[phpesp-dev] Respondent database

[Creative M. <Cre...@Pu...>]

Hi There,

I see a lack of functionality in the respondent database. First of all, normally when 
you conduct a study you would not add respondents one by one but rather want to upload 
an entire set of respondents. May I recommend using a non-predefined format for this. 
Respondent information can be very different from survey to survey.

I think you should focus on a Comma Separated file for upload with first line 
containing variable name. After that a guide (as in Excel for instance) where you 
define what kind of variable is in the field.

This would be a good next phase in development before we head on to quota management 
etc. Because if have a survey where you need 500 males and 500 females, you should be 
able to create a field inside the survey which then stores values to the respondent 
database and not just to a datafile. And inside the questionnaire you should be able to 
check whether you have or do not have enough respondents of a certain quota group and 
make a condition to end the survey for that respondent with the motivation that the 
quota group is full.

Any opinions?

// Creative Minds