[phpesp-dev] suggestions

[David B. <dav...@un...>]

hi

first, thanks for your great work! 
i installed phpESP for a survey here at the university of fribourg and it runs
with no problems. we run a survey with some 800 selected partipiciants.

i hacked two things into phpESP. i am not a experienced php developper, so its
not very nice code... i send you what i've done as a suggestion and a draft of
how you could implement it if you want.

what i did: 
- as we had hundreds of users to enter, we needed a form to enter user data not
1 by 1 but as a cvs.
- we did not want the username:password scheme but just a personal id. i made a
new authentication scheme i call ID_FORM. username and password are the same.
for auth we do not use the http method but show a form with a field and a submit
button. as an extra, this allows to send a "personal link" for a survey: just
add a ?userid=xy to the url and you are logged in...

- we had some questions about countries and languages. as there are many, many
countries around the world, it would be rather hard to create a normal dropdown
question and enter all countries for each question. i added the new question
types country and language.

i attached two files describing where i did what, plus a tar of my modified
phpESP as it is turning at university now (version 1.3 plus the download cvs
from 1.4)

i hope this can help you improve phpESP.

david
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David Buchmann, Student DIUF Uni Fribourg, http://diuf.unifr.ch