Limesurvey with google apps

April 23, 2009 6:32 PM

I would like to use my existing google apps domain with the open source limesurvey? Is this possible? If not are there any other alternitives besides using google docs (this does not provide enough control) which I can use on my own domain?
posted by Eapoe to computers & internet (5 comments total)

What are you trying to do exactly? How do google docs fit -- they're not a survey tool, are they? I'm assuming you want to have people do surveys on www.yourdomain.com? You own the domain. You could purchase regular web hosting and setup limesurvey there. Google never needs to know about lime, and lime doesn't need to know about google -- they can coexist peacefully.

I've always had my limesurveys on a subdomain (survey.mydomain.com, for example), but there's no reason you couldn't do it at the root.
posted by cgg at 7:51 PM on April 23

@CGG Google Doc's has spreadsheet forms option that can be used to do simple surveys that link back to a spreadsheet to obtain the results. As for the web hosting, I purchased the domain through google and use a lot of the features provided by google apps but would love to know how to use limesurvey on that domain without moving to other hosting.
posted by Eapoe at 8:55 PM on April 23

Wufoo is not specifically a survey building tool, but it allows you to quickly and easily build forms which you can use for surveys. I'm about to create one to solicit feedback from my users about the website I'm going to rebuild for them. If you have HTML smarts and a server, you can integrate their forms with your web-pages. There are a free version and some reasonably priced paid-for alternatives. Their support is really excellent as well.
posted by BrokenEnglish at 4:39 AM on April 24

there is some advice for getting a googlepages page to interact with php/mysql hosted elsewhere. It looks like you have to somehow convert whatever php you want to work into a google gadget. If you're hosting the backend somewhere else, it seems like you'd be just as well off to just link to a page hosted there from your google site.
posted by a robot made out of meat at 8:44 AM on April 24

If your host supports PHP/MySQL, then you can install LimeSurvey. See their requirements here.

This will allow you to conduct your survey and store the results - separately from Google Apps. You will need to learn how to export it into a format compatible with Google Apps if you'd like to use Google's tools to analyze it (it looks like LimeSurvey can export to Excel format).

If you are unfamiliar with installing a PHP application on a website (you'll need to know some basics like how to unzip, FTP, creating a MySQL database) you should probably ask a knowledgeable friend for help.
posted by exhilaration at 1:04 PM on April 24