phpesp-general — General discussion, questions, and annoucements about phpESP

[phpesp-general] ANNOUNCEMENT: phpESP v1.3 RC2 released

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

This is a RELEASE CANIDATE. This is *not* a production
release. The code is considered stable, but not tested
enough to be a production release. The production release
of version 1.3 will be coming very soon, pending the number
of bugs found in this release canidate. Please download
this release canidate and test it. NOTE: The database
layout of this release is NOT compatible releases before
1.3-RC1.

FIXED BUGS:
 o Multipage surveys not keeping single response ID. (Bug
   #489287).
 o Bug in question numbering when using Rate questions.
 o Moving between questions would sometimes clear question
   options.

Download:
 http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/phpesp/phpESP-1.3_RC2.tar.gz

If you are using version 1.3 RC1, you can just replace the
existing files with these (and edit paths/config if
neccessary). If you are using a version previous to v1.3
RC1, I suggest installing this in a separate location, with
a new database.

-James

Re: [phpesp-general] Really stupid Question!!! phpESP Release 1.3rc1

[Wouter v. G. <wo...@th...>]

Hhhhm, this sounds like the script is unable to find a few files.

What is the contents of the html file where you pasted the php
code ?

Have you done all the configuration according to the README ?

I remember that I had to edit the handler.php file as well and
give it the correct path to the phpESP files !

And be sure that the connection info (user, pass, host) for the
Mysql-database is OK.

Can you connect to MySQL using a shell ?


shell> mysql -u [yourusername] -p

?



grt Wouter



[On 16 Dec, 2001, David Richard wrote in " Re: [phpesp-general] Really stupid Question!!! phpESP Release 1.3rc1 "]
> Thanks Wouter,
> 
> I've done as you've suggested and now get the following errors!!! It's
> progress nevertheless!!!!
> 
> Fatal error: Maximum execution time of 30 seconds exceeded in
> /home/sites/site40/web/bqfsurveys/admin/phpESP.ini on line 16
> Fatal error: Maximum execution time of 30 seconds exceeded in
> /home/sites/site40/web/bqfsurveys/admin/include/funcs.inc on line 45
> Fatal error: Maximum execution time of 30 seconds exceeded in
> /home/sites/site40/web/bqfsurveys/admin/include/funcs.inc on line 44
> Warning: Supplied argument is not a valid MySQL result resource in
> /home/sites/site40/web/bqfsurveys/admin/include/lib/espsql.inc on line 31
> 
> Warning: Supplied argument is not a valid MySQL result resource in
> /home/sites/site40/web/bqfsurveys/admin/include/lib/espsql.inc on line 32
> 
> Warning: Cannot add header information - headers already sent by (output
> started at /home/sites/site40/web/survey.php:8) in
> /home/sites/site40/web/bqfsurveys/admin/phpESP.ini on line 151
> 
> HTTP 503 Service Unavailable
> [ Connection to database failed. Please check configuration. ]
> 
> All my admin functions work fine, so do the test functions. Absolutely no
> errors. It seems, that the error only occurs when I 'past the php string
> produced from the admin program' and then try to access from the web.
> 
> Any ideas?
> 
> Thanks again
> 
> David
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Wouter van Gils" <wo...@th...>
> To: "David Richard" <dav...@bt...>
> Cc: <php...@li...>
> Sent: Saturday, December 15, 2001 11:43 PM
> Subject: Re: [phpesp-general] Really stupid Question!!! phpESP Release
> 1.3rc1
> 
> 
> > well,
> >
> > whatever file you want on a server that supports php. So if you
> > have a home-dir on a server that supports PHP than put de line of
> > code in a file called (e.a.) survey.php
> > (/home/yourusername/survey.php) and make it world
> > readable,
> >
> > -Wouter
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > [On 15 Dec, 2001, David Richard wrote in " [phpesp-general] Really stupid
> Question!!! phpESP Release 1.3rc1 "]
> > > I've loaded everything and it's running in test mode great. Release
> V1.3rc1.
> > >
> > > However.......
> > >
> > > I get the php code to include in my html file but which html file!!!?
> > >
> > > What directory should it be place in etc.
> > >
> > > I told you it was a stupid question but I can't use ESP fpr real until I
> > > know the answer. please take pity and help me please.
> > >
> > > David
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > _______________________________________________
> > > phpESP-general mailing list
> > > php...@li...
> > > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/phpesp-general
> >
> > --
> > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> > Wouter van Gils -=- wo...@th...
> > http://the-construct.cx/
> > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> >
> >
> > _______________________________________________
> > phpESP-general mailing list
> > php...@li...
> > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/phpesp-general
> >

