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[phpesp-dev] [ phpesp-Bugs-693984 ] bad return link

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Bugs item #693984, was opened at 2003-02-26 17:47
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Category: User
>Group: v1.7
>Status: Closed
>Resolution: Fixed
Priority: 5
Submitted By: moshe weitzman (weitzman)
Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Summary: bad return link

Initial Comment:
the 'return ' link which appears after a survey is
complete works fine after user has completed one survey
but if the user has several surveys to complete,
subsequent displays of that link drop the name=xxxx
querystring parameter and thus lead to a 'survey not
specified' error page

I am using the survey.php?name=x method for displaying
surveys.

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Comment By: James Flemer (jimmerman)
Date: 2003-03-27 23:12

Message:
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user_id=39444

Fixed in CVS.

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Comment By: James Flemer (jimmerman)
Date: 2003-03-04 19:34

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Use a page linking to the survey.php?name=x page, then the
redirection will be to there, and work as many times as
necessary.

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[phpesp-dev] [ phpesp-Bugs-701626 ] SERVER_PORT missing for servers not running on port 80

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Bugs item #701626, was opened at 2003-03-11 11:02
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Category: None
Group: v1.6
>Status: Closed
>Resolution: Fixed
Priority: 5
Submitted By: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
>Summary: SERVER_PORT missing for servers not running on port  80

Initial Comment:
':' . $s['SERVER_PORT'] is missing in index.php and in
admin/index.php.


rc...@dm...

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Comment By: James Flemer (jimmerman)
Date: 2003-03-27 22:25

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Fixed in CVS.

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[phpesp-dev] [ phpesp-Bugs-702809 ] copy answer with a ' gives \'

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Bugs item #702809, was opened at 2003-03-13 03:42
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Category: Admin
Group: None
>Status: Closed
>Resolution: Fixed
Priority: 5
Submitted By: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Summary: copy answer with a ' gives \'

Initial Comment:
I think a very small bug in questions.inc in the 
answerlines.
When you fill in a answer ' the answerline is copied to 
the next new question (nice function).
Bug: When you do this wit a ' in the answer (for 
example the word: project's) the copied answer fields 
will display project\'s instaed of project's. Copy again 
will display project\'s etc.

Eric Bont



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Comment By: James Flemer (jimmerman)
Date: 2003-03-27 22:05

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Fixed in CVS.

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[phpesp-dev] Donation ideas?

[Dee D. <de...@dr...>]

Hi Y'all!

I've been emailing with James about donating to phpESP, but right now,
he doesn't have anything set up to receive donations. He suggested that
I ask here for ideas...

I have money, but I'm also a fair-to-middlin' digital artist.  Would my
skills be a better donation? 

Thanks for creating such a wonderful program!

-Dee Dreslough
www.dreslough.com <- my art
www.sportsmogul.com <- my job

[phpesp-dev] [ phpesp-Bugs-710970 ] documentation has wrong admin pw (1.6)

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Bugs item #710970, was opened at 2003-03-27 15:05
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Category: SQL
Group: None
>Status: Closed
>Resolution: Fixed
Priority: 5
Submitted By: Christopher Kolar (ckolar)
Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Summary: documentation has wrong admin pw (1.6)

Initial Comment:
Hi.  I have been using phpESP for a while and all of
the upgrades always go well.  I was recently installing
fresh on a new server and ran intoa  problem with the
docs having the wrong admin password.

In section 2a of the INSTALL docs it tells you that the
default password is "phpesp".  I did not install from
the CLI, but instead created the empty db and then used
phpMyAdmin to populate the db using the
mysql_populate.sql file.  Without modification, the
password that it passed to ESP user root is "esp".  

You may want to review the docs to make sure that they
are in sync with the new release.

Cheers,

--chris

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Comment By: James Flemer (jimmerman)
Date: 2003-03-27 21:58

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Fixed in CVS.

