Questionnaire and response software / script ?

Question

hello,

i would likw to have a questionaire / survey on my site and depending on the answers given I want to give an instant response.

The number of questions would be very limited and so would the responses be.

what software, script or other method would be the best (and easiest) to use ?

Thank you in advance.

George

Answer 1

PHP for the scripting language and MySQL for the database. It's pretty much certain that your server will have these installed whether it be Windows based or Linux based.

If you know PHP and MySQL creating a questionnaire/survey is a snap; if you don't and don't want to learn it you can often find off-the-peg open source scripts that can do most of it for you. Additionally, lot of PHP developed Content Management Systems (CMS) have the capability to build and maintain questionnaire/survey scripts.

To get you started check out the following URLs:

http://www.hotscripts.com/PHP/Scripts_an...

http://www.codango.com/php/dir/component...

http://www.scriptsbank.com/PHP_Scripts/T...

Answer 2

Yes code it using PHP and MySQL.

Answer 3

Hello,

(ANS) What your aiming to do is fine in theory but in practice is quite complex to achieve. What is required is this:-

No.1 The web space you have i.e. the ISP providing your site space must support scripting programs such as Perl etc.

No.2 Your web site would need a survey form or surveying software installed on the website itself and the survey might also reference a script which would calculate or perform an analysis for you & then response to the user input depending upon the analysis or end calculation. All of which is quite sophisticated in itself (I'm NOT saying it cannot be done, it can but its complex that's all).

No.3 Knowing what you want to achieve as the outcome is the best starting point and then you have to work backwards to achieve it. Hope that makes sense.

No.4 You need a survey form or survey software that matches your requirements and further to that you will need a script or custom written script to perform the functions you need as per the outcome.

No.5 Contact you ISP to find out if they support srcipting or scripts, if they do you need to know what kind of scripts they support or allow.

**Scripts can be a sensitive subject for some ISP's due to the security implications which is why some ISP's wont allow them?

**Look at free-ware survey forms or survey software? & free scripting or scripts.

Hope that helps?

Ivan.