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[phpesp-general] Limiting the number of responses to a multiple choice question

[Franky V. L. <lie...@te...>]

For the moment this is not possible (correct me if I'm wrong) because there exists no html equivalent of this (maybe in javascript). You may file a feature request for this if you want. I find this an interesting feature as well and might just implement it next week.

Franky


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Subject: [phpesp-general] Limiting the number of responses to a multiple choice question

I would like to be able to limit the number of answers that a user can check
in a multiple choice question. For example I have 6 possible answers and
users can only chose 3 of them. Is there a way of doing this.

Many thanks

Frank

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[phpesp-general] Limiting the number of responses to a multiple choice question

[Frank R. <fr...@fr...>]

I would like to be able to limit the number of answers that a user can check
in a multiple choice question. For example I have 6 possible answers and
users can only chose 3 of them. Is there a way of doing this.

Many thanks

Frank

Frank Roper | frankweb | fr...@fr... | 01992 700581
Visit our site: www.frankweb.co.uk

[phpesp-general] nuke

[THomas J. <tc...@gi...>]

 

My website uses nuke and I would like to use phpesp.  I am having trouble
loading the files properly.  Is there some place that explains the setup for
Nuke?

 

TIA TOM

 

www.tillitomas.com

Re: [phpesp-general] Creating Survey based on Projects.

[Franky V. L. <lie...@te...>]

Devarajan Ramakrishnan wrote:
> 
> 
> Hello,
> 
>             I am trying to create a survey with the following requirement
> 
> 1. Survey should cater to a set of respondents (say 20 of them)
> 
> 2. Each respondent should be able to fill out the same survey as many
> times as there are selections from a list (say 10 selections per user)
> 
>  
> 
>             To give a scenario, let us assume the list of respondents is
> a set of project managers managing different number of projects. All I
> need is when a Project manager logs in as a respondent; he should be
> able to respond to the survey as many times as the number of projects
> managed by him by choosing the appropriate Project from a list. Is this
> possible with phpESP? How can I achieve this functionality?
> 
>  
> 
> Thank you,
> 
> Ramki.


This is not really "survey" functionality. To achieve this: create your
own login page; so when someone logs in, they see their list of projects
and for each project a link to a survey (you need to create this page
yourself). For the login: try to use the database of phpESP for
usernames and passwords.
For the surveys: create 10 copies of the same survey, not much work
about that (5 minutes and you have 10 identical surveys, just change
their name to match your projects).
Since survey.php can work with the name of the survey as a parameter in
the url, create surveys with a name logically linked to each project, so
then this list can be generated by a script, and if a new project is
added you just need to create a survey with the same name.

Hope this helps,

Franky

[phpesp-general] Creating Survey based on Projects.

[Devarajan R. <dev...@az...>]

Hello,

            I am trying to create a survey with the following
requirement

1. Survey should cater to a set of respondents (say 20 of them)

2. Each respondent should be able to fill out the same survey as many
times as there are selections from a list (say 10 selections per user)

=0D

            To give a scenario, let us assume the list of respondents is
a set of project managers managing different number of projects. All I
need is when a Project manager logs in as a respondent; he should be
able to respond to the survey as many times as the number of projects
managed by him by choosing the appropriate Project from a list. Is this
possible with phpESP? How can I achieve this functionality?

=0D

Thank you,

Ramki.




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Re: [phpesp-general] Question about preventing duplicate submission on anonymous survey & unique identifier

[Franky V. L. <lie...@te...>]

On Sun, 10 Dec 2006 13:06:12 -0500
"Susan Bilheimer" <su...@mi...> wrote:

> I just auto-installed phpESP on my BlueHost account. It's great.
> However, my survey is anonymous and I want to prevent duplicate
> entries and maybe create a unique identifier for each respondent. Is
> there a way to do this?
> 
> Thanks,
> Susan

Hi,

please take a look at the version I've changed on my website, it has
usage of cookies to prevent double postings, usage of captcha to
prevent automatic scripted fill-in.
Website: http://www.e-dynamics.be/index.php?section=programs&lang=en

Of course: read the changelog to help you in the usage of the new
features.

Franky

[phpesp-general] Question about preventing duplicate submission on anonymous survey & unique identifier

[Susan B. <su...@mi...>]

I just auto-installed phpESP on my BlueHost account. It's great. =
However, my survey is anonymous and I want to prevent duplicate entries =
and maybe create a unique identifier for each respondent. Is there a way =
to do this?

