[phpesp-general] Re: Custom Survey Format Issue

[Alnisa A. <all...@gm...>]

At 8:53 AM -0400 10/9/05, Matthew Gregg wrote:
>I'll have to look around the code to see if this would be possible 
>or addable.  I know a sec=# is POST'ed from the survey on multiple 
>page surveys.  It might be enough to accept that from a GET instead. 
>I'll get back to you.

First off, thanks for all the help and suggestions, some proved quite 
useful.  My original goal was to get phpESP working with custom html 
files, so that questions could be regrouped, and organized in a 
format different than that provided by the auto-generated system. 
Originally I thought redirects and cookies/sessions would work, but 
life was more complicated than that.

So in the quest to get this system working, it was determined that 
the best way to proceed would be to adjust the /public/handler.php 
file.  Since ONLY this survey would be active during the time period, 
I figured we could easily restore the handler to its former state.

So I worked with another programmer, and they  adjusted the 
handler.php file after the end of the JavaScript  which includes 
function other_check(name).  The following text was included:

<?php

function get_values($startnum,$endnum) {
//fetch sql entries from $startnum to $endnum
//return array of values
//$values = array();
/*
$index=1;
for($i=$startnum; $i<=$endnum; i++) {
//fetch sql entry at $i
$thisvalue="?";
$values[$index]=$thisvalue;
}
*/
return 0;
}

function replace_values($formhtml, $values) {
//match <input ... > strings in $formhtml
//replace old value attributes with value stored in $values array
/*
$formhtml = preg_replace($pattern, "<input value=$values[1] $1", $formhtml);
for($i=1; $i<=count($values); i++) {
//match
}
*/
return $formhtml;
}

$sec=$HTTP_POST_VARS['sec'];

if ($sid==3) {
if ($msg!="")
echo "<font color=\"#ff0000\">$msg</font><br><br>";
if ($sec=="1") {
$formhtml = 
file_get_contents('http://nahic.ucsf.edu/phpESP/public/form1.html');
echo replace_values($formhtml, get_values(1,41));

}
else if ($sec=="2") {

$formhtml = 
file_get_contents('http://nahic.ucsf.edu/phpESP/public/form2.html');
echo replace_values($formhtml, get_values(42,55));

}
else if ($sec=="3") {

$formhtml = 
file_get_contents('http://nahic.ucsf.edu/phpESP/public/form3.html');
echo replace_values($formhtml, get_values(56,102));

}
else if ($sec=="4") {

$formhtml = 
file_get_contents('http://nahic.ucsf.edu/phpESP/public/form4.html');
echo replace_values($formhtml, get_values(103,121));

}
else if ($sec=="5") {

$formhtml = 
file_get_contents('http://nahic.ucsf.edu/phpESP/public/form5.html');
echo replace_values($formhtml, get_values(122,140));

}
}
else {
survey_render($sid,$sec,$msg);
}
?>

Basically just a quick script that allows the forms to be encased in 
the system.  This partially works.  If you go to 
http://nahic.ucsf.edu/phpESP/survey.php and log in you'll see that 
the buttons basically work, the problem is:

If the user selects save/submit option, when they resume they are not 
taken back to the page that they stopped on; which would be fine, if 
I could get the forms to echo back priorly submitted data. But it 
seems as if prior data rendering is handled by the 
/admin/function/survey_render.inc file which we're not using.

Does anyone have any ideas on if its possible to use the phpESP 
database queries to retrieve data, without rendering it (displaying 
the html)?  Basically, what I'd like to do is revise the included 
forms so they contain <?=$field?> statements to echo back the current 
data.  I'm also willing to have the echo form be unformatted, so long 
as the next paged called is formatted.

Any ideas??

Alnisa