Re: [phpesp-dev] suggestions

[Kon A. <ang...@ip...>]

Thanks for the contirbution David,
	I'll certainly take a look at your code over the next few days and get back 
to you.

Kon

On Fri, 21 Jun 2002 22:58, David Buchmann wrote:
> 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