Hi to ya all!

So the installation went fine. The page is showing but i have the same as bashy, i think, i click on "Create New Survey" and the page refreshes and tha´s it.

Even if i try to view the existing surveys: the page refreshes and that´s it.

All permissions are set.

So who installed on 3.5.4?

Thanks for your help.

I get this message every time above the survey, any clues ?

Warning: Smarty error: problem writing './survey/smarty/templates_c/Default^available_surveys.tpl.' in /survey/smarty/Smarty.class.php on line 589

Check your apache error logs. There may not be enough memory for PHP

Did you follow this step:

cd /path/to/main/forum
chown -R apache:apache survey
chmod -R 744 survey

The idea with the apache-log was not so bad! :-)

I found:

PHP Fatal error: main() [<a href='function.require'>function.require</a>]: Failed opening required 'survey/classes/main.class.php' (include_path='.:') in /home/www/xxx/xxxx/vbulletin/survey.php on line 8

So what is to do?

Any hint?

Thanks!

I am a novice I would have no idea how to do that lot bar CHMOD, I don't know what apache is or where to even find it :o

I'm getting this:

That directory is chmoded 755, while the subfolders are 751, and the tpl files in them 644 (but for the life of me, it won't let me change their permissions!!!)

Did everything else you and DocVader pointed to.

Don't forget the owner step (chown).

Does the file exist at that path?

Check with the system admin, it would be hard for me to guess your environment.

Okay, I fixed the problem.

If you can't change the permissions via your FTP utility, then the best way to do it is through Cpanel. The permissions in Cpanel won't display the changes as you do them, but they ARE changed. I was frustrated because I didn't think it was working.

I recently upgraded to 3.5.4, and had to go to vbsurvey_install.php in my AdminCP directory, and clicked on Option #2 in the clean install section to get this mod to work after upgrading. It gave me an error, because of duplicate keys in my survey table, but it didn't hurt anything. Not sure why this was all needed, but that's what worked for me. Tam, Maybe an option to reinstall templates or rebuild templates after forum upgrade would help?

It appears that when upgrading VB, it wipes out the vbsurvey template, so it has to be reinstalled.

Yes!

The survey is an interesting hack. Thanks for providing it!

I can give the following feedback to help improve things:

1. It doesn't correctly respect its own usergroup setting. I have vb usergroup 1 (unregistered/guest) set to be allowed to take surveys and view results and when I attempt to navigate to survey.php, I get a login dialog.

2. Based on reading through this thread, you could probably save people some confusion by simply adding "go to yourforum/survey.php" to start making surveys. That final instruction is notably absent.

3. The page break handling is cumbersome. I should be able to enter questions, then a page break, then more questions. However, I have to go back and insert the page break by using the "insert after" feature, since a page break can't be the last question. The sanity check is good, but you should just display a warning, not prevent the operation. If you want to prevent the survey from working with a page break at the end, then throw the error and offer to delete it and continue.

4. Moving items around is tedious. After initially creating items, the box to insert at a specific position disappears from the edit window and you have to painstakingly click up-up-up-up or down-down-down, etc. on UI arrows to move things around in the question list.

Otherwise...so far so good. #1 is kind of a problem and I am about to go hack it, I guess.

OK...so...now that I have played around with it, the obvious reason for special casing the guest users to 0 access is that you can only have 1 unique user at an IP (even if it is a guest user). So, everyone needs a username.

For emailed surveys, it might work to use tokens in the links for each user so that they wouldn't have to register. But, I guess if you're going to email, then they might as well register at the forum It's just not optimal...and everyone has to be tracked.

It looks like vbSurvey is best for existing online communities. Based on my experience today, it does not seem to be a good replacement (in terms of recruitment) vs. an immediate paper survey. People don't seem to want to have to go through the registration process, but are willing to fill out an actual piece of paper.

In established, online communities where users don't have to register and already have an established traffic pattern, it would be great. They could take surveys all day.

From this reasoning, one feature vbSurvey could use is a mailmerge with a link token. To bridge the login overhead, the survey tool could take a list of email addresses, a note about the survey, and a replacement variable to insert a link. Then, it would generate a token based on some simple context-sensitive algorithm and apply it to the link, then do the email merge. All the survey admin would need to do is type up the note and paste in the address list. Remote users could click on the link and go straight to the survey without having to create a user account. (There are other services that work this way, I think).

Anyway...just a feature suggestion: email merge with an announcment and auto-generated unique, one-time, login token as part of the survey link.

