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Does anybody know of any open source project that deals with creating forms or surveys?
The engine needs to function something similar to Survey Monkey (surveys; each containing survey pages; each containing a survey element - radio boxes/check boxes/text areas or other components) - except that we have requirements to brand it with custom look and feel and we have our own custom form interactions. I believe that some of these custom interactions might be worth contributing back to the OSS community as well, but we would rather plug it into an existing project that creating one from scratch.
It would be preferable if such a project used PHP and MySQL but I am fine with any other combination. Any inputs on this would be very useful.
Yes, there are. The following may suit you best:
LimeSurvey
LimeSurvey basically contains everything you need for doing nearly every survey with grace.
ActiveCampaign
Conduct surveys with ease by creating your survey using our proprietary WYSIWYG survey design tool, deploying your survey to your respondents, and fully analyzing the results.
PHPESP
PHP scripts to let non-technical users create surveys, administer surveys, gather results, view statistics. All managed online after database initialization.
I can recommend JForm (http://sourceforge.net/projects/jformphp/). It enables you to create easily customizable forms from a php settings array.
I had built one custom survey as per my requirements over here. May be you can customize it and make it as per your needs and you can host it on your server too. It uses PHP / MySQL. Its not a complete solution though.
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I am looking for suggestions, references, articles that can help me understand as how to create a website builder. My users will choose a template and then edit in the editor similar to WIX.com I am interested to offer them a platform with similar features.
If there is any article or resource available that can give me an idea as what are the pros and cons of the application.
Thanks again for your help.
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I've built a website builder and here's the gist;
It's going to take a long time
You're describing an application that's going to take a long time to make.
A website builder is not a small application it's going to have a lot of features in order to stand out and compete with the website builders that are already in place.
You're going to have to either have a team or be good at coding yourself
This application will need to follow an architecture like MVC to be able to properly perform maintenance on your application and to keep extending it's functionallity.
You're either going to need to be good at PHP, SQL, JS and JQuery and have a lot of time on your hands or have a team to get this done with the right skill sets.
No place to walk you through
The complexity of this application would also be very high and there is no document or video that will walk you through building the entire application simply because of it's complexity.
You're going to have to come up with how to build this application yourself.
If you're going to want to be doing this make sure you're prepared and have the resources to do so, this is not just a simple little project.
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I have a client that has a list of several thousand email addresses (and their personal info). If they are holding an event in a particular city, they want to send an email to "everyone in these cities with these parameters". They would like to keep track of who attends each event, let people unsubscribe, but not loose their data, track other attributes about each person over time, etc.
The main company site is in Drupal, but this project can use any platform. Any suggestions about php software that can be customized to do this?
There is heaps of software to do this. You will have to get the data into a form that can be imported into a database though like mysql.
Wordpress has lots of plugins that can import mailing lists and news letters.
Once the data is in a database table then you could also write your own quite easily. If you aren't a coder though wordpress plugins or something similar might be the way to go.
Also, checkout mailchimp and services like that.
p.s. if you send several thousands emails you will probably get black listed :P
Obviously there is lots of software to do this, but I was looking for any advice someone might have to help me narrow down the search because there are so many scripts to test.
In this case, I settled on CiviCRM, which has both a drupal and a wordpress integration and does everything that I needed, specifically the ability to record lots of meta data about the individuals in the database and then to segment that data to use for sending email.
https://civicrm.org/
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I would like to write a WordPress plugin that provides the ability to maintain database of potentially detailed entries, and then a filterable view of those entries. Specifically I would like to maintain a player roster, with a set of specific fields for each player. It would include mostly simple fields, though I foresee needing to upload and reference photos as well.
I assume the hard part of this would be the administration page, providing your basic CRUD functionality for the table, then potentially the filterable view. I also assume that this is specific enough that there is not a plugin that fits my needs out of the box. Attempts to find one have come up empty, with one defunct effort and one that is much more complex than I'd like to start with.
So, can anyone point me at a good open source example of a plugin that would get me started, specifically something that creates custom table(s) and provides a CRUD like administration page for maintaining the tables. I'm sure I could write stand alone php scripts to do this, but I'd like to write it in the context of WP, and consider releasing it back on the community.
For a CRUD application in admin, I would like to recommend WP MVC. WP MVC is an MVC framework for WordPress, distributed as a plugin. It's not an out-of-the-box solution, but when mastered, it helps you to write quickly such applications. Latest stable version (1.2) allows you to integrate your custom models(stored in dedicated tables) with WordPress data (Posts,PostsMeta, Users/UsersMeta and Comments/CommentsMeta).
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Here's what I need: I have a table in a SQLite file, that contains items - descriptions, dimensions, image and thumbnail.
I need to allow someone from outside the company to edit this table through an "admin interface". I need a simple login mechanism to authenticate said user, and I need a form that shows all available rows in the table applicable to him/her, and allow editing the values. That may include uploading images.
Now, I've developed tons of these interfaces before, in several languages. What I'd like to ask is: is there a shortcut? Since this needs to be quick and dirty (i.e., this wasn't in the original plan, I'm not being paid for this, but I may lose a client if I don't have it in place) and be up as soon as possible, is there some open source solution, or any previous PHP code, that I can customize and use in this and future cases?
Any solution that will save me time is welcome.
Thanks for YOUR time :)
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Well if you can use a framework you could use an auto generated admin interface or scaffolding from a framework. Symfony and Cake both have this. Of course thats a lot of dead weight to have if the whole app/site isnt using the framework. But it would make it relatively painless to create. IF you can run this interface on a subdomain that would make it even esier since you dont have to worry about integrating it with anything existing except the DB and shared folder for the uploaded files.
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I work at a small college that wants to make "sites" for all of the academic departments (~30). I managed to talk them out of their original idea: 30 individual Wordpress installations. What a maintenance nightmare!
What I'm looking for is a CMS (preferably Python or PHP, as those are my areas of expertise) that can automagically create a subsection (or subsite, whatever the appropriate vernacular) complete with user and a couple of headings based on a template. So, I could just click a button and have a new subsection for a new department complete with its own authorized user, and default subsection headings/menu/pages.
Is this just wishful thinking? I don't mind getting my hands dirty (this would be the whole of my job duties), so what platform would be a good starting point for something like this? Open source is a must for me as I have literally no budget, and I'm probably going to have to dig pretty deep into the application.
Take a look at Drupal or Wordpress MU. With a little bit of scripting and code I think these could do what you need.
Take a close look at Wordpress MU especially. If they were talking about 30 Wordpress installations then Wordpress MU might be exactly what you want. It provides a unified administration backend to manage multiple wordpress blogs. It's based on the software used to run Wordpress.com. I used to work in an Academic Technologies department as a student programmer and while I was there I helped them get an installation of it set up. Let me tell you - compared to MovableType and Blackboard - it was a dream.
Take a look at Pinax. It uses a templating system to rapidly develop sites. Pinax was created around the idea that there are 'types' of websites and its ridiculous to keep writing the same code over and over for similar sites. This means you could use one of their pre-built templates or create your own and then when you want to build a new site just invoke the template and the site will be ready to go.
Plone does this use case very well. The WebLion project at Penn State is using Plone to deliver many such sub-sites for their university. You may be interested in their work.
http://plone.org
http://weblion.psu.edu