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[DeWitt, Michael]

We use it and have kinda forked it to get some extra functionality out of it
as the developer was slow to embrace new question types and formatting
features.  Some simple things like section headings, and text box sizing are
missing (or at least were when I last looked which has been a while).

We use it for our "light" surveys as its layout is pretty much fixed and the
data is kind of chunked out into different tables depending on question type
so that it takes some work to put it back together so you can have
meaningful column headings and data presented in a single table format for
analysis. Its own results page seems fairly capable but very rigid and I
believe is not intended to be shown to users (though I am sure you could
make it so).

Here is an example page: https://www.alexcommgrp.com/csg/csnsurvey0803.php

For heavy-duty surveys, we re-use in-house code and develop custom html and
datastructures to suit the survey.  

phpESP really wasn't too bad to work with and it may be a great start for
you as it was for us. 

Mike

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Bill Lovett [SMTP:bill at ilovett.com]
> Sent:	Wednesday, March 03, 2004 10:28 AM
> To:	NYPHP Talk
> Subject:	Re: [nycphp-talk] php surveys
> 
> On Wed, Mar 03, 2004 at 01:41:49PM -0500, Daniel Convissor wrote:
> > Have you, or anyone else here, used the package?  What do y'all think?
> 
> I've used phpESP before-- it works as advertised, but does take a little
> time to learn your way around. I had to give nontechnical users a step
> by step walkthrough, but they eventually picked it up. 
> 
> Customizing the survey template was a little rough-- it was change a
> little bit of this file here, change a little of that file there. I got
> to a point that was good enough for my purposes, but that could be a
> real problem depending on your circumstances and the degree of
> customization you need for your users.
> 
> -bill
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