I still think it's a handy product, but it is not turning out to be as useful as I initially expected because of the login constraint.

Thank you for this great feature tamarian. But I've a problem; I've uploaded the files but I don't see Go to AdminCP => vBulletin Options => vB Survey (UCCASS) and set the options for access and other settings, what have I done wrong ?

Another update: After my last post, I commented out a couple of checks to allow guests and eliminate IP checking. That helped a little, but introduces increased risk of flawed data collection. However, it does make it useful for doing data entry into a pre-defined database to get access to the stats and filtering. Being able to do survey email merge with one-time use tokens would be a great addition to your otherwise fine vb tool. The other thing that might be useful is a CSV import function to upload data records via the tool so that outside (paper) survey data efforts can be combined with web efforts. I'll have to take a look at some of the data filtering and provide feedback, etc.

phoneexpo: did you run the installer? If so, then go to your vbulletin adminCP and look at the last item under vBulletin Options at the top left. If not, then follow the directions for placing vbsurvey_install.php in your admincp directory, then direct your browser to: yourvbforumpath/youradmincpdirname/vbsurvey_install.php (for example: http://www.mydomain.com/forums/admin...ey_install.php.

Thanks zingo, I didn't run the install. I taught it was automatic. :)

Nice, clean survey!

[SUBSCRIBING for later reference...]

Nice survey, but one thing is very dangerous, if you go to the copyright link in the footer (http://www.bigredspark.com/) and try to open their forum it want to download a wmf file which contains a Trojan-Downloader.Win32.Agent.acd according to my virus program.
Thats not very trustful?

Keep in mind they may not know about it, as it's an old version of IPB. Send the webmaster an email and let them know.

Ok I sent him a mail but its not sure he read this, from him site:
But I think it is ok to warn the people here that they are directing their visitors to a trojan horse with this hack.

Awesome mod.. but I'm having a problem w/ the view "Results as a Table" as well as the Export Results to CSV as Text or Numeric Values options.

When I run any of those options, I get the header/column info, but no data...

edited to add:

I created a test survey and 2 "people" have answered it. The graphs display correctly, but when I export to CSV, this is what I get:

First of all, thanks for a great extension. I have installed this on 2 forums.

On one of the forums it works great, the other, when I browse to the survey.php file instead of the actual page I get a bunch of text

"input->clean_array_gpc('r', array( 'do' => TYPE_STR, 'sid' => TYPE_INT, 'aid' => TYPE_INT)); if (empty($vbulletin->GPC['do'])) $vbulletin->GPC['do'] = 'main'; $sid = intval($vbulletin->GPC['sid']); $navbits = array("survey.php?$session[sessionurl]" => 'Survey'); $vbulletin->userinfo['can_admin_surveys'] = in_array($bbuserinfo['usergroupid'], explode(',', $vbulletin->options['vb_survey..."

Does anyone know why this is happening? The other PHP pages for the site work fine, just survey.php seems to be having the problem.

I have copied a fresh survey.php to no avail.

Thanks,

OK found the problem.

The begining code of survey.php had <? I changed it to <?php

:banana:

Can we upgrade to uccass 1.81 and keep the vb integration intact?

No, won't work.

John confirms that their IPB forum was messed with by script kiddies, and it's been cleaned, and will upgrade soon:

http://www.bigredspark.com/forums/in...wtopic=592&hl=

Yes, maybe a new vb customer :)

tamarian:

Any idea on what might be causing this problem? :)

Torqued, I'm guessing 2 responses is lower than some privacy limit. Try to export the results of the sample survey provided as it is a large set.

I'm getting the same results (no data exported) on the Example Command Climate Assessment. :(

Same here, the export only exports the headers...

OK, I think my problem is that I had a historical (paper) survey to key in. So I disabled the code which checked if the user previously completed the survey. After keying in all the results, I changed the code back.

Everything looks good on the graphical display but does not export. This is probably because all the vbsurvey_completed_surveys have the same UID and SID.

Is there a way for me to fix this?

Thanks

Are there any errors reported in the apache error log?

I just tested this and get no errors in my apache error log when trying to view the results as a table or when trying to export the results to a file.

Still not getting data in table view or export.

I would love to see an option to disable that checking whether a user has completed the survey... maybe make it an option on the Survey Properties screen?

Will this work on vb 3.5.3 & 3.5.4 ?

I have it working on 3.5.4 (except for the export issue)