I was perusing FeedBurner’s “101 FeedFlares For a Better Tomorrow” list and saw that the “Survey” category was unattempted.

JotForm is a (free for now) online form builder that lets you build your own survey, contact form, or whatever. Perfect.

I put together a simple PHP generator which (with a couple of RESTful parameters) will create a customized FeedFlare for anyone who wants to add a JotForm survey FeedFlare link to their FeedBurner feed:

http://flare.markwoodman.com/jotform.php

The generator is intended for people not comfy crufting together a URL with properly escaped ASCII. You simply enter the link text you want (”Survey!” or “Talk Back” or “Eat Much?” and the JotForm form id, and it will build the URL for you.

The “demo” parameter will output a sample XML that fits the FeedFlare structure: http://flare.markwoodman.com/jotform.php?demo=true.

It’s fun to see how easy Immediate Actions can be these days. I hope some people get good use out of this one.

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