RE: [phpesp-general] Limiting users to a single survey submission

[Derek S. <me...@de...>]

Well, that's disappointing... without such a feature this script is unusable
for me, I can't have users be able to "stuff the ballot" simply by hitting
the BACK or RELOAD buttons.  I agree cookies aren't foolproof, but they are
better than nothing at all (and better than the other alternative -- IP
logging with one vote per IP.)  If there are shared computers, generally
users still have seperate logins (and with that a separate user profile.)
But if someone is just using a shared computer in something like a public
library, no, that's small exception scenario is not really a concern of
mine.

My primary concern is that I run a website, want to offer an awards survey
ballot on the website, and I do not want the members of the community to be
able to EASILY vote more than once for their favorite choices.  Yes, someone
could always delete the cookie or log on from all their friends computers as
well, but as I mentioned, my goal was to not make it easy but by no means
ironclad.

I'm surprised James hasn't already implemented this functionlity, as I said,
it's a pretty standard feature of just about all the survey scripts that
I've been evaluating, the lack of such a feature would seem to put phpESP at
a large competitive disadvantage.  It's too bad, because other than that it
looks like a very nice piece of software, I'm very disappointed it won't fit
my needs.

Best of luck,
Derek


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Subject: RE: [phpesp-general] Limiting users to a single survey
submission


yes Derek,

the approach I suggested would require you to create a separate user
account for every user that you wish to be able to take the survey.
As of today I don't think you can limit users access by sending a cookie.
Even
if you could, what about shared computers, or it is not a concern for your
target market.
Anyway it is possible to add this feature, but it's up to James Flemer to
make a
decision on that. Hopefully he'll read the post and you'll hear what he has
to
say about it soon.

Good luck,
-Roman
Quoting Derek Santos <me...@de...>:

> Thanks Roma, but wouldn't that approach require me to create a separate
> user
> account for every user that I wished to be able to take the survey?
>
> Our survey is meant to be public and open to any web user that decides
> to
> take it -- with upwards of hundreds of folks taking it -- so creating
> individual accounts for each user isn't feasible.
>
> Am I understanding private surveys correctly?
>
> Thanks,
> Derek
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: ro...@la... [mailto:ro...@la...]
> Sent: Thursday, February 07, 2002 3:57 AM
> To: me...@de...
> Subject: Re: [phpesp-general] Limiting users to a single survey
> submission
>
>
> Derek,
>
> you're right. It's possible, but not by cookies. You need to go to
> Change
> Access
> To a Survey (Limit Respondents.) and set Max Logins to a number that
> represents
> how many times one can access the survey. (Survey should be set to
> Private
> for
> this to work). This should do it for you.
>
> -Roma
>
>
> Quoting Derek Santos <me...@de...>:
>
> >
> > Hello, I just installed the software and it's great -- I am having
> one
> > problem however.  I can't find a setting anywhere that would allow me
> > to
> > limit visitors to a single submission of a survey by setting a
> cookie.
> > I'm
> > assuming the software has usch a feature, since without it ballot
> > stuffing
> > would be a huge problem, but I just haven't found it.
> >
> > Can anyone help?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Derek
> >
> >
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