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[phpesp-dev] [ phpesp-Bugs-710970 ] documentation has wrong admin pw (1.6)

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Bugs item #710970, was opened at 2003-03-27 14:05
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Category: SQL
Group: None
Status: Open
Resolution: None
Priority: 5
Submitted By: Christopher Kolar (ckolar)
Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Summary: documentation has wrong admin pw (1.6)

Initial Comment:
Hi.  I have been using phpESP for a while and all of
the upgrades always go well.  I was recently installing
fresh on a new server and ran intoa  problem with the
docs having the wrong admin password.

In section 2a of the INSTALL docs it tells you that the
default password is "phpesp".  I did not install from
the CLI, but instead created the empty db and then used
phpMyAdmin to populate the db using the
mysql_populate.sql file.  Without modification, the
password that it passed to ESP user root is "esp".  

You may want to review the docs to make sure that they
are in sync with the new release.

Cheers,

--chris

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Re: [phpesp-dev] feature request / proposal.

[James E. F. <jf...@ac...>]

You can achieve this by creating a user with the same username
and password in different groups.  It is not the ideal solution,
but it work without changing any code.

-James

On Tue, 25 Mar 2003, "Raúl D. Pittí P." wrote:

> is there a way to associate a respondent eith several groups?
> imagine a college career, where the students recieved classes from
> various teachers, and each class has a class id.  in order for the
> students to access the surveys/exams posted by a teacher they must be
> associated with the group wich is managed by the teacher.
> maybe this can be done usign an auxiliary table wich will keep tracking
> of the various groups permited per student or associate.
> The same relation apply to the surveys creators, they can teach
> differents courses to several groups.
> I'm not a programmer, but know enough to help  if anyone decided to
> tackle this!
> RP
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[phpesp-dev] feature request / proposal.

[<rau...@ya...>]

is there a way to associate a respondent eith several groups?
imagine a college career, where the students recieved classes from 
various teachers, and each class has a class id.  in order for the 
students to access the surveys/exams posted by a teacher they must be 
associated with the group wich is managed by the teacher.
maybe this can be done usign an auxiliary table wich will keep tracking 
of the various groups permited per student or associate.
The same relation apply to the surveys creators, they can teach 
differents courses to several groups.
I'm not a programmer, but know enough to help  if anyone decided to 
tackle this!
RP

[phpesp-dev] [ phpesp-Feature Requests-706711 ] Script Question Type

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Feature Requests item #706711, was opened at 2003-03-19 21:05
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Category: survey format
Group: None
Status: Open
Priority: 5
Submitted By: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Summary: Script Question Type

Initial Comment:
It would be good if there was a question type which 
instead of being displayed would be actually run as php 
code.

I have hacked this up for myself as a temporary 
measure. Basically in our system if somebody creates a 
SectionText question and the text starts with 
RUN_ME_PLEASE then the text is run as php. For 
example is a SectionText had its value as:

RUN_ME_PLEASE
include "blah.php";

Then whatever displays as a result of blah.php will be 
displayed. This is a great way to extend the functionality 
of the surveys. This is done by hacking the 
render_survey.php file to contain in the $tid=100 section 
the following:

<td class="qnInner" width="100%" height="35"><?
if(substr($question['content'],0,13)=="RUN_ME_PLEASE")
{
        eval(substr($question['content'],13));
}else{
        echo $question['content'];
}
?></td>

instead of the <td>blah blah blah it had</td>

So it would be good if there was a type which did this 
automatically.

Sure this could be security hole. But you could make it so 
that it is disabled.

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[phpesp-dev] [ phpesp-Feature Requests-573854 ] Randomisation

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Feature Requests item #573854, was opened at 2002-06-25 15:48
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Category: None
Group: None
Status: Open
Priority: 5
Submitted By: Fredrik Clementz (rebirth)
Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Summary: Randomisation

Initial Comment:
Response codes inside a question should be possible to 
randomise.

