[phpesp-dev] patch: respondent dashboard (formerly "landing page")

[Bishop B. <ph...@id...>]

All,

I have assembled my final patch to support a user "dashboard" page (a =20
respondent's portal to his surveys).  The patch is too large to send =20
to the list.  To access the patch, visit: =20
http://bishop.ideacode.com/~bishop/staging/issue920.tgz

(To apply, untar/ungzip it, patch -p1 < issue920.patch.diff then copy =20
the public/help/*png files to public/help and commit)

The use of this dashboard is explained in the built-in help.  The =20
configuration options are explained in the configuration file.  Here =20
is the brief:

First, an administrator configures whether he wants to use the =20
dashboard at all.  Default is OFF, to remain compatible with previous =20
versions.  Once enabled, a user gets to the dashboard by either =20
hitting public/dashboard.php directly or by hitting public/survey.php =20
without a survey name.

Once at the dashboard, the user has three choices: log in, view the =20
help documentation, or (optionally) see a list of public surveys.  The =20
administrator decides whether or not to engage the list of public =20
surveys via the configuration file.  The default is OFF.

Once logged in, the user sees three panels: my surveys, my history, my =20
tools.  My Surveys lists all surveys the respondent can currently =20
take, using the same logic found elsewhere in the system.  The title, =20
status, and last activity date are shown in a table.  My History lists =20
all surveys the respondent has had access to, but does no longer -- in =20
other words, the surveys that have moved from active to done.  My =20
Tools allows the user to get help, log out, change their profile, =20
change their password, or email help.  The availability of the last =20
three in that list are administrator controlled, via the ini file.


OPEN ISSUE
There is one open issue, and that is with the current =20
<username,password> situation.  This code throws a friendly error to =20
the user in the case where the entered username and password is =20
non-unique.  I will be working on a patch next that will make =20
<username,password> unique by salting the password with the realm.



Please let me know if you have any questions.

bishop

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Bishop Bettini
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