Hi All, I am trying to locate a good survey/questionnaire program, which I am not having very good luck at so far. There are a lot of good ones available, but the problem I am running into is not the form/survey side of the software, but the database side. I need to have a web questionnaire that has a database that is easily viewable and searchable to anyone doing research on my site. I am the Webmaster for The Alien Seeker News. I need a website survey/questionnaire that I will be using for UFO sighting reports. So far all the surveys I am seeing out there has the database as graft-bars. I want something that the user can do a search by: Date, Time, State listing, shape object of sighted, etc…and be able to view the text description among other parts of the survey, but not in a graft-bar type. One of the features I have seen on a couple of the survey software’s that is available is a browse box, which allows the user to browse their computer files to upload images to the database. This is another part of the database I would like to have available. When someone is viewing the database it would show if there were an image of that sighting available or not and the person could just click on the link to open the image with all other information about the sighting, such a the time, date, state, city, text description, etc., which could all be viewed all on the same page. I will also be adding two other surveys: abduction reports and Animal/cattle mutilation reports, so I want to be able to easily configure the software for different surveys, and to configure them to look good on my site by using html and to be able to easily add questions. I have no knowledge of any of the programming scripts, except for html and I do not have anytime to learn them. My server is unix and I was told that I can use PHP, Perl, or CGI software. The forum I am using is PHP. Now that I said that I have no idea what any of these are other then html, which I have used a lot, so you can see I am in the dark. An example to a database that comes close to what I am looking for is here at the National UFO Reporting site. I would appreciate if you would take a look at a couple of these web pages and let me know if you know of any software that is available that comes close to this and if some features such as a browse feature can be added (as described above) or if someone could create me something at a reasonable cost: The Reporting Form Page: http://www.ufocenter.com/reportform.html The Online Database Page: http://www.nuforc.org/webreports.html I hope I explained what I am looking for without confusing anyone since I have a hard time talking about something I know nothing about. I also hope that I have posted this question in the right palce, if not, then I apologize. Best Regards, Don
For the first page it can be done in HTML, and having it send everything back to the DB with a little php. The second one could be tricky, since everytime you click its going to pull from the DB. Its not going to be an easy project, I would suggest hiring someone. rentacoder.com wouldn't charge you more then 500$ for this project.
Thanks Eliteworx for the reply and the suggestion and I will check with rentacoder.com and see waht they say. Have a safe and happy new yesr! Best Regards, Don
I wouldn't do one page in HTML and the rest PHP simply because it's not scalable. Whenever you want to change afield name or add something new you'd have to edit 2 files. If you code it in PHP and output templated HTML -OR- output HTML with PHP variables it'll make everything a lot easier to edit and expand in the future. I think $500 might be a bit much as a max cost for this project. Try posting it in the codingfaq paid requests section.