There is a psychological effect on people to 
influence the human mind to read from top to bottom. This means in 
a multiple question for instance, the top codes will most likely have 
a "bias" to be more clicked in rather than low response codes (top 
would mean higher up on the screen).

So what should be 
done here is the option of having a randomisation box so question 
get's randomised. Also important here is that some items must be 
able to be kept in bottom such as "None of the above" or "Refuse to 
Answer" or "don't know". So here as in the other request there 
would be a need for a "no control" of certain items, or should it be 
called "not randomised"?




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Comment By: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Date: 2003-03-19 21:00

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I also require the same randomization functionality fro the 
same reason.

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Comment By: Klaas Chielens (haaid)
Date: 2003-03-03 15:21

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well; it would change the result exactly because of the fact 
that this laziness only kicks in after a couple of questions. 


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Comment By: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Date: 2002-07-06 03:31

Message:
Logged In: NO 

Any researcher knows that the first questions you ask in a survey tend to 
get "higher quality" than questions asked later in the questionnaire. The 
more questions you push someone to answer, the more it effects the 
quality...

So why do you randomise then?

Let's say you 
have 5 different questions to benchmark a product on different variables 
that might interfer. On a phone for instance that would be perhaps 
batteries, design, size, functionality.... 

If they are not 
randomised and you do a regression analysis afterwards, the values will 
be messed up. However if you do randomisation, you know that the bias 
will be equal on all of the questions asked and you can therefor make a 
more correct analysis. 

Would that answer your question?

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Comment By: Kon Angelopoulos (angek)
Date: 2002-06-26 06:10

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so what you're saying is that people are too lazy to read the 
options and tend to just tick/select the uppermost choices. If 
that's the case, how does randomising the choices to a 
question solve anything?


Kon

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[phpesp-dev] [ phpesp-Feature Requests-706206 ] branching

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Feature Requests item #706206, was opened at 2003-03-19 05:58
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Category: survey format
Group: None
>Status: Deleted
Priority: 5
Submitted By: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Summary: branching

Initial Comment:
if the respondent can skip some next sections or some 
questions based on the previous answers, it will be very 
helpful.

Cheers,



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>Comment By: Matthew Gregg (greggmc)
Date: 2003-03-19 09:35

Message:
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user_id=14116

Duplicate of RFE #491535

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[phpesp-dev] [ phpesp-Feature Requests-706197 ] self define the rate scale.

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Feature Requests item #706197, was opened at 2003-03-19 05:48
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Category: survey format
Group: None
>Status: Deleted
Priority: 5
Submitted By: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Summary: self define the rate scale.

Initial Comment:
in general, scale from 1 to 5 is enough. but somebody 
may want to define a scale from 1 to 6 or more.

So it may be better to support the self defined scale.

Cheers,


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>Comment By: Matthew Gregg (greggmc)
Date: 2003-03-19 09:33

Message:
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Feature already implemented.

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Comment By: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Date: 2003-03-19 09:16

Message:
Logged In: NO 

This function is already available.
When you create a question with a rating,
you can change the field lenght to what ever 
you want. Standard is 5, but you can change 
the default-setting!
The phpESP is working great, I think.
Yours

Boris Hirschmann

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[phpesp-dev] [ phpesp-Feature Requests-706197 ] self define the rate scale.

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Feature Requests item #706197, was opened at 2003-03-19 02:48
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Category: survey format
Group: None
Status: Open
Priority: 5
Submitted By: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Summary: self define the rate scale.

Initial Comment:
in general, scale from 1 to 5 is enough. but somebody 
may want to define a scale from 1 to 6 or more.

So it may be better to support the self defined scale.

