elogy / feedbackscript

php script providing anonymous feedback for students

Feedback-Script

This script based on PHP and the PHPMailer class gives students the opportunity to anonymously provide feedback to lectures, tutorial sessions etc. Once a new entry is received, an email is sent to the address specified. Additionally, the entries are recorded to a MySQL database. Each feedback entry is recorded with a timestamp, and a pseudonym (if the student chose to provide one). Other than this, the script does not perform any logging.

Installation

SMTP server

• put in the credentials to your mail server into the settings.php file:

$mail_server = "<url to smtp server>";
$mail_user = "username";
$mail_port = "25";
$mail_pw = "<mail password>";

Note: If you upload this to a server inside the University of Tübingen, you can simply use "smtpserv.uni-tuebingen.de" with an arbitrary username and an empty password.

Mail headers

• Specify the recipient and sender of the mail as well as the subject line inside the settings.php:

$sender_friendlyname = "Feedback-Mail";
$sender_mail = "";
$recipient_mail = "";
$mail_subject = "[Feedback] neuer Eintrag";

MySQL credentials

• also inside the settings.php file, put the credentials to your MySQL database:

$sql_server = "localhost";
$sql_user = "<username>";
$sql_db = "<database>";
$sql_pw = "<password>";

DB Initialization

• Upload everything to a PHP-enabled directory of your choice and navigate your browser to the _initdb.php file.
• Once the table is set up, you can (and probably should) delete this file.

Usage

• Use the link to the index.html file to give your students the opportunity to leave constructive feedback.
• Once a new entry is received, it is recorded to the MySQL database, along with a timestamp and a pseudonym, if the student chose one.
• Also, you will receive an e-mail once there is a new entry.

feedbackscript's Issues

Wrong quotation marks

Line 39 of send.php contains a wrong quotation mark, resulting in an error. How the hell did I not notice this one until now?

Update to PHP filter methods

The method filter_input() can and should be replaced by the appropriate PHP_SANITIZE methods.