Install phpesp

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Introducing phpESP

A php based scripts that enable you to create and manage surveys of your own. In addition to that, you can gather all the results and save them to a database for future use. phpESP is an easy web application to use.

Installing phpESP – Fantastico De Luxe

• Step 1: Login to your Admin cPanel http://www.yourdomain.com/cpanel.
• Step 2: Locate and click on the Fantastico De Luxe Icon.
• Step 3: Under the “Polls and Surveys” section, find and click on “phpESP”.
• Step 4: In the right panel, select “New Installation”.
• Step 5: on page 1 of the installation process, you will be prompted for the installation directory. To have “phpESP” installed on your website’s main page (http://www.yourdomain.com) leave it blank else, insert the directory of your choice (http://www.yourdomain.com/phpesp). Fill out all the required information accordingly and click “Install phpESP”.

Installing phpESP – Manually

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• Step 1: Browse the official site of phpESP and download the latest stable version of phpESP to your desktop.
• Step 2: Uncompress the downloaded file to a specified directory on your desktop.
• Step 3: Upload the extracted files to your web hosting account via FTP to a specified directory of your choice (e.g. /phpesp).
• Step 4: Login to your Admin cPanel, locate and click on MySQL Databases.
• Step 5: Create a MySQL database name “phpesp” and save its name along with the username and password for future use.

• Step 6: Also from within cPanel go to “PhpMyAdmin”, select the database you have just created, and click on “SQL”.

• Step 7: Copy the content of the file named "mysql_populate.sql" which is available under “/public_html/phpesp/scripts/db”, and paste it into the SQL Form and click Go. This should create the database tables of phpESP.

• Step 6: After successful creation of the database and its tables, go to the location of your newly uploaded files: http://www.yourdomain.com/phpesp/

Using phpESP

Create a new survey

To create a survey:

1. Login to phpESP administrative backend.
2. Click on “Create a New Survey”
3. Fill in the required fields and move along the wizard to fill all the 5 steps and provide all the data required.
4. Once finished, you will have to activate your survey in order to be able to use it.

Change the status of a Survey

To change the status of a survey:

1. Login to phpESP administrative backend.
2. Click on “Change the status of a survey”
3. Click on the status that you would like to change the survey to. (delete/activate/end)

Create a new user

To create a new user:

1. Login to phpESP administrative backend.
2. Click on “Manage Designer Account”
3. Fill in the required fields and select the proper privileges
4. Click “Add”

Backup phpESP Database

• Step 1: Login to your hosting account cPanel, locate and click on the “PhpMyAdmin” icon.
• Step 2: From within PhpMyAdmin, choose the phpESP Database.
• Step 3: On the top menu of the database table list, click on “Export”.
• Step 4: In the export options, make sure you:
  • “Select All” Tables
  • Check “Structures” property.
  • Check “Data” property.
  • Check “Save as” option

• Step 5: Once you double check that all the options in step 4 are set, click Go and save to the file to your desktop.