[phpesp-dev] Papaya Polls - a hosted survey provider originally based on phpESP code.

[Leonard C. <le...@pe...>]

Hello Everyone,

Before going any further, I would like to thank James, and the rest of the
phpESP developers for creating and developing phpESP. I commend you all on
the excellent work.  phpESP was by far the best Open Source survey package
that I could find when I first found and used it for a University project
1.5 years ago.

Second, a brief introduction, my name is Leonard Chan, and I own a tiny
(i.e. 1 man) company, Perceptus Solutions Inc., that provides various geeky
services in and around Vancouver, Canada.  I've been working on creating a
hosted online survey service based off of the phpESP code.  The project was
finally launched about two weeks ago, and you are all invited to have a look
at it, Papaya Polls (http://PapayaPolls.com/index.php).  It's a completely
web based service intended for people who have no interest or desire to deal
with web hosting, programming, or databases.  Thus, it is not really a
service intended for the majority of the audience of this mailing list.

That said, why am I posting this at all?  Well, I've benefited by using the
phpESP code as a base, yet, to date, I've been unable to provide more than a
single small patch and a couple of bug reports through Sourceforge.  So, I
would like to offer a small token or two to attempt to amend this.

I am offering to port some of the code from Papaya Polls back into phpESP;
however, there is a big caveat.  Much of the code would be impractical to
port, given the substantial changes to the structure of BOTH code bases over
the last several months - not to mention my rather poor programming
abilities. =) But, if a specific feature is requested, and it is at all
practical to provide a patch, I would be happy to do so.  The "filtered
results" feature might be a good candidate as it doesn't involve too many
files.

In lieu of code, here's what I would like to offer.  I am running a referral
program with PapayaPolls.com.  For any accounts that register with "phpESP"
in the referrer field of their sign up form, I will gladly credit the phpESP
account (which has already been reserved) with 10% of any net proceeds for
the first year that those referred customers are with Papaya Polls. Whenever
this account reaches any significant balance ($100?), I will forward the
balance to James for him to dispense as he wishes. The total dollar value
may never amount to much, though I certainly hope that it does.

In closing, I hope my basing a commercial product on phpESP doesn't ruffle
too many feathers.  Not to make this too much of a plug, but if you, or
someone you know requires hosted survey services, please consider Papaya
Polls and use "phpESP" as the referrer.  You can use this URL which
automatically carries the phpESP referral info,
http://www.papayapolls.com/admin/signup.php?referrer_id=phpESP.  Thank for
reading this far.  Please let me know your comments or concerns, on mailing
list or off.


Have a good one!

Leonard Chan
le...@pe...
Man of Many Hats
Perceptus Solutions Inc.
http://www.perceptus.ca