Where can I get a script to submit questions and answer them?

shayans · #1 (**permalink**) 07-03-07, 05:50 AM

Is there a script out there that works as follows:

Visitor asks question on website, goes to Admin section. Admin answers question and now question and answer are posted together on the front page. Front page is constantly updated with these answered questions, newest on top. Search on top should search all of answered questions.

Nico · #2 (**permalink**) 07-03-07, 06:02 AM

Topic moved to script requests.

blake · #3 (**permalink**) 07-03-07, 10:50 AM

What language are you using?

shayans · #4 (**permalink**) 07-03-07, 01:42 PM

Any language is fine with me. Do you know of anything like this?

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Originally Posted by blake

What language are you using?

job0107 · #5 (**permalink**) 07-03-07, 04:21 PM

What you are looking for would be possible to create. You could use a database to store questions and answers. And if the information isn't sensitive then you could use a file system if you didn't have a database. Are you able to program in HTML and PHP? If not are you willing to pay someone to create a program for you? If you are willing to pay, I could create a program that would do exactly what you want.

blake · #6 (**permalink**) 07-03-07, 04:59 PM

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Originally Posted by shayans

Any language is fine with me. Do you know of anything like this?

No, I don't know of anything off hand... But it wouldn't be hard to create...

I'm an ASP developer, so the easiest method I know of, would be ASP/MSACCESS... It wouldn't be that hard at all, I'd recommend reading up on ASP and SQL, you should be able to handle it, no problem...

shayans · #7 (**permalink**) 07-03-07, 05:34 PM

This is very simple, so I'm just looking for something already made.

How much would you charge me?

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Originally Posted by job0107

What you are looking for would be possible to create. You could use a database to store questions and answers. And if the information isn't sensitive then you could use a file system if you didn't have a database. Are you able to program in HTML and PHP? If not are you willing to pay someone to create a program for you? If you are willing to pay, I could create a program that would do exactly what you want.

job0107 · #8 (**permalink**) 07-03-07, 08:46 PM

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This is very simple, so I'm just looking for something already made.

How much would you charge me?

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Visitor asks question on website, goes to Admin section. Admin answers question and now question and answer are posted together on the front page.

Yes the responses back and forth can be accomplished fairly easily.

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Front page is constantly updated with these answered questions, newest on top.

Ok, so now you may also need a little Javascript.

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Search on top should search all of answered questions.

Now for this you will need to know how to perform searches and
to write the programs that do the searches and you will also have
to make programs that either work with a database or a file system.

Tell me what you want.
Extremely simple? Or maybe a little format and some graphics? Or all the bells and whistles?

Give me some idea of what you want your pages to look like.

Then we can discuss it.

shayans · #9 (**permalink**) 07-03-07, 08:55 PM

Very simple. Just programming. Formatting only to necessity to display the questions and answers together properly. What I want exactly:

"Visitor asks question on website, goes to Admin section. Admin answers question and now question and answer are posted together on the front page. Front page is constantly updated with these answered questions, newest on top. Search on top should search all of answered questions.

Person who asked question will be notified via email and a link to see answer.

Three additional pages: Terms of Service, Privacy Policy, and About Me."

Would you like me to clarify anything specific?

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Originally Posted by job0107

Tell me what you want.
Extremely simple? Or maybe a little format and some graphics? Or all the bells and whistles?

Give me some idea of what you want your pages to look like.

Then we can discuss it.

job0107 · #10 (**permalink**) 07-03-07, 09:29 PM

This is the way I see it. A person inputs a question into a form and maybe some supporting information about whom the person is including their email address, then submits the form. When the form is submitted, the data is collected and written to a database or file system (here on referred to as database).
Daily the Admin. department checks the database for new questions using their Admin. program (web page). The Admin. fills out another form in their web page with the answer to the question, then submits their form. When the form is submitted, the data is collected and written to the database and an email is fired off to the originator of the question informing them that they have an answer waiting and a link to their web page.
Now their web page not only has the question form, it also queries the database for all answered questions and displays them on their page when they login. This means that you may also need a login page.
And somewhere on the page there is another single field input form that can be used to search the database and display the results of the search
in place of the current query.

I figure a program of this scope may take a few days to put together. Now I'm not a greedy person and I won't charge you $200 or even $100 dollars an hour like some programmers charge. If you want a custom program written for you that does exactly what you want it to do, I would be willing to create a simple one as described for $100. And then if you want other features added at a later time, we can discuss it again.