Re: [phpesp-dev] phpESP branch

[Matthew G. <gr...@mu...>]

Are you planning to fork or contribute these changes back?

If you plan to contribute, keeping your tree in sync. with the main
devel tree could be troublesome.  We should also nail down a clear roadmap
for implementing your enhancements along with other possible/in
progress changes, xml/xlt being a "biggie" and the new UI that should
be somewhere near finished.

Just my humble thoughts :-)

On Wed, Apr 17, 2002 at 01:42:29PM -0700, randall ehren wrote:
>  i just downloaded and checked out your phpESP - very slick. we're currently
> looking at developing a php/sql based application to build web surveys with
> and to save time i think we're gonna be using phpESP as our starting point.
> 
>  currently we use commercial windows software to build our web based surveys,
> and there are some features that we'll be needing to implement
> (question/answer 'piping', answer based 'skips') and whatnot; as well as using
> adodb for the database abstraction layer.
> 
>  our project is starting off just at UCSB with hopes of becoming a joint
> development from all the UC campuses. in doing so we're also planning on
> hosting the cvs repository for our project locally (but will be made available
> publicly.) we already have an extensive set of tools for managing mass-mailing
> of users for surveys that require authentication and data extraction (mostly
> done in perl::dbi.) we'd love to have a single package to handle all the steps
> needed to run a web based survey, so our plans are to extend phpESP to handle
> the following:
> 
>  o admin users database containing login, password, and ACL info for survey
>    creators and data extraction users
>  o web based tool to create survey
>    - surveys must be able to 'pipe' answers (ie: build a new question based on
>      the answer to a previous one)
>    - 'skips' - jump over certain questions based on answers to prior questions
>  o initial import of users (from a csv file, containing at least a login,
>    cleartext password, and a survey name)
>  o mass-mailing of users, sending their cleartext password (optional) in the
>    email and then encrypting it on the fly
>  o mass-mailing a 'reminder' or 'preminder' notice to users who are about to,
>    or who haven't taken the survey yet
>  o web based tool for survey-admins to extract real-time responses
>  o web based tool for survey-admins to display real-time results
> 
>  our current mix of tools provides all of the above except for the web based
> tool to create surveys (which is where phpESP fits into the mix).
> 
>   http://open.survey.ucsb.edu/ - ignore the phpESP imported already, it was
> merely a test.
> 
>          - randall s. ehren       :// 805.893.5632
>             systems administrator :// isber|survey|avss.ucsb.edu
>              institute for social, behavioral, and economic research
> 
> 
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