Creating a PHP Portal for Perseus Survey Solutions

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Creating a PHP Portal for Perseus Survey Solutions

• SMD12 HighEdWebDev 2006
• Tuesday, October 24th
• 330pm 400pm

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Client

• New York State Office of Temporary and Disability
  Services (OTDA)
• Food Stamp Management Evaluation Survey (FSMES)

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Requirements

• Online and offline deployment
• Administer surveys and audit progress
• User portal
• Assign and group surveys

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Issues

• Predecessors existing system
• Did not adhere to campus standards
• Completely separate application for laptop
• Nigh-impossible to maintain
• Perseus Limitations
• Cannot assign surveys or case studies
• No portal to audit progress across multiple
  surveys

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Goal

• Replicate existing functionality utilizing
  standards
• Develop maintainable system
• Use same application both online and offline
• Ease user experience

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Tools Used

• Perseus Survey Solutions Pro 6
• PHP
• MySQL
• Apache
• WAMP
• CSS

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Perseus SurveySolutions Pro

• Enterprise survey platform
• Multiple deployment options
• Advanced Reporting

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Laptop

• Uses WAMP
• Windows Apache MySQL PHP
• No internet connection needed
• Application submits locally
• Encrypted export for transport

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Deployment

• Access
• Unlocked
• Emailed instructions to users
• Laptop Deployment
• Download installation files
• CD-ROM for some sites

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Login
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Home
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Survey
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Admin
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User Info
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Survey Info
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Client Reaction

• New interface easier to use
• Immediate auditing useful
• More streamlined
• No complaints about interface (yet)

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2007 Improvements

• Ability for different users to take grouped
  surveys different number of times
• Ability to require minimum number of each type of
  case studies
• Smarty PHP Templating
• AJAX Enhanced Interface
• In-survey progress auditing

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Questions?

• jpeck_at_oswego.edu
• 315.312.5695