-- 
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Wouter van Gils -=- wo...@th...
http://the-construct.cx/
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Re: [phpesp-general] Really stupid Question!!! phpESP Release 1.3rc1

[Wouter v. G. <wo...@th...>]

well,

whatever file you want on a server that supports php. So if you
have a home-dir on a server that supports PHP than put de line of
code in a file called (e.a.) survey.php
(/home/yourusername/survey.php) and make it world
readable,

-Wouter





[On 15 Dec, 2001, David Richard wrote in " [phpesp-general] Really stupid Question!!! phpESP Release 1.3rc1 "]
> I've loaded everything and it's running in test mode great. Release V1.3rc1.
> 
> However.......
> 
> I get the php code to include in my html file but which html file!!!?
> 
> What directory should it be place in etc.
> 
> I told you it was a stupid question but I can't use ESP fpr real until I
> know the answer. please take pity and help me please.
> 
> David
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> _______________________________________________
> phpESP-general mailing list
> php...@li...
> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/phpesp-general

-- 
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Wouter van Gils -=- wo...@th...
http://the-construct.cx/
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

[phpesp-general] Really stupid Question!!! phpESP Release 1.3rc1

[David R. <dav...@bt...>]

I've loaded everything and it's running in test mode great. Release V1.3rc1.

However.......

I get the php code to include in my html file but which html file!!!?

What directory should it be place in etc.

I told you it was a stupid question but I can't use ESP fpr real until I
know the answer. please take pity and help me please.

David

Re: [phpesp-general] Off topic: Nedit highlighting

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

Well looking at my .nedit file I think it should be:
(class|function)[\\t| ]+(\\w+)[\\t| ]+

I am using Nedit 5.1.1, with this pattern file:
  http://nedit.org/ftp/contrib/highlighting/php4.pats
The error you got might be because of v5.0.2, try a newer
version.

-James

On Sat, 15 Dec 2001, Roman Jasins wrote:

> Not exactly a phpESP question, but I'm using Nedit 5.0.2 to write code for
> phpESP, so it's kind of applicable. I imported php4 highlighting pattern
> (the one from nedit.org) but it refuses to work. This is the err I'm getting
> when I'm trying to highlight the syntax. Does anyone know what's up with it?
> The php_html (php3) pattern they had posted at nedit.org didn¹t work either.
>
> Erro in syntax highlighting regular expression:
> (class|function[\t|]+(\w+)[\t|]+
> invalid escape (\) sequence
>
> Thank you in advance,
> -Roman

[phpesp-general] Off topic: Nedit highlighting

[Roman J. <ro...@la...>]

Not exactly a phpESP question, but I'm using Nedit 5.0.2 to write code for
phpESP, so it's kind of applicable. I imported php4 highlighting pattern
(the one from nedit.org) but it refuses to work. This is the err I'm gettin=
g
when I'm trying to highlight the syntax. Does anyone know what's up with it=
?
The php_html (php3) pattern they had posted at nedit.org didn=B9t work either=
.

Erro in syntax highlighting regular expression:
(class|function[\t|]+(\w+)[\t|]+
invalid escape (\) sequence

Thank you in advance,
-Roman

[phpesp-general] Help... results not working!

