Ryanz Posted February 17, 2008 Share Posted February 17, 2008 Hi, I need some help with a script to do multiple choice questions I started with a script for a simple series of questions which worked that if you got the question wrong then you had to go back to the beginning and start again I then wanted to choose the questions at random from the selection using arrays so that the questions then come up in a different order each time. This is the script here. I have removed the array for the minute so that the script works Here is the question page: <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd"> <html> <head> <title>Quiz</title> </head> <body> <h1>Q<?php $question = $_POST['question']; echo $question; ?> </h1><br><b>What is the name of the gland below the adrenal glands?</b><br><br> <form method="post" action="answer.php"> <input type="radio" name="answer" value="1" />Thyroid<br> <input type="radio" name="answer" value="2" />pituitary<br> <input type="radio" name="answer" value="3" />pancreas<br> <input type="radio" name="answer" value="4" />ovary<br> <input type="radio" name="answer" value="5" />testis<br> <input type="hidden" name="correct" value="3" /> <input type="hidden" name="question" value=" <?php echo $question; ?>" /> <input type="Submit" name="submit" value="Submit" /> </form> </body> </html> Here is the page which processes the values sent from the question page ... <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd"> <html> <head> <title>Quiz</title> </head> <body> <?php $answer = $_POST['answer']; $correct = $_POST['correct']; $question = $_POST['question']; $questions = 28; //number of questions $nextq = rand(1,$questions); $nextqn = $question + 1; $newarray = array_splice($arr, array_search($nextq, $arr), 1); if($answer == $correct) echo "<font color=green>CORRECT</font><br><form action=bq" . $nextq . ".php method=post> <input type=hidden name=question value=" . $nextqn . "> <input type=submit name=Next value='Next Question'></form>"; else echo "INCORRECT<br><a href=index.php>Try again ...</a>"; ?> </body> </html> see it posted at my site http://www.zimph.com/edu The next stage is where I am stuck. I want to not repeat the same question ie to take it the question out of the array so that it only comes up once in any sequence of questions. The idea is that it becomes a game to see how many questions you get right before you get the question wrong a bit like the impossible quiz if you know that. Someone from another forum gave me this script which takes the question out of the array but this is all on one page whereas I use mutiple pages. I am not clear how to integrate the two scripts to get what I want. Can you give me any direction on what to do next. Thanks for all the help I have already recieved, I have still not found an answer though! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sasa Posted February 17, 2008 Share Posted February 17, 2008 try <?php session_start(); if (isset($_SESSION['q']) and count($_SESSION['q']) > 0) $q = $_SESSION['q']; else $q = range(1, 28); ?> <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd"> <html> <head> <title>Quiz</title> </head> <body> <?php $answer = $_POST['answer']; $correct = $_POST['correct']; $question = $_POST['question']; $questions = 28; //number of questions $nq = array_rand($q,1); $nextq = $q[$nq]; //rand(1,$questions); unset($q[$nq]); $_SESSION['q'] = $q; $nextqn = $question + 1; //$newarray = array_splice($arr, array_search($nextq, $arr), 1); if($answer == $correct) echo "<font color=green>CORRECT</font><br><form action=bq" . $nextq . ".php method=post> <input type=hidden name=question value=" . $nextqn . "> <input type=submit name=Next value='Next Question'></form>"; else echo "INCORRECT<br><a href=index.php>Try again ...</a>"; ?> </body> </html> Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ryanz Posted February 20, 2008 Author Share Posted February 20, 2008 try <?php session_start(); if (isset($_SESSION['q']) and count($_SESSION['q']) > 0) $q = $_SESSION['q']; else $q = range(1, 28); ?> <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd"> <html> <head> <title>Quiz</title> </head> <body> <?php $answer = $_POST['answer']; $correct = $_POST['correct']; $question = $_POST['question']; $questions = 28; //number of questions $nq = array_rand($q,1); $nextq = $q[$nq]; //rand(1,$questions); unset($q[$nq]); $_SESSION['q'] = $q; $nextqn = $question + 1; //$newarray = array_splice($arr, array_search($nextq, $arr), 1); if($answer == $correct) echo "<font color=green>CORRECT</font><br><form action=bq" . $nextq . ".php method=post> <input type=hidden name=question value=" . $nextqn . "> <input type=submit name=Next value='Next Question'></form>"; else echo "INCORRECT<br><a href=index.php>Try again ...</a>"; ?> </body> </html> Thanks for the reply, it seems to be just what I need, although I can't get it to work! It's currently on the site: zimph.com/edu ... I used the exact script you gave me, and I can't see what is wrong with it, although it still doesn't seem to work ... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sasa Posted February 21, 2008 Share Posted February 21, 2008 what is wrong Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ryanz Posted February 21, 2008 Author Share Posted February 21, 2008 what is wrong Basiaclly the questions appeared randomly as usual ... but they still repeated themselves without running through all the questions ... The php all seemed to run ... just not in the right way ... I can't see why it shouldn't work ...? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Ryanz Posted February 23, 2008 Author Share Posted February 23, 2008 are you have cookies enabled in your browser Hey I have it working now! ... but there is one more thing I want to add, and for some reason I'm unable to :S For the first question I want to create the array using your script, but then when all the questions have finished I wanted the script to say complete. I changed the else statment when checking for the session variable, so that if there is no array present, "Complete" would be echoed <?php session_start(); if (isset($_SESSION['q']) and count($_SESSION['q']) > 0) $q = $_SESSION['q']; ?> <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd"> <html> <head> <title>Quiz</title> </head> <body> <?php else echo "Complete"; $answer = $_POST['answer']; $correct = $_POST['correct']; $question = $_POST['question']; $questions = 5; //number of questions $nq = array_rand($q,1); $nextq = $q[$nq]; //rand(1,$questions); unset($q[$nq]); $_SESSION['q'] = $q; $nextqn = $question + 1; //$newarray = array_splice($arr, array_search($nextq, $arr), 1); if($answer == $correct) echo "<font color=green>CORRECT</font><br><form action=bq" . $nextq . ".php method=post> <input type=hidden name=question value=" . $nextqn . "> <input type=submit name=Next value='Next Question'></form>"; else echo "INCORRECT<br><a href=index.php>Try again ...</a>"; ?> </body> </html> Could you tell me where I'm going wrong? I create the $q variable in an answer1.php which comes after the first question. The answer1.php script is identical to yours ... and the answer.php script that comes after each question other than the first has the same code as the above ... It would be awesome if you could help! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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