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

[<ro...@la...>]

you said *members of the community*. does it mean they are registered members
(they have username/password somewhere). If it is the case you could use their
existing username/password in ESP. To put together a script which would transfer
their existing u/p into ESP shouldn't be too much work/time.

-Roma
Quoting Derek Santos <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
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: php...@li...
> [mailto:php...@li...]On Behalf Of
> ro...@la...
> Sent: Thursday, February 07, 2002 10:34 AM
> To: php...@li...
> Cc: me...@de...
> 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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