Category Archives: Poll

Featured Script: Lime Survey

Posted by on October 22, 2012 Comments Off on Featured Script: Lime Survey

Lime Survey

Who: Any kind of business, local community, university student clubs

What: Lime Survey is an open source online survey application written in PHP based on a MySQL, PostgreSQL or MSSQL database. It’s well known for its ease to use and no coding required for installation.

When: Instant Install

Where: Softaculous under the category “Polls and Surveys”

Why: Surveys can aid businesses in doing market research, helping them better understand their customers’ needs and preferences. These kinds of information are invaluable because businesses can then conduct analysis to enhance customer service, product features, and uncover the reasons as to why certain products or services lack popularity. Social media channels such as Facebook and Twitter are good tools for reaching out to customers to conduct surveys, but having your business survey published on your business domain is ultimately the optimal choice in terms of maintaining a professional image for your company. With Lime Survey, you can quickly create a survey on your business domain in just a few clicks. Lime Survey features:

  • -Unlimited number of surveys
  • -Unlimited number of questions in a survey
  • -Unlimited number of participants to a survey
  • -Multi-Lingual Surveys
  • -20 different question types
  • -WYSIWYG HTML Editor
  • -Integration of pictures and movies
  • -Creation of a printable survey version
  • -Re-usable editable answer sets
  • -Ready-made importable questions
  • -Assessment surveys
  • -Anonymous and Not-Anonymous survey
  • -Open and closed group of participant surveys
  • -Optional public registration for surveys
  • -Sending of invitations, reminders and tokens by email
  • -Option for participants to buffer answers to continue survey at a later time
  • -Cookie or session based surveys
  • -Template editor for creating your own page layout
  • -Template-support (change the outlook of the page in just a few clicks)
  • -Extended and user-friendly administration interface
  • -Back-office data entry possibility
  • -Survey expiry dates for automation
  • -Enhanced import and export functions
  • -Basic statistical and graphical analysis with export facility

How: Lime Survey (and 250 more web applications) are already included in Softaculous for FREE. Subscribe to our Unlimited Hosting plan to install this powerful open source web application! To view the demo page, please click the image below!

Easy Poll

Posted by on December 16, 2008 Comments Off on Easy Poll

Easy Poll 

Easy Poll

Easy Poll is a PHP script to create your own poll. It’s very easy to install and run. Design of the poll is fully editable, you may insert the poll into any page you want. You can use it on an unlimited number of webpages for free.

This tutorial explains to you how to configure your Easy Poll to publish to your Doteasy server. To follow this tutorial you will need to have your Doteasy Member ID and password, an Easy Poll scripts and an internet connection.

*This script is supported by Doteasy.com Ultra and Unlimited hosting packages.

Easy Poll : Installation Guide :


    1. Download the current zip file from the Easy Poll’s Official Website here.
    1. Uncompress the zip file using WinZip or WinRAR to a temporary directory in your local computer.
    1. You can create a folder called “Poll” in the “/var/www/html” directory. Then you can upload all the Easy Poll files to the web server using a FTP client. For FTP upload instructions, please click here.
    2. Open www.yourdomain.com/Poll/setup.php file via your Web Browser to begin the installation. Please replace yourdomain with your domain name.
  1. Following are the settings for the installations:

    Mysql database host: 127.0.0.1

    Mysql database username: Your database user name

    Mysql database password: Your database password

    Name of mysql database : Your database name

    Table name: Do not need to change.

    Full path to the folder where this scripts is installed. No trailing slash: Do not need to change.

    URL of the directory where your php scripts are installed. No trailing slash: Do not need to change.

    URL of a page to display after a vote has been sent: Do not need to change.

    Step 1

  2. Go to the admin area (both username and password are “admin1”), to “configuration” and enter a value to each field.

    Step 2

    Step 3

    Now you can create a poll and check if all works fine. The poll may be added to any page by inserting

    to the place where the poll should be viewable.

    Each visitor voting in the poll gets a cookie so nobody will be able to vote again in the same poll.

    Copy and paste the scripts code to the html souce file to test the poll scripts.

    Step 4


    Doteasy client? Need a free installation service for this script? Please contact us
    here    .

Easy Poll References:

Official Website: http://www.izeit.nu/

Download: Easy Poll

Official Support Forum: http://www.phpwebscripts.com/forum/index.php