Cheers,


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Comment By: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Date: 2003-03-19 06:16

Message:
Logged In: NO 

This function is already available.
When you create a question with a rating,
you can change the field lenght to what ever 
you want. Standard is 5, but you can change 
the default-setting!
The phpESP is working great, I think.
Yours

Boris Hirschmann

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[phpesp-dev] [ phpesp-Feature Requests-706210 ] present the error message

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Feature Requests item #706210, was opened at 2003-03-19 03:05
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Category: gui
Group: None
Status: Open
Priority: 5
Submitted By: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Summary: present the error message 

Initial Comment:
it will be  a convinence and fast way to use javascript to 
check the validation of the input data and popup a small 
error message box to the respondent when they miss or 
give incorrect data.

To show the error message at the top of a page is not a 
good way so.

Cheers,


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[phpesp-dev] [ phpesp-Feature Requests-706206 ] branching

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Feature Requests item #706206, was opened at 2003-03-19 02:58
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Category: survey format
Group: None
Status: Open
Priority: 5
Submitted By: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Summary: branching

Initial Comment:
if the respondent can skip some next sections or some 
questions based on the previous answers, it will be very 
helpful.

Cheers,



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[phpesp-dev] [ phpesp-Feature Requests-706201 ] self defined error message

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Feature Requests item #706201, was opened at 2003-03-19 02:53
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Category: None
Group: None
Status: Open
Priority: 5
Submitted By: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Summary: self defined error message

Initial Comment:
it may be better to give the change to the designer to 
define the error message when a question has been 
missed or not completed or given incorrect data (i.e. 
input letters instead of a number.)

Cheers,


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[phpesp-dev] [ phpesp-Feature Requests-706197 ] self define the rate scale.

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Feature Requests item #706197, was opened at 2003-03-19 02:48
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Category: survey format
Group: None
Status: Open
Priority: 5
Submitted By: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Summary: self define the rate scale.

Initial Comment:
in general, scale from 1 to 5 is enough. but somebody 
may want to define a scale from 1 to 6 or more.

So it may be better to support the self defined scale.

Cheers,


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[phpesp-dev] Re: using cvs for phpesp development (James E. Flemer)

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

Hi.

I'd just like to contribute a couple useful links with regard to CVS for
those of us using Windows.

There is a long list of resources at the _bottom_ of this page:
http://www.wincvs.org/
- I've successfully used WinMerge and TortoiseCVS which are linked on the
url above.

Also, over at http://www.delorie.com/djgpp/dl/ you can find Windows ports of
various GNU tools, including cvs and patch.



Regards!

Leonard

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[phpesp-dev] Re: phpesp semantic question type (fwd)

[James E. F. <jf...@ac...>]

I have added another patch to the phpESP contrib/ directory.
This patch from Rebecca Swartz adds a new question type which
she describes below.

http://phpesp.sf.net/files/contrib/rebecca-semantic-README
http://phpesp.sf.net/files/contrib/rebecca-semantic-diff

-James

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Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2003 13:52:13 -0800 (PST)
From: rebecca swartz <rss...@ya...>
To: James E. Flemer <jf...@ac...>
Subject: Re: phpesp semantic question type

New Question Type: Semantic Differential

Semantic Differential questions are very similar to
rank questions, except there is a set of text on both
the left & right of the rank area.

You are trying to measure survey-takers connotations
or the psychological distance between words.

For example:
Survey takers are given a word/topic like: Computers
Then they are given several semantic questions like:
Relaxed ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ Tense
Weak    ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ Strong
Good    ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ Bad

Its an extension of a likert (what phpesp calls rank)
question.  Although it takes it a bit farther, because
Semantic Differential can measure 1) activity factors
(relaxed/tense), 2) potency factors (weak/strong), and
3) evaluative factors (good/bad).


Rebecca


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[phpesp-dev] using cvs for phpesp development

[James E. F. <jf...@ac...>]

I wrote a quick intro to using cvs for phpESP development to one
of our contributers.  I think this might be useful to other
contributers, so I am posting it here so it gets in the
archives.