Thanks,
Susan

[phpesp-general] captcha feature

[Franky V. L. <lie...@te...>]

Hi all,

for those interested: I've added a captcha to the code, to limit
scripted abuse. The option is "use_captcha" in the admin ini file.
I've also bumped up the version string to 1.8.2d to reflect these changes.

As usual: see http://www.e-dynamics.be/index.php?section=programs&lang=en


Franky

Re: [phpesp-general] some fixes and limit double postings

[Franky V. L. <lie...@te...>]

Again for those interested: I changed some of the code: I added a file
public/phpESP.first.php that needs to be included in all php survey
pages you show on the web using handler.php.
The reason for this: phpESP now uses a cookie to prevent double postings
(if wanted/configured), and using handler.php within a page prevented
the cookie from being set correctly (because headers already sent to the
browser). I worked around this with ob_start() first, but that was an
ugly solution, so now I created phpESP.first.php, that does this, but it
needs to be included at the top of every php page you use to show surveys.

As usual: see http://www.e-dynamics.be/index.php?section=programs&lang=en

Enjoy!

Franky Van Liedekerke wrote:
> For those who would like to use my changed version: go to
> 
> http://www.e-dynamics.be/index.php?section=programs&lang=en
> 
> Franky

Re: [phpesp-general] some fixes and limit double postings

[Franky V. L. <lie...@te...>]

For those who would like to use my changed version: go to

http://www.e-dynamics.be/index.php?section=programs&lang=en

Franky

Franky Van Liedekerke wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> for all of you to enjoy: I've submitted some patches to phpESP 1.8.2, see:
> http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1598273&group_id=8956&atid=308956
> 
> And for those who would like it:
> I've changed handler.php (the same code can be re-used in survey.php) to
> limit double postings through the use of a cookie. It can be configured
> in the phpESP.ini.php file, and is disabled by default (so double
> postings allowed). If people are interested in this, I can post the
> differences to handler.php.
> 
> bye,
> 
> Franky
> 

[phpesp-general] some fixes and limit double postings

[Franky V. L. <lie...@te...>]

Hi all,

for all of you to enjoy: I've submitted some patches to phpESP 1.8.2, see:
http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1598273&group_id=8956&atid=308956

And for those who would like it:
I've changed handler.php (the same code can be re-used in survey.php) to
limit double postings through the use of a cookie. It can be configured
in the phpESP.ini.php file, and is disabled by default (so double
postings allowed). If people are interested in this, I can post the
differences to handler.php.

bye,

Franky

[phpesp-general] Style Sheet problems with Firefox

[Kent V. <kvi...@up...>]

Hey folks,

I'm running phpESP version 1.8.2 and it works great with a large 
exception. The Style sheet does not show up in IE 7 or Firefox (I tried 
version 1.0-2) - It shows up fine in IE 6 - Does anyone have any ideas - 
The surveys are pretty crappy looking without the stye sheets!!!

I'm at a loss as to what could be wrong - it worked fine until I 
upgraded to 1.8.2.

Any advice would be great

thanks
Kent

[phpesp-general] Survey is shown blank

[Kailas R. <ka...@gm...>]

Hi,
After the survey is activated and accessed, it is showing only blank page.
Here is my sample survey
link: http://www.youplore.com/phpESP/public/survey.php?name=test1

Following is the result of
http://www.youplore.com/survey/phpESP/admin/test.php
Do you see any issues with this?.

PHP Information

   - Version: 4.3.6
   - OS: FreeBSD
   - SAPI: cgi
   - register_globals: Yes
   - magic_quotes_gpc: Yes
   - magic_quotes_runtime: No
   - safe_mode: No
   - open_basedir:

PHP Extensions

   - dBase: No
   - GD: Yes -- bundled (2.0.22 compatible)
   - GNU Gettext: Yes
   - LDAP: Yes
   - MySQL: Yes
   - PHP Extension Dir (compiled): /usr/local/lib/php/20020429
   - PHP Extension Dir (run time):
   /usr/local/lib/php/extensions/no-debug-non-zts-20020429/

phpESP Settings

   - Expected ESP_BASE:
   /usr/local/psa/home/vhosts/youplore.com/httpdocs/survey/phpESP/
   - Expected base_url: www.youplore.com/survey/phpESP/
   - *Loading phpESP.ini.php ...*
   - ESP_BASE:
   /usr/local/psa/home/vhosts/youplore.com/httpdocs/survey/phpESP/
   - base_url: http://www.youplore.com/phpESP/
   - Version: 1.8.2
   - Debug: No

phpESP Language Settings

   - GNU Gettext: Real
   - default_lang: en_US
   - current lang: en_US
   - available langs: da_DK, de_DE, el_GR, en_US, es_ES, fi, fi_FI,
   fr_FR, hu_HU, it_IT, ja_JP, nl_NL, pt_BR, pt_PT, sv_SE
   (da, de, el, en, es, fi, fr, it, ja, nl, pt, sv)
   - GNU Gettext test: Passed
   - Catalog Open Test: Yes

