HOWTO: track votings by Member ID instead of IP

Change:

$_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR']

to:

getLoggedId()

in inc\classes\BxDolVoting.php file in 2 (two) places.

Please note it will not work for not logged in users, so make sure that guests can not vote.

thank you AlexT for this. i am going to get it applied and report back to you.

one other thing i am looking for on here, is i know there is a refresh rate time set for subsequent votes. i wish to limit one vote per memberID. can you point to where the refresh setting is located? i think it was set by default to 24 hours or something. i need to set that to the equivalent of 1 year or something.

Thanks for this, Alex!

<sorry about accidentally reporting your post>

I was able to locate the two files you mentioned, but also found more voting related files:

Do these other files also need to be addressed to track voting by Member ID instead of IP address?

Have a look at the following line in the beginning of inc\classes\BxDolVoting.php file:

define( 'BX_PERIOD_PER_VOTE', 7 * 86400 );

it is in seconds, by default it is 1 week

No, only one file I mentioned above, all other files are inherited from this one and don't need to be changed