Here is how I typically work when using source code in cvs.
First pick a directory where you are going to work out of; on
unix I use /usr/local/www/htdocs/dev, on windows you might use
something like c:\www\dev.  The first step is to check out a
clean copy of the phpESP source here:

$ cd /usr/local/www/htdocs/dev
$ cvs -d:pserver:ano...@cv...:/cvsroot/phpesp co phpESP
$ cd phpESP

Now, just do all your modifications in this directory.  You do
not even have to have another copy of phpESP on your system at
all.  By using CVS, you can generate diff without another copy.
As you are making your changes, you probably want to stay
current with changes being made by other developers.  To do so,
you simply use the cvs 'update' command:

$ cd /usr/local/www/htdocs/dev/phpESP
$ cvs up

This will merge any new changes in the source tree into your
copy, preserving any changes you have made.  In some cases, if
you change a line that has also been changed by someone else,
you get what is called a merge conflict[1].  To resolve a merge
conflict, just edit the file and find the section(s) marked with
"<<<<<<" and ">>>>>>" and fix them.

Now, when you are satisfied with your changes and are ready to
submit them you do the following.  Make sure the sources are up
to date, fix any conflicts if there are any, then generate a
diff.

$ cd /usr/local/www/htdocs/dev/phpESP
$ cvs up
 -- fix merge conflicts if any --
$ cvs diff -bu >patch-file

It is a good idea to review the patch-file to make sure there
aren't anything like database passwords in it.  Then email it to
the devel list as an attachment with a subject starting with
"[patch]".  If it is over 40kb, send it directly to me.

Now, if your patch is merged into the main tree, the next time
you run a 'cvs up' on your computer you will see lots of
messages like:

changes in revision 1.15 already in public/handler.php

If your patch is changed at all before it is committed to the
main tree it will probably create a lot of merge conflicts when
you cvs up.  If this is the case, you have two options.  If you
have not made any changes since the patch was submitted, you can
simply start over by checking out a new copy (cvs co), and
working from there.  If you have made changes since submitting
the patch, you will have to resolve the conflicts by hand.

Please let me know if you have any questions when using cvs.
There are also several good cvs resources online, mainly the GNU
cvs manual[2] and the Cederqvist[3].

[1] http://www.gnu.org/manual/cvs/html_chapter/cvs_7.html#SEC40
[2] http://www.gnu.org/manual/cvs/
[3] http://www.cvshome.org/docs/manual/

-James

[phpesp-dev] phpesp rewrite

[James E. F. <jf...@ac...>]

Like OO-style PHP?  Like PEAR?

http://www.acm.jhu.edu/~jflemer/esp_recode/

I've started a little work on rewriting phpESP in PEAR OO-style
PHP.  I'm trying to achieve a good MVC design here.  The code so
far is part of the Model, but it's not complete.  I want to use
Smarty templates for the View, and am not sure about the
Controller design yet.

Comments?
-James

Re: [phpesp-dev] phpESP - Reversals

[James E. F. <jf...@ac...>]

I've taken the most recent patch from Rebecca and updated it so
it applies to cvs HEAD.  It is available in the contrib/
directory on the web site as 'rebecca-reversal'.

  http://phpesp.sf.net/files/contrib/

-James


On Fri, 1 Nov 2002, rebecca swartz wrote:

> Topic:
> Reversal Indicator
>
> What:
> A way to identify questions which need to have their
> answers reversed before scoring the item.
>
> Where:
> Add 1 column to phpesp.question table.  Column name
> would be 'reversal'
>
> Value:
> Reversal could have a value of blank(null) or 'R';
> defaults to blank (null).
>
> Why:
> Makes it much, much easier to automate scoring on
> likert scale items and ensure they are accurate.
>
> Example:
> Do you like Chocolate Survey
> 1 = Strongly Agree, 2 = Agree, 3 = Neutral, 4 =
> Disagree, 5 = Strongly Disagree
>
> Questions:
> Landru answers:
> Q1.  I like chocolate         : 1 (strongly agree)
> Q2.  I do not like chocolate  : 5 (strongly disagree)
>
> Currently the average score is 3 (neutral) (1 + 5 = 6
> / 2 questions = average score of 3).
>
> The score should be: 1 + (question 2 answer treated as
> a reversal = 6 - answer) 1 = average score of 1
> (strongly agree) (1 + (6 - 1) = 2 / 2 questions =
> average score of 1).
>
> Modules impacted:
> include>tab>questions.inc
> include>functions>survey_export_csv.inc
>
> Table impacted:
> phpESP.question
>
> Any comments?  Feels like I've missed another screen
> (module) that should be updated.
>
> Bekasu
>
>
>
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Re: [phpesp-dev] question templates

