I have a cakePHP community. User are able to signup and login. I like to create a survey using SurveyMonkey.
Therefor I create the survey and make it available to my members using the direct URL. In my member database I have to save the information "did completed the survey = yes/no".
Is there any way to identify the user filling in the survey and write this information into the database?
SurveyMonkey has an API https://developer.surveymonkey.com/ , that let you collect info from your survey (completedf or not).
This is the only way i think, (if it s not include in your website).
I know that you can simply do this with Examinare Survey Tool. What you do first is that you use the API inside Examinare to add a recipient for all the users in the survey base.
Use the PHP Wrapper library in their developer site.
Loop it through and use the https://developer.examinare.com/php-wrapper-library/ and use the example code.
If you let people register with same email more than 1 time then save the ContactID into your database on the recipient.
Then to not create an email invite you use this : markrecipientstosurvey
The surveyID is available inside the Examinare account.
When you done this script part then make it as a cronjob for instance inside the crontab -e
I would run it every 30 minutes or 1 per hour.
Next part you create a page for the survey redirect where you use the function: listsurveysbyuser
to get the survey version and url
(there is a special link for the mobile user that even works for the normal mobile phone NOT only smartphones)
Now you just redirect them to the survey. If you want them to return to your site after then you use the redirect_url parameter that is added to the url or use the redirect inside your account. Ask support about that if you need :) They are fast... Never had to wait more than a couple of minutes.
When the person return then just check if they are marked as complete with the same api call: listsurveysbyuser
Looks much but it is very easy to implement and if you have any problems then just ask the support at support#examinare.com I have asked alot and never had them to say that it can not be done. Really nice!
EDIT:
I see that they just released a tutorial much better than my example:
https://developer.examinare.com/how-to-use-surveys-in-cakephp-with-very-little-development/
One option:
Use unique Custom Variables in the URL that is visited by each member of the community
For example, https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/your_survey?userid=$my_user_id
Note that you can create weblink or email collectors with the API (endpoints: create_flow or create_collector).
Then track the responses using the get_respondent_list or get_responses endpoints of the API.
Note: Please confirm with the Survey Monkey API team that the custom variables can be read via the API.
Another option:
Use the email collector (create_flow) API endpoint and send it to your members' email addresses.
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My scenario:
I have an application within which users keep their own journals. For some of the journal records, i want to enable them to post to their facebook timeline.
It was rather straightforward with an old api (obtaining token and posting) but with a new Sharing Product, it seems impossible because its intended to use ograph data and backlink from facebook post to the page within the app but since the journal post itself is for logged user only, i don't see a way how could it work.
So, the question is:
How to enable users to share (actually, "replicate" is more accurate word) content from their authorization protected area within my application to their facebook timeline?
PS.
I am aware of solutions like: Auto post (user behalf) on facebook but that's an old api.
You can not create new content like this any more in any automated way, you can only let your users share links.
But you can point the Share button to any URL you like (parameter href), it does not have to be that of the current page.
Facebook will follow whatever you have set as og:url or canonical, so that would have to be the version without authorization then.
That would also be the URL that users clicking on the link in that post would be redirected to.
I'm creating my first application that requires me to update the app based on user input. I've been searching for the best way to send input to me. For example, I have a button that when the user presses I would like to send me the information they've added to a text field. Being new to this, I thought this could be done by simply sending the information to a specified email, but from what I've researched I will need some sort of database. Looking through the Apple Developer Documentation I don't even know which topic I should be looking at to figure this out, any help or direction would be very helpful!
You need to setup a server (using an API) to receive the information.
Usually you will use a webservice to receive the info from the app, although there are other ways to do that.
Sending an email through iOs would require the user to accept the email that is being sent, so doesn't look like a good idea.
Take a look at some options available to create webservices (django rest framework or flask), Google's Firebase also can be handy in this situation, since is only integrating it with your app and storing the data you want to store, with easy integration for Authentication and user tracking.