[Ismini <is...@at...>]

When I create a survey and test it, the results seem to be coming up for 
test mode... but when i activate it and put in responses, the results give 
me this error: Error opening survey. No responses found. [ ID:1 ]

Any clue as to why this is happening?
Thanks in advance!

Ismini

[phpesp-general] Repondent Request

[Vishal S. <vis...@ho...>]

Hello All,

I have downloaded and installed the latest RC version of phpESP. I =
really
like it. It has all the features that I need. I have One question =
though:

Is it possible to redirect the respondent to the graphical survey =
results
screen after he/she has filled out a survey , instead of making them go =
to a
page with a text message, as it does currently ?

I have noticed that a lot of survey systems have this option. Could any =
body
shed some light on this?

Thanks in advance.

Vishal.

Re: [phpesp-general] Ballot Stuffing and Embedding

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

On Wed, 5 Dec 2001, James O'Malley wrote:

> Love phpESP!  Keep up the good work.  Got a couple of questions.
>
> I was wondering if there was method that you recommend
> for limiting multiple posts or ballot stuffing.  I know
> that this program is intended for more closed system
> (ie within a department or company), but it'd be nice
> to figure out a way to address that issue to make
> results more valuable.

There are really only two ways to track users. The first is
by IP address, and the second is by cookies. Neither are
very foolproof, but would help some. My suggestion is to
let people try to ballot stuff, but to track them so you
can silently ignore those entries when tabulating data.

Tracking IPs has big problems with web proxies (ie. AOL
users). However you could easily edit the handler to set
the userid based on remote IP. Tracking by cookies has
problems with public computers.  Tracking by cookies would
be a little bit harder, but could probably still be done
completely within the handler.

There are hooks in the handler already to help track users.
The handler looks at three things in order and picks the
first one that is set for the "userid".
0.  The POST variable "userid".
1.  The GET variable "userid".
    [ as in handler.php?foo=bar&userid=killroy ]
2.  The REMOTE_USER variable.
3.  The QUERY_STRING  [ as in handler.php?killroy ]

If you are sending an email to people for example, you
could include their email address (or some number that you
have assigned to them) in the URL of the survey. So they
would get a link like:
  http://some.host.com/mysurvey.php?N12353
where N12353 is the key in your database for the person the
email was sent to.

> Also, for some reason when I embedded the php tag in my index.php file,
> submitting doesn't insert any data.  I embed it in a blank page...
> survey.php and it works just fine.  Any known issues with embedding in an
> existing php page?  I don't think I have any colliding variables btw.
>
> Using 1.3RC1

I do not know of any problems off hand. You should check to
make sure that you do not have overlapping <form> tags in
the produced HTML. Could you send me (off-list) the URL of
page that does not work, and possibly the PHP source of the
template?

As of 1.3RC1 there is an alternative method of embedding
the form, which may work better. It is specifically
designed for use when authenticating respondents, but may
help if you have complicated PHP templates already. Read
the comments at the top of the public/handler-prefix.php
file for details.

Take it easy,
-James

[phpesp-general] Ballot Stuffing and Embedding

[James O'M. <ji...@pa...>]

Love phpESP!  Keep up the good work.  Got a couple of questions.

I was wondering if there was method that you recommend for limiting multiple
posts or ballot stuffing.  I know that this program is intended for more
closed system (ie within a department or company), but it'd be nice to
figure out a way to address that issue to make results more valuable.

Also, for some reason when I embedded the php tag in my index.php file,
submitting doesn't insert any data.  I embed it in a blank page...
survey.php and it works just fine.  Any known issues with embedding in an
existing php page?  I don't think I have any colliding variables btw.

Using 1.3RC1

-- 
  _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/

  James O'Malley
  Altamente.com

  _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/

The more you complain, the longer God lets you live. 

Re: [phpesp-general] Upgrading?...

