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QuickPoll

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