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The mystical number 12

The default Poll component available on Joomla! 1.5 has a limit of 12 options. Probably most people will get by without ever hitting this barrier – a 12 option limit is a reasonable number – but in case you need more than 12 options you will not find any way to increase the number through the graphical interface. There are also other Joomla! 1.5 extensions to insert poll components/modules on your site (like Apoll, CoolPoll, Autopoll, pollXT) but most of them are based on the default Joomla! component so usually they have the same 12 option limit. The good news is that the fix I describe below will probably also work for them! So here’s what you have to do to have more than 12 options on the Joomla! 1.5 Poll component:

5 to get over 12

1. Use your FTP client to browse to Administrator/Components/com_poll/views/tmpl/
2. Download and open the form.php file with your text editor (Windows Notepad will do just fine)
3. Search for this line of code:
4. Change the number 12 to the number of optional answers you need your Joomla polls to have
5. Save the file and upload to the same location Administrator/Components/com_poll/views/tmpl/

If you don’t find the form.php file then you aren’t browsing inside Administrator/Components/com_poll/views/tmpl/. Please double check that you aren’t browsing elsewhere; the com_poll folder exists at another location in the Joomla folder structure but it doesn’t have the form.php file.

Now head back to the Joomla control panel and the Poll graphical interface will have the number of options you chose – permanently!

Done!

There you have it, the easy way to increase the number and have more options for answers on the Joomla! Poll component. I hope this tutorial was usefull and you enjoy using this great open source software!