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

On Wed, 5 Dec 2001, Sean M Alderman wrote:

> Gang,
> 	Is it possible to do an upgrade from one version to another?  We're
> running an old version (I'm guessing by the date stamps v1.1.  I just
> downloaded the latest cvs tree (which seems to be significantly
> different, especially at the DB level).  But I didn't see any notes
> about upgrading.

Upgrading is not so trivial anymore. Unfortunately, I
didn't design the original DB especially well. Consequently
I ended up rewriting a lot of it. So the quick answer is
"no" there is no upgrade path from pre-1.3, to 1.3+. The
long answer is "of course". It just involves dumping your
data to a file, then writing a nice perl script (or the
like) that pushes the data around so that it will fit in
the new database layout.

I really did plan on providing an upgrade script for the
v1.3 release. I still want one to be in the 1.3 final
release (don't forget the most recent one [1.3RC1] is a
release *candidate*, and I have already found and fixed
several bugs in it). Is it possible for you to email me
(off-list) the current table definitions you are using, or
just tell me what the version id is on phpESP.sql that you
loaded them from? I will hopefully get a perl script
written to automate the upgrade procedure, in time for the
1.3 FINAL release.

-James

[phpesp-general] Upgrading?...

[Sean M A. <sea...@gr...>]

Gang,
	Is it possible to do an upgrade from one version to another?  We're
running an old version (I'm guessing by the date stamps v1.1.  I just
downloaded the latest cvs tree (which seems to be significantly
different, especially at the DB level).  But I didn't see any notes
about upgrading.
-- 
Sean M. Alderman
ITRACK Systems Analyst
PACE/NCI - NASA Glenn Research Center
(216) 433-2795

Re: [phpesp-general] phpesp - question problem

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

On Mon, 3 Dec 2001, Dave Giffney wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Just been trying out phpESP 1.3 and am having problems
> creating two types of questions, could anyone suggest a
> fix please?
>
> Here are the questions;
>
> 1. How do you divide your gaming time?
>
> Strategy/RPG                %
> Sports                      %
> Action                      %
> Simulations                 %
> Racing                      %
> Shooting                    %
> Fighting                    %
> Other                       %
>
> *(require person to supply a figure between 0-100% in each answer)

There is no question type currently to do this exactly. You
could use a Rating question, where the person could rate
each category, or have 8 separate text box questions.

> 2. Place the following in order of their importance to
> you when purchasing a controller?
>
> Design
> Functions
> Brand Name
> Warranty Period
> Price
> Ease of use
> Ease of installation
> Build Quality
>
> *(require person to give a numerical order to the answers list)

Again, there is no question type for this directly. You
could use Rating, or multiple text boxes.

Out of curiosity, how would you tabulate the results from
these questions.

-James

Re: [phpesp-general] Is it possible to...

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

That's was bug. It should work the you expect (want) it to.
I have just patched the source so that it works. The
development version (in the CVS repository) now works
correctly. This is also the version on the Demo site, you
can try it there. [ http://phpesp.sf.net/demo/ ] The next
full release will have this fix in it as well.

You still cannot change from a question with choices to one
without choices. That is a design decision I made a while
ago.

Thanks for the report.
-James

On Mon, 3 Dec 2001, Dave Giffney wrote:

> Sometimes when creating a question and then moving onto
> the next question you decide the previous was not
> correct, when you then return to amend this question
> you can not change the answers, thus you can not change
> some other functions of the question.
>
> Could this change so that if you return to a question
> to edit, you can see the available answers and thus
> change the "type" box?
>
> Cheers
> Dave

[phpesp-general] phpesp - question problem

[Dave G. <da...@gi...>]

Hi,

Just been trying out phpESP 1.3 and am having problems creating two =
types of questions, could anyone suggest a fix please?

