[GSixZero]

I work at a small company (~60 people), and I want to write a small web form survey which the employees can fill out about their computer usage.

I was thinking I could just host the survey on my desktop machine. I just need a little bit of advice about how to build the back end, and then how to harvest the data.

The survey will be just 15 or 20 questions, using text fields, drop down menus, etc... I'd like to be able to look at the results in a somewhat reasonable manner... (i.e. "6 out of 16 people chose option A" as well as "Steve, Stacy and Josh chose Option B, Jason, Karen, and Maria chose Option C")

Can someone give me any guidance about how I can go about this? I'm technically savvy, but haven't ever really dabbled in this stuff before.

[genevish]

While, relatively speaking, this is a fairly easy task, it may be a challenge if you've never used PHP or a SQL DBMS. Basically, you need to:

1. Install MySQL
2. Configure PHP
3. Write PHP survey

-Scott

[jhogarty]

If you are running a Mac desktop you can get MAMP to simplify things. Or XAMP for Windows - LAMP for Linux. That would give you a webserver (apache), PHP and a database (MySQL).

Will your questions be static or do you want to create your survey based on records in a database?
If you do not want to code it yourself there are many free CMSs' out there you could install that have Poll/Survey features built in.

J.