Written in PHP with MySQL database back-end, PHPSurveyor or LimeSurvey is an open source online survey application which enables users to develop, publish and collect responses to surveys. With phpSurveyor surveys can include branching, custom preferred layout and design and can provide basic statistical analysis of survey results. With phpSurveyor or LimeSurvey, surveys can be public, or can be strictly controlled through the use of "once-only" tokens for each survey participant.

LimeSurvey/PHPSurveyor currently offers:

• Unlimited number of surveys at the same time.
• Unlimited number of participants to a survey.
• Unlimited number of questions in a survey (only limited by your database).
• User-Management.
• Multi-Lingual Surveys.
• 20 different question types with more to come.
• Ability to set conditions for questions depending on earlier answers (branching the survey).
• Creation of a printable survey version.
• Assessment surveys.
• Re-usable editable answer sets.
• Anonymous and Not-Anonymous survey.
• Ready-made importable questions.
• Optional public registration for surveys.
• Sending of invitations, reminders and tokens by email.
• Template editor for creating your own page layout.
• Cookie or session based surveys.
• Open and closed group of participant surveys.
• Option for participants to buffer answers to continue survey at a later time
• Enhanced import and export functions to text, CSV and MS Excel format
• Extended and user-friendly administration interface
• Survey expiry dates for automation
• Back-office data entry possibility
• Basic statistical and graphical analysis with export facility

Tarun Aggarwal, MagicNLogic