Here are the questions;

1. How do you divide your gaming time?

Strategy/RPG                %
Sports                            %
Action                            %
Simulations                     %
Racing                           %
Shooting                        %
Fighting                         %
Other                            %

*(require person to supply a figure between 0-100% in each answer)

2. Place the following in order of their importance to you when =
purchasing a controller?

Design
Functions
Brand Name
Warranty Period
Price
Ease of use
Ease of installation
Build Quality

*(require person to give a numerical order to the answers list)


If anyone could help it would be great and save my hair.....

Dave

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[phpesp-general] Is it possible to...

[Dave G. <da...@gi...>]

Sometimes when creating a question and then moving onto the next =
question you decide the previous was not correct, when you then return =
to amend this question you can not change the answers, thus you can not =
change some other functions of the question.

Could this change so that if you return to a question to edit, you can =
see the available answers and thus change the "type" box?

Cheers
Dave

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[phpesp-general] Re: phpESP-general digest, Vol 1 #9 - 1 msg

[<Mar...@ur...>]

hello all!  


first of all: great job  really!! I like phpESP

I have got some trouble with the survey! We use it as a tool in a bigger 
community!
As the recent survey probably did not store all the user-responses; i am in 
some trouble!
For me it seemed to work but some students told me that they voted and i did 
not get thier vote!
I use the phpESP 1.2 beta 3 without a sepcial user authentification and user - 
login! 
My boss is quiet a bit angry with me and i have to gain a bit in success with 
the next survey (seven hundred studends ;(`)
so my plan to make shure that every responses is allright is a kind of 
confirmation! I want to make shure that every response
is valid and reliable and that no (!!) student votes without a database storage!
I thougth that it would be the best  to _confirm_ every vote with a email 
response to  the respondent!
So i could make shure that nobody would think to vote without doing this! 

so the simplest way to get more security in my task is that:
Am i Able to double the email - Backup: i want to get one and i want to let  
the respondent get one too!
So i only have to put a variable (from the email adress of  the respondent)  -
which i gain in a user-request in the poll - an put this result 
in the field of the so called Email-Funtion /the backup funktion:

What do you think about this plan?


I love this new mailing list; A very good thing!


all my best wihses 
martin
mar...@ur...

one last thing: i had one item in  a poll - a name field - text entry: this 
field included the name of the respondent;: 

from 700 respondent i did not get any person , named such 
like "Indiana" ,Idaho, Itaka, Italia.... and so on ; 

no _I_ at all: My boss wanted to kill me immitiately after finnishing the big 
survey ; Do you have any plan what happended! I looked at all the tables on the 
database .-.. nothing -... especially the answer-text Fields ... nothing at 
all! So it was very very surprising to find out that i - probably produced an I-
 bug! Perhaps i choose a wrong response type!? 

any thoughts?

any help would be apreciatdet!
martin


mar...@ur...
http://www.postnuke.de

[phpesp-general] Re: phpESP-general digest, Vol 1 #9 - 1 msg

[<Mar...@ur...>]

hello all!  


first of all: great job  really!! I like phpESP

I have got some trouble with the survey! We use it as a tool in a bigger 
community!
As the recent survey probably did not store all the user-responses; i am in 
some trouble!
For me it seemed to work but some students told me that they voted and i did 
not get thier vote!
I use the phpESP 1.2 beta 3 without a sepcial user authentification and user - 
login! 
My boss is quiet a bit angry with me and i have to gain a bit in success with 
the next survey (seven hundred studends ;(`)
so my plan to make shure that every responses is allright is a kind of 
confirmation! I want to make shure that every response
is valid and reliable and that no (!!) student votes without a database storage!
I thougth that it would be the best  to _confirm_ every vote with a email 
response to  the respondent!
So i could make shure that nobody would think to vote without doing this! 

so the simplest way to get more security in my task is that:
Am i Able to double the email - Backup: i want to get one and i want to let  
the respondent get one too!
So i only have to put a variable (from the email adress of  the respondent)  -
which i gain in a user-request in the poll - an put this result 
in the field of the so called Email-Funtion /the backup funktion:

What do you think about this plan?


