My Online Card Sorting Is Ready

It is around two weeks which I working to make my online survey. As you knew there is no free option for doing online survey especially with card sorting technique. So, I decided to design it with PHP and MySQL. It was very interesting and enjoyable activity to build it myself. I love DIY.  You can take a look at it and feel how it will be if you make your card sorting survey yourself.

Absolutely, It worth to do it. However, at least you should have some background in HTML, programming and database designing. Another requirements are PHP, Javascript, Jquery, CSS. If you have these capabilities and you want to build your online card sorting website, you can do it quickly and easily.

Now I am looking for free host and domain. If you know a good one which support PHP, Apachi and MySql version 5 and above please let me to know. Thanks a lot.

Connecting Wamp Server and Aptana IDE (PHP programming)

Finally I discussed with my supervisor about making a survey or using online survey. He advise me to implement your survey by PHP and MySQL. He mentioned maybe it is a little more consuming but it worth. I should confess that spending time for such issues witch is not related directly to my PhD, does not make me happy. However university does not have any budget for us. So, I should look at these problems as an opportunity. I always wanted to learn PHP. Now I can spend my time on it and learn it.

Today afternoon I was looking for user friendly and open-source IDE for PHP programming. Among different IDEs. Eventually, I selected Aptana. It was very nice IDE and similar to Eclipse. It has very useful features which can make programming easier and faster. Moreover, you can use this IDE more than PHP for Ruby, JavaScript and etc. You can study all features of this handy IDE hear.

This afternoon only one thing suffered me a lot. I had installed Wamp Server on my computer. Nevertheless, Aptana could not detect my wamp server. I did some search on the internet and I understood I should define a local server for Aptana and say the location of my server (Read this page to understand how to do it). I did but still it did not work and it brought its default web server which was not connected to anywhere. After awhile I read somewhere else that in Run>Run Configuration I should say to my browsers to use that local server which I have created. I did, but guess it did not work again! Whyyyyyyyyy? I was getting crazy. I did all the things right why it does not work?

I was getting disappointed from Aptana and I was deciding to switch to another IDE till I found a comment from another user who had similar problem. It seems that this problem has appeared in Apanda version 3.9 later. What was the solution? Incredible! Instead of creating Simple Web Server (local) we should create External Web Server. Two new setting should be done. It needs to commands for running and stopping wamp server. In following figure I have shown required setting which is essential for connecting wamp server and Aptana. These two commands were: NET START wampapache and NET STOP wampapache. I should appreciate to that user who solve my problem and my afternoon headache.