Using MMF2Dev to create an online survey

[Filip]

Greetings to all!

There is an online survey I need to set up. I was thinking about those sites where you can create one and pay monthly fee, but I am going to need it for a long time and creating one on my own with MMF seemes as a more economical solution.

Now, my experience and knowledge of MMF goes this far : Each question would have its own frame, 6 checkboxes for every question, 1 value for each checkbox. Checking a box, adds +1 to its value. Entering a password inside a console/textbox which I will create displays all the values and provides an insight into the survey results. There should also be a reset code I can enter into the console to reset everything back to 0.

The problem is my lack of experience with anything that has to do with hosting an application online (I only know that the app should be exported in HTML5 or Flash format). How do I make the application accessible to multiple users simultaneously and how do I save each of their inputs/values? Which type of hosting do I need to keep the survey up and running? I read about .ini files that can store global values, but I am not sure what would happen if multiple users try to store information at the same time.

To cut to the chase - end result I am looking for is the screen showing all the values.

Also, if everything else goes well, and any of this is actually possible - is there a way of making comment boxes under every question? In theory, I would add a textbox that, upon changing a frame/question, adds a paragraph to a string shown in the survey overview screen and there would be a button next to each of the strings for showing next/previous comment.

Thank you so much for your time

[Ryan]

MMF isn't really the tool to use here.

You're going to need to host it on the web, so you'll already have access to php/mysql which comes with any good hosting plan. The next step is to follow a basic online tutorial for creating a php survey form and you'll be done in no time. For your purposes, you only need to learn a few basic php commands, and know how to setup and connect to a mysql database, and you'll have your survey. PHP is only difficult if you're trying to do something big or ambitious, online surveys is child's play for PHP.