[<de...@go...>]

Not to sound too daft but.....

Why not just implement a boolean field for questions defining them as
template questions? Then any question could be turned into a template.

When a TQ was added to a survey the clone question would have this set to
FALSE so you wouldn't accidentally end up with 27 TQs.

So what am I missing that makes this not feasible?

Jason

> As I was working on some phpESP code today, I thought of a
> simple way to implement question templates.  It would be fairly
> trivial.  All that we need to do is to define a "magic survey
> number" (or name), and any question in that magic survey would
> be a template.  The gui could be pretty simple: On the standard
> question tab there could be a 'add this as a template' feature
> that would copy the current question to the magic survey.
> There could also be a drop-down or pop-up for loading a template
> to use.  We could also add a template editor, that would pretty
> much just be the question tab w/o the other tabs.
>
> The magic survey id would have the status set to deleted to keep
> it from showing up anywhere else, and perhaps have a new bit set
> to mark it as magic.  (This magic bit would keep it from showing
> up on the purge page, and any future archive manager.)
>
> Any comments?  Anyone want to code this up?  I may code it at
> some point, but I just wanted to share my thought so someone
> else might remember it as so as it vanishes from my head.
>
> Take it easy,
> -James
>
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Re: [phpesp-dev] question templates

[angek <ang...@ip...>]

Interesting concept James,

One worth some thought.

Kon


On Sun, 2003-03-16 at 14:13, James E. Flemer wrote:
> As I was working on some phpESP code today, I thought of a
> simple way to implement question templates.  It would be fairly
> trivial.  All that we need to do is to define a "magic survey
> number" (or name), and any question in that magic survey would
> be a template.  The gui could be pretty simple: On the standard
> question tab there could be a 'add this as a template' feature
> that would copy the current question to the magic survey.
> There could also be a drop-down or pop-up for loading a template
> to use.  We could also add a template editor, that would pretty
> much just be the question tab w/o the other tabs.
> 
> The magic survey id would have the status set to deleted to keep
> it from showing up anywhere else, and perhaps have a new bit set
> to mark it as magic.  (This magic bit would keep it from showing
> up on the purge page, and any future archive manager.)
> 
> Any comments?  Anyone want to code this up?  I may code it at
> some point, but I just wanted to share my thought so someone
> else might remember it as so as it vanishes from my head.
> 
> Take it easy,
> -James
> 
> 
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[phpesp-dev] question templates

[James E. F. <jf...@ac...>]

As I was working on some phpESP code today, I thought of a
simple way to implement question templates.  It would be fairly
trivial.  All that we need to do is to define a "magic survey
number" (or name), and any question in that magic survey would
be a template.  The gui could be pretty simple: On the standard
question tab there could be a 'add this as a template' feature
that would copy the current question to the magic survey.
There could also be a drop-down or pop-up for loading a template
to use.  We could also add a template editor, that would pretty
much just be the question tab w/o the other tabs.

The magic survey id would have the status set to deleted to keep
it from showing up anywhere else, and perhaps have a new bit set
to mark it as magic.  (This magic bit would keep it from showing
up on the purge page, and any future archive manager.)

Any comments?  Anyone want to code this up?  I may code it at
some point, but I just wanted to share my thought so someone
else might remember it as so as it vanishes from my head.

Take it easy,
-James