Looking for survey software

timjpriebe's picture

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I'm looking for some good open-source PHP, MySQL survey software.

I'm actually starting out with just a one question survey for a client, but there is the possibility of a more involved survey in the future.

The ideal software would be skinnable and have the ability to use images for questions.

Anyone know of any good survey software that fits the bill? The PHP and MySQL parts are musts.

Megan's picture

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Joined: Jun 1999

I was looking into this awhile back. I found two that were half decent, but they both neeeded a lot of work to get them to be standards compliant. I have temporarily abandoned using software at all now in favour of designing my own php forms. The options I found were just too poorly designed.

The ones I tried are:

PHP Surveyor - free, open source, but the templates were all table based which was obviously not acceptable to me. The admin control panel is terrible too.

Simple Web Survey - I liked this one but the project doesn't seem to have been updated for a few years so that put me off.

There's another one I found that was just called "Open Source Survey". I tried the online demo and found it hard to use so I didn't go with that one. On a hotscript search a couple of other options come up that I haven't looked at yet.

Let me know if you find anything good - I still haven't given up on using a pre-made solution for this.

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