[phpesp-general] misc. questions and answers

[James E. F. <jf...@ac...>]

> I'm pretty new to PHP, but I think I fixed an error in:
> survey_render.inc at least it is working for me now in
> test mode.

That bug has been fixed (in a slightly different way) in
the CVS tree. Thanks for the bug report.

> Q1) Could you outline the possible values for 'Length'
> and 'Precision' for the different type of questions?

Type		Len		Prec
------------------------------------
Yes/No		n/a		n/a
Text		length		max length
Essay		columns		rows
Radio		n/a		n/a
Checkboxes	min #		max #		(not implemented yet)
Dropdown	n/a		n/a
Rate		1..N		Use "N/A"
Date		n/a		n/a
Numeric		length		precision

> Q2) Would it be possible to add better page nav of a
> survey?
>
> Currently you can only go to the 'next page'... if you
> use your browser back button you get a page expired
> warning and you have to start from scratch.
>
> If you can you could just send me the code and I can
> update/add. Otherwise I will try to hack an update
> myself.

I would welcome any patches you send me for this. At the
moment I don't have time to do this. I have added it to the
list of feature requests on sourceforge.

> Q3) In test mode the results are not saved to the DB
> and you can only view the results from the last survey
> taken.

They should be save to the DB. The responses should
accumulate in test mode each time you fill it out (just
like a normal production survey). Can you provide me with
more details (off the mailing list), or duplicate the
problem on the Demo site?

> Q4) Your TODO file. It seems as though a couple of them
> have already been done.
>
> My main concern is; fix email functions | and | fix
> results math ;-)

Email functions are probably not done. I haven't looked at
that part of the code in a long time.
  [ admin/include/lib/espresponse.inc:392 ]

Math functions are fine. People always want results in
different formats or statistical methods, but for the sake
of simplicity and general audience they will stay as they
are. Any significant analysis of results should be done in
a statistical analysis program.

-James