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 - Themepark is where you can find themes or skins to change the look and feel of Solstice applications.
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 - PlotKit allows for the creation of attractive graphs and charts.
Optional:
FCKEditor - A Solstice wrapper around a rich-text editor. This application provides centralized HTML-editing capabilities to Solstice applications, leveraging the FCK Editor project.
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.eplt.washington.edu/download/QuickPoll-current.tar.gz
tar -xvzf QuickPoll-current.tar.gz
Using Subversion
cd solstice_apps
svn co https://solstice.eplt.washington.edu/svn/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