Martin Dougiamas

Well, in general I like my code to read as English-like as possible, and data is almost always passed around as objects.

I like to refer to $question->id rather than $question->questionid. Similarly $module->course worked better for me than $module->courseid at the time, though probably if I was doing it again I might do this differently.

So, yes, almost every table has a unique "id" field, and foreign tables reference that field using the plain name of the table, usually.

An exception is userid, which had to be changed from "user" because it's a reserved word in non-MySQL databases. That was enough of a pain to change at the time - so I'm not anticipating any more changes for a while.

No, that's exactly right - a home-made survey is the same as a quiz with no correct answers and no grading.

In my opinion, it would be much more useful to add no-grading and answer-statistics to the quiz module, since then the hard bits (all the question types, import formats etc) will be shared and consistent. There are bugs filed on these two features for quizzes already.

I would much rather the survey module keep it's focus on providing standard, pre-tested, translatable "learning environment instruments". I have always had some thoughts about eventually allowing sites to connect via moodle.com so that surveys can be traded and results can be shared, compared, analysed and discussed from inside the survey report. There still needs to be a GUI for the survey module, but it would be a lot more specific than the quiz module - for instance there is the notion of scales to help even out certain variables. Perhaps to avoid confusion it should be renamed the 'Questionnaire' module (and I promised after readings->resources that I'd never rename another module!)

And of course for really easy no-fuss surveys there is the choice module.

In your config.php you have accidentally typed a / instead of a .

/web/htdocs/www/learnholistically.it/home/moodle should be
/web/htdocs/www.learnholistically.it/home/moodle

Same error in dirroot and dataroot.

P.S. Moodle 1.0.9 will be released tomorrow - if you can wait I highly recommend using that instead of 1.0.8.1

I just updated the tutorial, but it has some steps missing in the middle you could fill in.

Anyhow, go to: http://localhost/mysql/

Hi,

Two ideas that may help:

1) You can install PHP under IIS instead of Apache, if that helps. You still need to install MySQL though.

2) Otherwise, try EasyPHP: http://moodle.org/wiki/index.php/StepByStepInstallMoodleOnWindows