I love this new mailing list; A very good thing!


all my best wihses 
martin
mar...@ur...

one last thing: i had one item in  a poll - a name field - text entry: this 
field included the name of the respondent;: 

from 700 respondent i did not get any person , named such 
like "Indiana" ,Idaho, Itaka, Italia.... and so on ; 

no _I_ at all: My boss wanted to kill me immitiately after finnishing the big 
survey ; Do you have any plan what happended! I looked at all the tables on the 
database .-.. nothing -... especially the answer-text Fields ... nothing at 
all! So it was very very surprising to find out that i - probably produced an I-
 bug! Perhaps i choose a wrong response type!? 

any thoughts?

any help would be apreciatdet!
martin


mar...@ur...
http://www.postnuke.de

[phpesp-general] Re: phpESP-general digest, Vol 1 #9 - 1 msg

[<Mar...@ur...>]

hello all!  


first of all: great job  really!! I like phpESP

I have got some trouble with the survey! We use it as a tool in a bigger 
community!
As the recent survey probably did not store all the user-responses; i am in 
some trouble!
For me it seemed to work but some students told me that they voted and i did 
not get thier vote!
I use the phpESP 1.2 beta 3 without a sepcial user authentification and user - 
login! 
My boss is quiet a bit angry with me and i have to gain a bit in success with 
the next survey (seven hundred studends ;(`)
so my plan to make shure that every responses is allright is a kind of 
confirmation! I want to make shure that every response
is valid and reliable and that no (!!) student votes without a database storage!
I thougth that it would be the best  to _confirm_ every vote with a email 
response to  the respondent!
So i could make shure that nobody would think to vote without doing this! 

so the simplest way to get more security in my task is that:
Am i Able to double the email - Backup: i want to get one and i want to let  
the respondent get one too!
So i only have to put a variable (from the email adress of  the respondent)  -
which i gain in a user-request in the poll - an put this result 
in the field of the so called Email-Funtion /the backup funktion:

What do you think about this plan?


I love this new mailing list; A very good thing!


all my best wihses 
martin
mar...@ur...

one last thing: i had one item in  a poll - a name field - text entry: this 
field included the name of the respondent;: 

from 700 respondent i did not get any person , named such 
like "Indiana" ,Idaho, Itaka, Italia.... and so on ; 

no _I_ at all: My boss wanted to kill me immitiately after finnishing the big 
survey ; Do you have any plan what happended! I looked at all the tables on the 
database .-.. nothing -... especially the answer-text Fields ... nothing at 
all! So it was very very surprising to find out that i - probably produced an I-
 bug! Perhaps i choose a wrong response type!? 

any thoughts?

any help would be apreciatdet!
martin


mar...@ur...
http://www.postnuke.de

[phpesp-general] Re: phpESP-general digest, Vol 1 #9 - 1 msg

[<Mar...@ur...>]

hello all!  


first of all: great job  really!! I like phpESP

I have got some trouble with the survey! We use it as a tool in a bigger 
community!
As the recent survey probably did not store all the user-responses; i am in 
some trouble!
For me it seemed to work but some students told me that they voted and i did 
not get thier vote!
I use the phpESP 1.2 beta 3 without a sepcial user authentification and user - 
login! 
My boss is quiet a bit angry with me and i have to gain a bit in success with 
the next survey (seven hundred studends ;(`)
so my plan to make shure that every responses is allright is a kind of 
confirmation! I want to make shure that every response
is valid and reliable and that no (!!) student votes without a database storage!
I thougth that it would be the best  to _confirm_ every vote with a email 
response to  the respondent!
So i could make shure that nobody would think to vote without doing this! 

so the simplest way to get more security in my task is that:
Am i Able to double the email - Backup: i want to get one and i want to let  
the respondent get one too!
So i only have to put a variable (from the email adress of  the respondent)  -
which i gain in a user-request in the poll - an put this result 
in the field of the so called Email-Funtion /the backup funktion:

What do you think about this plan?