I'd like to create visualforce page that inserts a record into salesforce account object. However, I expect some of the page users won't have salesforce accounts. Can they still access it? If not, what are the alternatives that can be used to visualforce page in this case? (Please don't consider Web to Lead Forms).
Thanks,
Yes, it's possible. Go read about Salesforce Sites. For a start:
http://wiki.developerforce.com/page/Websites
http://wiki.developerforce.com/page/An_Introduction_to_Force.com_Sites
(of course it's also possible to write that page in say Java/.NET/PHP and use integration via SOAP or REST to talk to Salesforce... but these 2 main links will keep the whole solution within SF so no need to need to learn new language, have extra maintenance effort etc)
Sites are VF pages that expose a bit of your company's data without need to log in. You can use them to input data too, just remember that in theory anybody could learn the link and spam you (not too different from web2lead, inbound email handlers etc). You specify security in a way similar to Profiles, the records will have "Created By = {site name} Guest User".
I don't think there's anything out of the box to restrict visibility, they're open to whole world. So if you would want something similar to login IP ranges (so only sales reps from your office's network can enter data) - you might have to write some logic in the controller.
I need your precious help. I'm working hard on organizing a contest linked to a wordpress site. That's the way it should work:
There's a contest. The user have to register as new user in WP (there's also the Facebook Connect/Open Graph) to enter the contest.
When a new user register himself, the system sends him an email: "Congratulations! You are a new user. Here there are some invitation codes (or links) to invite your friends. If they register here with the invitation code (or link), you'll receive a gift".
How can i do this workflow? I need to generate some codes (or links) every time a new user enter the WP site and assign them (linking those data to the users). I need to know if a new user (called B) comes to my site thanks to another user (called A), in order to give to A a gift.
Thank you guys.
You must make a frontend registration. Then, after user is registered you send him an email like www.yourdomain.com/register?uid=his_id(link to te registration form with his id as a parameter).
The when he passes the link to his friend B, friend B is registering and you check if there's a $_GET['uid']. It yes you add him a meta containing the id.
To make a front-end registeration, you should check this article.
For mail sending you could use wp_mail() function.
For passing params in the url and accessing you must be familiar with $_GET
For adding a meta for an user you must use the add_user_meta(). function.
The above steps are not necessarily difficult if you know basic PHP and willing to learn from Wordpress codex.
We created a plug called Cm Invitation Codes that allows you to assign codes per groups. This way you can know from which site each registration is coming and control also the number of user registration from a specific site. Try CM Invitation Code in WordPress Plugin Directory http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/cm-invitation-codes/
I a new programmer and trying to implement a facebook type "feed" in my application. Like Whenever a user do some changes in his profile his linked profiles will get to know that in the form of news feed.
But I am stuck on that as I thought whenever any user saves any data (like "News", "Blog", "Event" or any "Comment") just send the id of the respective classes to the linked profiles and they will see it. Since the id is not generated before the object is saved , the problem is how can I send them. I thought of following workarounds but each have some problem.
Whenever a user posts a news .... a Post object will be made and added to User's Post Collection.
But How do the other users will knew about it.....
1) Send them the id .... but when the id is not created how can you send them the id.
2) Send them the post message and when ever they will click them ... the latest post to them from the particular user will be shown.. but if more than 3 messages then which will be shown?? Shown by the post creation Date no post greater than that date is shownn....but he needs to be shown newer posts..
3) Save the post in all followers feed. the data will be much larger then
4) all the followers on login will check all the persons they are following and save their feed after the time stamp? How to implement this as the Post is saved in User's Profile so I would have to check all the following person and then just check the feed and show them on his feed box; I think I would have to use batch Processes. Processing will take much longer.
I am using objectify-appengine to do operations on GAE.
Any help is appreciated
Are you wanting to update the page with posts in real time like on Facebook and Twitter? To achieve this on Google App Engine you can use the Channel API, which works in conjunction with Javascript to listen for new data and update the DOM.
This talk at Google I/O 2009 by Brett Slatkin describes exactly the pattern you should use for this.