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I have been attempting to put together a quiz website. (see below)

www.clinicalillustration.com

I am really trying to figure out if there is a way of adding statistics such as number of correct answers etc so that it shows up at the end. Does anyone know a way to do this.
(The questions are purely for test purposes at this stage)
thanks
matt


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You’re going to need some kind of database to do this, and that usually means PHP and MySQL. I did a poll site many years ago as either the first or second project I tried while learning to program. It was a sheer vertical cliff of a learning curve, but that was because I was trying to learn everything at once, and just getting PHP to run on Rhapsody (the precursor to Mac OS X, basically NeXTStep dressed up to look like OS 9) was enough of a challenge… You kids don’t know how easy you have it today…

I would say that us you have any sort of scripting experience, and you have some time to invest, you’ll find it a great project to learn from.

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You kids don’t know how easy you have it today…

Heh. Yellow box, blue box… :slight_smile:

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thanks for that
I dont have any experience with scripting or coding, i will have a look into it
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On 21 December 2011 22:03, matb email@hidden wrote:

I have been attempting to put together a quiz website. (see below)

www.clinicalillustration.com

I am really trying to figure out if there is a way of adding statistics such as number of correct answers etc so that it shows up at the end. Does anyone know a way to do this.
(The questions are purely for test purposes at this stage)

Might be simpler to adapt one of these:

Roger

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You know, there’s a sort of chicken-or-egg problem there. Adapting someone else’s code when you don’t have any experience with code per se can be a risky and error-prone path. You tend to look at things the way someone wrote them, try to extrapolate meaning from their choices, and get lost pretty quickly. A gentle “fat book” intro to this would be PHP and MySQL Web Development by Luke Welling and Laura Thomson. They start from first principles and work up from there in easy steps. It’s the book I wish I had read first. Trying to reverse-engineer someone else’s code can lead to what’s referred to as "cargo cult’ programming. (If I make a radio out of coconuts and old packing crates, maybe the Army men will come back in their shiny silver bird…) You end up making code that looks like it should work, but you’re not sure why it will or why it doesn’t.

Walter

On Dec 23, 2011, at 7:45 AM, Roger Houghton wrote:

Might be simpler to adapt one of these:


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Which is the book I bought years ago from Walt’s recommendation. Well worth the time reading and investment.

David

On 23 Dec 2011, at 14:18, Walter Lee Davis email@hidden wrote:

A gentle “fat book” intro to this would be PHP and MySQL Web Development by Luke Welling and Laura Thomson. They start from first principles and work up from there in easy steps. It’s the book I wish I had read first.


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