. This means that although you may have a poll where multiple voting is allowed, a restriction or "lag" can't be configured into the poll. What this does is to allow multiple votes to happen one time after another without having to wait.

Having said that: Hold on to your keyboards. This is one package that does everything else with polls. Is it ultra refined and flawless? I am sure not. Being that it is the only alternative out there, and that it kicks some serious Joomla! butt, while running very nicely on a Unix machine, it is awsome, however.

Very little support. Crude in most cases, VERY EFFECTIVE. Allows for some serious creativity and data mining possibilities.

Thank you, Thank you. Thank you.

PollXT is a great extension. Major feature for me is the multiple response via check boxes or multiple select. Result display is adequate and clean. ***Important*** any problems not addressed in the community resources are handled by the developer, Oli, very quickly.

When the next version allows a max number of selections on multiple response questions, this will be an EXCELLENT extension.

Why aren't you using this com/mod/bot yet?

It's great and the install went quick and smooth and it does nearly everything we wanted. The things it doesn't do in 1.22 that we need it will do in 1.30 so we are very much looking forward to the update.

Get rid of the plain old stock polls and get this magnificently simple-to-use and easy-to-install pack.

Though installing 5 pieces separately could be combined one day I hope.

admin side of script is so slow that it takes almost 40/60 seconds to just download the main config page. same thing after every new question added.

you cannot delete a question after you've added it, just unpublish it.

some code errors and the hanging of the browser at every click in the admin side.

the support forum is completely unuseful.
20 threads, some of them 15 days old and only 3 threads answered.

you don't want to download this!