On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 9:34 PM, Alan Dayley <adayley@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@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@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> From: Alan Dayley <adayley@gmail.com>
> Subject: A survey engine?
> To: "Main PLUG discussion list" <plug-discuss@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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