PHP Session Test

   - session.save_path: /tmp
   - Counter: 1

[phpesp-general] Undefined index Notice

[William C. <cu...@ci...>]

I'm using v1.6.1, and at the end of a survey, after the submit, the
Thank You screen tells me:
 
Notice: Undefined index: SERVER_ADMIN in
c:\inetpub\wwwroot\phpESP\admin\include\lib\espresponse.inc on line
724
 
any advice?  

 
 
 
Bill Curry
METCAD
217-333-4398

[phpesp-general] Undefined index Notice

[William C. <cu...@ci...>]

I'm using v1.6.1, and at the end of a survey, after the submit, the
Thank You screen tells me:
 
Notice: Undefined index: SERVER_ADMIN in
c:\inetpub\wwwroot\phpESP\admin\include\lib\espresponse.inc on line
724
 
any advice?  

 
 
 
Bill Curry
METCAD
217-333-4398

[phpesp-general] (no subject)

[Tim <ti...@my...>]

Can some one please help me. I am trying to put one of my survey into a web
page. I finaly figured out that the page had to be a .php  page instead of
.htm.  Ok now I got this to work. But I get the following line at the top of
the survey before the survey starts. 

 

Is there a way that I can have the results to post on a webpage

 

Thanks 

Tim

 

 

 

 

Warning: session_start() [function.session-start
<http://www.llamashow.com/function.session-start> ]: Cannot send session
cookie - headers already sent by (output started at
/home/llovinll/public_html/llamashow/judge_page.php:10) in
/home/llovinll/public_html/llamashow/phpESP/public/handler-prefix.php on
line 57

Warning: session_start() [function.session-start
<http://www.llamashow.com/function.session-start> ]: Cannot send session
cache limiter - headers already sent (output started at
/home/llovinll/public_html/llamashow/judge_page.php:10) in
/home/llovinll/public_html/llamashow/phpESP/public/handler-prefix.php on
line 57




 

 

 

Re: [phpesp-general] phpESP-general Digest, Vol 5, Issue 12

[Michael M. <mmi...@lc...>]

Okay, solved my own problem..

MYSQL 5.0 uses an authentication protocol that is incompatible with pre 4.1 clients.  I had to reset the phpESP users password in MYSQL using the OLD_PASSWORD function.  Works fine now.

For further info. on this problem, see the MYSQL 5.0 reference manual, A.2.3.


Michael Michalak
Manager - Network Support Services
Little Company of Mary Hospital and Health Care Centers

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> We recently installed phpESP(1.8.2) onto a LAMP server.  We can run the phpESP/admin/test.php without any issues.  When we connect to phpESP/admin/manage.php we come up with the following page:
> 
> HTTP 503 Service Unavailable
> [ Connection to database failed. Please check configuration. ] 
> 
> We have other web pages running fine on this system using PHP and MYSQL.  We even were successfull loging into MYSQL fro the command line with the same userid/password that is set up in phpESP/admin/phpesp.ini.php.
> 
> Here are all the details:
> 
> phpESP - 1.8.2
> PHP - 4.4.4
> Apache - 2.0
> MYSQL - 5.0.19
> SLES - 9sp3
> 
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> Michael Michalak
> Manager - Network Support Services
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[phpesp-general] HTTP 503 Service Unavailable error

[Michael M. <mmi...@lc...>]

We recently installed phpESP(1.8.2) onto a LAMP server.  We can run the phpESP/admin/test.php without any issues.  When we connect to phpESP/admin/manage.php we come up with the following page:

HTTP 503 Service Unavailable
[ Connection to database failed. Please check configuration. ] 

We have other web pages running fine on this system using PHP and MYSQL.  We even were successfull loging into MYSQL fro the command line with the same userid/password that is set up in phpESP/admin/phpesp.ini.php.

Here are all the details:

phpESP - 1.8.2
PHP - 4.4.4
Apache - 2.0
MYSQL - 5.0.19
SLES - 9sp3


Michael Michalak
Manager - Network Support Services
Little Company of Mary Hospital and Health Care Centers

[phpesp-general] Adding Image To Survey

[David C. <da...@si...>]

I would like to add an image to the top of any survey created with the 
default theme. I was hoping someone could help me with this. Any help 
would be appreciated.