I love this new mailing list; A very good thing!


all my best wihses 
martin
mar...@ur...

one last thing: i had one item in  a poll - a name field - text entry: this 
field included the name of the respondent;: 

from 700 respondent i did not get any person , named such 
like "Indiana" ,Idaho, Itaka, Italia.... and so on ; 

no _I_ at all: My boss wanted to kill me immitiately after finnishing the big 
survey ; Do you have any plan what happended! I looked at all the tables on the 
database .-.. nothing -... especially the answer-text Fields ... nothing at 
all! So it was very very surprising to find out that i - probably produced an I-
 bug! Perhaps i choose a wrong response type!? 

any thoughts?

any help would be apreciatdet!
martin


mar...@ur...
http://www.postnuke.de

Re: [phpesp-general] phpESP email function

[Curtis V. L. <zzv...@wa...>]

I am actually using the survey to get our users to help identify =
problems, by asking specific questions. Typically we get the "there's a =
problem with such and such computer" which doesn't help much. As I set =
up these surveys they will illicit information that will help us =
identify bugs/issues with each system. I am planning on using the =
database for the long-term analysis. With a human readable format we =
could assist users more quickly and also lend some accountability to the =
survey.

We are actually trying to rework phpESP to do this. I would be =
interested in how others are doing it.

The "forked" survey is a feature that we highly await.

Thanks
Curtis


Date: Sun, 25 Nov 2001 19:29:23 -0500 (EST)
From: "James E. Flemer" <jf...@ac...>
To: <php...@li...>
Cc: <sea...@gr...>
Subject: Re: [phpesp-general] phpESP email function

That should be pretty easy to do, but my question is ..
Why do you need the results to be emailed?

The advantage to doing this with a database backend is lost
if you use the email for the results. You can do much more
powerful data analysis out of the database. The email was
intended as a backup feature. In the case that the database
became inconsistent, the data could be recovered from the
email archive. That is why the email is in a machine
readable format (rather than a human readable one).

However, there seems to be a number of people who would
like human readable email. I hope to add this as an option,
so when designing a survey you can choose human/machine
readable email. I believe Sean Alderman was interested
in this as well, and was going to (/already has) implement
this.

I will add it as a feature request on the SourceForge site,
and see what I can do about it.

-James

On Sun, 25 Nov 2001, Curtis Von Lintel wrote:

> This app would fit my needs perfectly if I could only
> have it email the send the entire survey that a user
> takes. I am sure this seems crazy. Is there a way to
> hack that out?
>
> Thanks

Re: [phpesp-general] Getting ESP running

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

Are you using the CGI version of PHP (php.exe), or the SAPI
module (php4isapi.dll) version?

It appears that HTTP Authentication is not (fully)
supported by the CGI version of PHP for IIS. There is more
information about this in the PHP docs here:
  http://www.php.net/manual/en/features.http-auth.php

Unfortunately I do not have access to IIS servers to do any
testing on. I do all my development and testing on UNIX
(FreeBSD to be exact). Perhaps someone who uses Windows+IIS
and writes PHP code could take a look at this problem.

Marc, is there any chance you could use Apache rather than
IIS?

-James

On Mon, 26 Nov 2001, Hoogerwerf, ir. M.R. wrote:

