A survey engine?

[Alan Dayley]

I'm in Desert Code Camp right now.  So far so good.  Sorry I won't see
you here this time.

I'm out to do an internal survey on a project just finishing.
- Anonymous respondents
- Brief
- Must be internal because of corporate policy
- May grow into subsequent similar surveys but want to start simple
with that growth possible.

I'll look at Web_Survey as an add on to Mod_Survey.  Some of the other
more complex or feature rich answers are too much for this need.
Start simple is my goal.

Can't use the outside services.  They may be privacy safe but the
company deals in stuff that must stay absolutely private.  By policy
we don't use outside services for company business.

Thanks for the comments!

Alan

On Sat, Nov 13, 2010 at 9:56 AM, Lisa Kachold <lisakachold at obnosis.com> wrote:
> Hi Alan,
>
> How was DesertCodeCamp.com this year?
>
> <pout> I had to work!
>
> On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 9:34 PM, Alan Dayley <adayley at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Thanks for the replies.
>>
>> I had forgotten about freshmeat.net.  They have several possibilities.
>>
>> http://freshmeat.net/search?q=survey&submit=Search
>>
>> I installed Mod_Survey before leaving the office.  I'll look at it in
>> more detail on Monday.
>
>
> Yes. mod_survey is incredibly easy:
>
>>
>> Since it's perl, you WILL have to build everything.  Since it's perl, you
>> GET TO build everything.
>
> Be sure to get Web_Survey, an adjacent tool:
> Web_Survey is a set of PHP scripts for managing populations and samples,
> contacting respondents via email, and keeping track of answers. Web_Survey
> does not have its own home page, but the latest tarball can be downloaded
> here. Web_Survey is developed by Mirko Pace
>
> Other disadvantages of mod_survey include:
> It's shell code; therefore not really complete;secure (but you can layer on
> authentication)
>
> I still question your assumption that you can't use an online survey tool
> like surveymonkey or os
>
> http://www.surveymonkey.com/
> http://www.hostedsurvey.com/information-technology.html
> http://Zoomerang.com
> http://www.novisystems.com/Survey-Software-Price.aspx  Not Free $15.00  -
> $350 a month
>
> My Google.com search was very profitable (don't know what you were surfing
> for?)!
> And the list IS extensive.
>
> Commercial:
>
> .Net:  http://www.classapps.com/
> http://www.surveysaid.com/Survey_Said/Home.html
> php based: http://www.chumpsoft.com/products/phpq/features/  [includes mail
> and export to cvs, html, etc] (way better than perl's mod_survey, since it
> just installs and you use it!) WORTH the $ (although the interface is not
> pretty).
>
> Free:
>
> LIMESURVEY:
>
> LimeSurvey is a PHP survey software to create online surveys. Features
> open/closed surveys, branching, participant administration, quotas, WYSIWYG
> HTML editor, email invitations & reminders, assessments, basic statistics
> and more.
>
> http://www.limesurvey.org/download
> http://sourceforge.net/projects/limesurvey/files/1._LimeSurvey_stable/
> http://docs.limesurvey.org/tiki-index.php?page=LimeSurvey+2.x+Installation
>
> Limesurvey is about as good as it gets, BTW.
>
> It's php and can use MSQL, MySQl, or Postgresql.
> It is also secure, with no  current known exploits (1.52 has a remote code
> execution issue).
> http://www.exploit-db.com/search/?action=search&filter_page=1&filter_description=survey&filter_exploit_text=limesurvey&filter_author=&filter_platform=0&filter_type=0&filter_lang_id=0&filter_port=&filter_osvdb=&filter_cve=
>
>
>
> Don't forget about Drupal plugins, Joomla modules, Wordpress mods, etc.
>
> Gee these CHAT BOTS look fun also:
>
> http://www.alicebot.org/non.html
>
>>
>> Alan
>>
>> On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 7:00 PM, keith smith <klsmith2020 at yahoo.com>
>> wrote:
>> >
>> > Sometimes thing are elusive.  I tried "php survey software" on Google
>> > and found some free stuff.
>> >
>> >
>> > I have no idea what any of this is or if it is of any value.
>> >
>> > ------------------------
>> > Keith Smith
>> >
>> > --- On Fri, 11/12/10, Alan Dayley <adayley at gmail.com> wrote:
>> >
>> > From: Alan Dayley <adayley at gmail.com>
>> > Subject: A survey engine?
>> > To: "Main PLUG discussion list" <plug-discuss at lists.plug.phoenix.az.us>
>> > Date: Friday, November 12, 2010, 2:51 PM
>> >
>> > Hey, I have a question that Google is not helping to answer.  I get so
>> > many hits on the terms and I have not been able to find the right
>> > combination to weed out the hits I don't want.  So, I'll ask you, the
>> > wonderful PLUGgers!
>> >
>> > I want to do an anonymous survey within our company.  Because the
>> > questions are specific to our work, I can't use Survey Monkey or
>> > Google Docs, which would be really easy.  Instead I need to do
>> > something like that on an internal server.
>> >
>> > I'm the admin for two servers so can install and run whatever I need
>> > on either of these boxes.  I am not finding a ready-made survey
>> > engine.  Google falls down when doing searches, giving results of
>> > surveys, online survey services or online surveys to take.
>> >
>> > Do any of you know of a survey engine I can install on a Linux web
>> > server, input the questions and have people respond?
>> >
>> > (This should be easy but finding it is taking lots of time!)
>> >
>> > Alan
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