Thanks,

David

[phpesp-general] Problems downloading survey

[harry a. <har...@gm...>]

 I have several surveys and each one downloads properly to csv format except
1.

The downloading starts fine but when the status bar at the bottom of IE
reaches almost halfway, the screen pops up showing where to save the file.
When I save the file, the status says 0kb in 1 sec. Basically the file is
empty.

When I look at the survey results it shows I have 600+ entries.

The other problem is I cannot go directly to mySql because I forgot the
password to root.

All I'm interested in is getting the file downloads (data) in this
particular survey.

Any help would be greatly appreciated

Thanks for your help

Harry

[phpesp-general] Php 5.0

[<mik...@la...>]

Can you update me on the support for php 5x and mysql 5x.  I know it was not
supported in the past.  If not, any plans?

Thanks

Mike Mitchell
Manager - Web Applications
Web Technology Services
Library and Archives Canada
613-943-1130

Re: [phpesp-general] more on the ADODB Bug?

[Matt M. <jma...@gm...>]

Here's how I fixed the problem:

One of the servers I used has a PHP debugger on it, and it shows you the
stack trace leading up to the error.  The adodb error is just the result of
the problem, not the problem itself.  The problem, for me was an SQL error
embedded somewhere.  I suspect that there is a DIFFERENT sql error,
somewhere else, that is causing your problem.

Go to about line 858 in adodb.inc.php and add the following line:

echo "$sql<br/>";

this will force the sql statement that is causing the error to be displayed
to the browser.  you can then track down that sql statement that is causing
the problem, and fix it.

-Matt Miller

On 10/23/06, Christopher Kolar <ck...@im...> wrote:
>
>  Hi Everyone (and Matt).  I am seeing some of the same error messages that
> Matt reported last week.  I put in his fix but it did not help me out when
> using the view response report feature.  It is mixed likert and open text
> data.  When I try to look at an individual response I see the text answers
> but no likert items.  Here is a segment of the results page, it continues
> this way all the way down.
>
> Section One: Teaching
> *1.* *What do you see as the strengths of this teacher's approach to
> teaching?*
> *Notice*: Only variable references should be returned by reference in */home/.nana/imsarese/imsaresearch.org/survey/admin/include/lib/adodb/adodb.inc.php
> * on line *859
> *#Response
> *2.* *What suggestions do you have to improve the teaching in this course?
> *
> *Notice*: Only variable references should be returned by reference in */home/.nana/imsarese/imsaresearch.org/survey/admin/include/lib/adodb/adodb.inc.php
> * on line *859
> *#Response
> *3.* *The teacher has clearly communicated the learning objectives and
> expectations of this course.
> Notice*: Only variable references should be returned by reference in */home/.nana/imsarese/imsaresearch.org/survey/admin/include/lib/adodb/adodb.inc.php
> * on line *859
>
> *Running php5.x  mysql 4.1 (dreamhost).  Note it was working earlier in
> the morning and just started throwing the errors all of sudden.  Any
> suggestions?  Thanks,
>
> --chris
>
>
> At 03:54 PM 10/16/2006, you wrote:
>
> Hello, I just fixed the issue I reported 2 hours ago.
>
> On about line 203 of where/crosstab.inc
>
>                 $sql1 = "SELECT count(*) FROM
> ".$GLOBALS['ESPCONFIG'][$tbl[0].'_table']." r1,
> ".$GLOBALS['ESPCONFIG'][$tbl[1].'_table']." r2
>                 WHERE (r1.question_id = ${qids[0]} AND r1.choice_id =
> '${xx}')
>                 AND (r2.question_id = ${qids[1]} AND r2.choice_id =
> '${yy}')
>
>
> I added the single quotes around ${xx} and ${yy}
>
> The lack of single quotes was throwing an error, thinking I was looking at
> columns named Y or N as opposed to looking at the value within the column.
>
> -Matt Miller
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------
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> easier
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Re: [phpesp-general] more on the ADODB Bug?

[Christopher K. <ck...@im...>]

Hi Everyone (and Matt).  I am seeing some of the same error messages 
that Matt reported last week.  I put in his fix but it did not help 
me out when using the view response report feature.  It is mixed 
likert and open text data.  When I try to look at an individual 
response I see the text answers but no likert items.  Here is a 
segment of the results page, it continues this way all the way down.