> Dear listers,
>
> I've been trying to get ESP up and running. I'm almost(?) there but I can't
> get rid of the last error messages.
>
> Here's my set-up:
>
> Win2K, IIS5.0, php4.0.6, phpESP1.3RC1, mySQL3.23.29a
>
> I've followed all the instructions in the README file. The database has been
> created, a mySQL user has been created, phpESP.sql has been run succesfully
> and I've edited all the pathnames to refer to my [install-root] which is
> c:\esp
>
> I tracked down the error messages to the point of
> 	if($ESPCONFIG['auth_design']) {
> 		if(!manage_auth(
> in manage.php
>
> if I hardcode the username, password in the lines above, I succeed getting
> access to the management interface. However, when I try to create my first
> survey I encounter problems in C:\ESP\admin\include\tab\general.inc on line
> 23
> without the hard-coding I receive the following message:
> Incorrect User ID or Password, or your account has been disabled.
> However, I've established that when I use a hardcoded version of the sql
> statement that generates this message, I receive results as expected, i.e.
> the user exists in the designer table, he's not disabled and not expired.
> My guess is that this line is not working on my machine:
> XADDSLASHES(@$HTTP_SERVER_VARS['PHP_AUTH_USER']
> it seems that 'PHP_AUTH_USER' is not an entry in the HTTP_SERVER_VARS array.
> However I can't find the place where this entry should have been set. When I
> turn on debugging the  debugging window doesn't show this entry.
>
> I'm afraid I'm not a PHP coder so it's hard to find the place where I should
> start looking.
>
> Hope someone can help me out.
>
>
> Marc Hoogerwerf

[phpesp-general] Getting ESP running

[Hoogerwerf, i. M.R. <M.R...@Al...>]

Dear listers,

I've been trying to get ESP up and running. I'm almost(?) there but I can't
get rid of the last error messages.

Here's my set-up:

Win2K, IIS5.0, php4.0.6, phpESP1.3RC1, mySQL3.23.29a

I've followed all the instructions in the README file. The database has been
created, a mySQL user has been created, phpESP.sql has been run succesfully
and I've edited all the pathnames to refer to my [install-root] which is
c:\esp

I tracked down the error messages to the point of 
	if($ESPCONFIG['auth_design']) {
		if(!manage_auth(
in manage.php

if I hardcode the username, password in the lines above, I succeed getting
access to the management interface. However, when I try to create my first
survey I encounter problems in C:\ESP\admin\include\tab\general.inc on line
23
without the hard-coding I receive the following message:
Incorrect User ID or Password, or your account has been disabled.
However, I've established that when I use a hardcoded version of the sql
statement that generates this message, I receive results as expected, i.e.
the user exists in the designer table, he's not disabled and not expired.
My guess is that this line is not working on my machine:
XADDSLASHES(@$HTTP_SERVER_VARS['PHP_AUTH_USER']
it seems that 'PHP_AUTH_USER' is not an entry in the HTTP_SERVER_VARS array.
However I can't find the place where this entry should have been set. When I
turn on debugging the  debugging window doesn't show this entry.

I'm afraid I'm not a PHP coder so it's hard to find the place where I should
start looking.

Hope someone can help me out.


Marc Hoogerwerf

Re: [phpesp-general] phpESP email function

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

That should be pretty easy to do, but my question is ..
Why do you need the results to be emailed?

The advantage to doing this with a database backend is lost
if you use the email for the results. You can do much more
powerful data analysis out of the database. The email was
intended as a backup feature. In the case that the database
became inconsistent, the data could be recovered from the
email archive. That is why the email is in a machine
readable format (rather than a human readable one).

However, there seems to be a number of people who would
like human readable email. I hope to add this as an option,
so when designing a survey you can choose human/machine
readable email. I believe Sean Alderman was interested
in this as well, and was going to (/already has) implement
this.

I will add it as a feature request on the SourceForge site,
and see what I can do about it.

-James

On Sun, 25 Nov 2001, Curtis Von Lintel wrote:

> This app would fit my needs perfectly if I could only
> have it email the send the entire survey that a user
> takes. I am sure this seems crazy. Is there a way to
> hack that out?
>
> Thanks
> curtis

[phpesp-general] phpESP email function

[Curtis V. L. <zzv...@wa...>]

This app would fit my needs perfectly if I could only have it email the send the entire survey that a user takes. I am sure this seems crazy. Is there a way to hack that out?

Thanks
curtis