Re: [phpesp-general] phpESP email function

[Curtis V. L. <zzv...@wa...>]

I am actually using the survey to get our users to help identify =
problems, by asking specific questions. Typically we get the "there's a =
problem with such and such computer" which doesn't help much. As I set =
up these surveys they will illicit information that will help us =
identify bugs/issues with each system. I am planning on using the =
database for the long-term analysis. With a human readable format we =
could assist users more quickly and also lend some accountability to the =
survey.

We are actually trying to rework phpESP to do this. I would be =
interested in how others are doing it.

The "forked" survey is a feature that we highly await.

Thanks
Curtis


Date: Sun, 25 Nov 2001 19:29:23 -0500 (EST)
From: "James E. Flemer" <jf...@ac...>
To: <php...@li...>
Cc: <sea...@gr...>
Subject: Re: [phpesp-general] phpESP email function

That should be pretty easy to do, but my question is ..
Why do you need the results to be emailed?

The advantage to doing this with a database backend is lost
if you use the email for the results. You can do much more
powerful data analysis out of the database. The email was
intended as a backup feature. In the case that the database
became inconsistent, the data could be recovered from the
email archive. That is why the email is in a machine
readable format (rather than a human readable one).

However, there seems to be a number of people who would
like human readable email. I hope to add this as an option,
so when designing a survey you can choose human/machine
readable email. I believe Sean Alderman was interested
in this as well, and was going to (/already has) implement
this.

I will add it as a feature request on the SourceForge site,
and see what I can do about it.

-James

On Sun, 25 Nov 2001, Curtis Von Lintel wrote:

> This app would fit my needs perfectly if I could only
> have it email the send the entire survey that a user
> takes. I am sure this seems crazy. Is there a way to
> hack that out?
>
> Thanks