Section One: Teaching
1. What do you see as the strengths of this teacher's approach to teaching?
Notice: Only variable references should be returned by reference in 
/home/.nana/imsarese/imsaresearch.org/survey/admin/include/lib/adodb/adodb.inc.php 
on line 859
#Response
2. What suggestions do you have to improve the teaching in this course?
Notice: Only variable references should be returned by reference in 
/home/.nana/imsarese/imsaresearch.org/survey/admin/include/lib/adodb/adodb.inc.php 
on line 859
#Response
3. The teacher has clearly communicated the learning objectives and 
expectations of this course.
Notice: Only variable references should be returned by reference in 
/home/.nana/imsarese/imsaresearch.org/survey/admin/include/lib/adodb/adodb.inc.php 
on line 859

Running php5.x  mysql 4.1 (dreamhost).  Note it was working earlier 
in the morning and just started throwing the errors all of 
sudden.  Any suggestions?  Thanks,

--chris


At 03:54 PM 10/16/2006, you wrote:
>Hello, I just fixed the issue I reported 2 hours ago.
>
>On about line 203 of where/crosstab.inc
>
>                 $sql1 = "SELECT count(*) FROM 
> ".$GLOBALS['ESPCONFIG'][$tbl[0].'_table']." r1, 
> ".$GLOBALS['ESPCONFIG'][$tbl[1].'_table']." r2
>                 WHERE (r1.question_id = ${qids[0]} AND r1.choice_id 
> = '${xx}')
>                 AND (r2.question_id = ${qids[1]} AND r2.choice_id = '${yy}')
>
>
>I added the single quotes around ${xx} and ${yy}
>
>The lack of single quotes was throwing an error, thinking I was 
>looking at columns named Y or N as opposed to looking at the value 
>within the column.
>
>-Matt Miller
>-------------------------------------------------------------------------
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Re: [phpesp-general] CPU overload

[Wendy D. <wd...@ma...>]

Matthew wrote:

> How fast was the CPU? 

Mac Os X Server
Version 10.2.8
Memory: 768 MB
Processor: 533 MHz PowerPC G4
Bus speed: 133 MHz

> What is the disk subsystem?  Was this windows?
> I would also look into how/if mySQL and PHP were tuned or a default 
> installs.
> 40 simultaneous users shouldn't be a problem if everything is in order.
>
 I'm sorry, I don't know what you mean by disk subsystem.  MySQL and PHP 
were came with the server, so I would say they were default installs.  
I'm not sure what to look for there.

Could it be sendmail?  I think the teacher who set up the survey had it 
going to two email addresses at the same time.  I've heard horror 
stories about sendmail.  Thank you for your help.

Wendy

> On 10/18/06, Wendy Derzawiec <wd...@ma...> wrote:
>
>> phpesp v.1.6.1
>> Hello,
>>
>> I work in a school district where phpesp is installed on our district
>> Web server.  A teacher set up a survey that allowed students to vote for
>> student council representatives.  There were 8 questions on the survey,
>> radio buttons. (choose one only).  The voting could not be completed
>> however because, as later investigation showed, the CPU was
>> overwhelmed.  I do not know what error message, if any, the students got
>> when trying to vote.  My guess is the browser just wouldnt' respond to
>> any user inputs.
>>
>> There were between 40-50 students voting simultaneously.  The survey was
>> configured to send results to two email addresses.  And .. the district
>> home page, also on the district Web server,  contains a Lasso database.
>>
>> I suppose any number of these elements could have contributed to the CPU
>> overload, but I was wondering if anyone had any other ideas as to why
>> this happened?  Is there a maximum number of simultaneous users?
>> (should future surveys limit voters to, say, 10 at a time?)  Should only
>> one email address be used?  Any thoughts are appreciated.  Thank you.
>>
>> Wendy
>>
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[phpesp-general] CPU overload

[Wendy D. <wd...@ma...>]

phpesp v.1.6.1
Hello,

I work in a school district where phpesp is installed on our district 
Web server.  A teacher set up a survey that allowed students to vote for 
student council representatives.  There were 8 questions on the survey, 
radio buttons. (choose one only).  The voting could not be completed 
however because, as later investigation showed, the CPU was 
overwhelmed.  I do not know what error message, if any, the students got 
when trying to vote.  My guess is the browser just wouldnt' respond to 
any user inputs.

There were between 40-50 students voting simultaneously.  The survey was 
configured to send results to two email addresses.  And .. the district 
home page, also on the district Web server,  contains a Lasso database.

I suppose any number of these elements could have contributed to the CPU 
overload, but I was wondering if anyone had any other ideas as to why 
this happened?  Is there a maximum number of simultaneous users?  
(should future surveys limit voters to, say, 10 at a time?)  Should only 
one email address be used?  Any thoughts are appreciated.  Thank you.

Wendy