One question surveys for easy data gathering.
Create a one-question survey to quickly gauge people's views, opinions, or knowledge. Display the results numerically and graphically.
Dependencies
Solstice - Solstice is a Web application development framework for
Perl. Based on the MVC programming paradigm, it provides
a sensible layout for Web applications that helps you
write applications faster and with fewer mistakes.
ThemePark
WebQ - WebQ is a survey and quiz creation tool with a number of
advanced features.
CrowdControl - CrowdControl provides widgets that let your application
group users together for purposes of authentication,
notification, and so forth.
PlotKit
Optional:
FCKEditor
Installation
After following direction at Installing Solstice, you're ready to install QuickPoll. As with Solstice, you have the option to install from a tar file, or from subversion.
Downloading Tar Files
cd solstice_apps
Download the current QuickPoll tarball from http://solstice.washington.edu/solstice/download/QuickPoll-current.tar.gz
tar -xvzf QuickPoll-current.tar.gz
Using Subversion
cd solstice_apps
svn co https://svn.cac.washington.edu/public/solstice/quickpoll/trunk/ quickpoll
Configuring QuickPoll
cd quickpoll
cp example_config.xml config.xml
In the <keys> section, the following can be changed:
- vote_location:
- help_url:
- title_truncate_length:
- embed_poll_width:
- embed_poll_height:
Create the QuickPoll database
mysql -u solstice -p
mysql> create database quickpoll;
mysql -u solstice -p quickpoll < install/newqp.sql
Restart Apache
sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 restart
Sources
Browse the sources online
SVN Checkouts
Please note that our SVN servers only accept SSL connections - don't forget that https://!
Tarballs