Advice

[Anon]

I'm trying to build a quiz using PHP. I want a set of 10 questions to appear from the database (using a field called "level")

Once the user submits their form, I want their answers to be compared to the correct answer in the database.

If they receive an 80%, their name is added to the list of competitors, along with their score, and they are taken to the next set of questions.

How do I do this? With sessions?

Do I need to create an answer key with if and else statements to get the percentage of answers correct?

I'm at a loss here at how to even begin, but if someone could give me a direction, it would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks for your time,

Mada

[Anon]

can you show all ten questions and multiple choice answers on the one page? eg in columns?

if so then you are processing all the q & a at once so tabulating results should be straightforward.

If you need to manage the q & a between multiple pages then that's a bit more complicated, but perhaps a cookie could be used to store numquestions_answered and num_questions_correct along the way?

[Anon]

Brad,

This is what I'm thinking...

I have it where a user sets up an entry into a database with username, password, and what level they are on (1 by default with hidden field).

They move to the first level, go through it, submit it, somehow it is graded (not sure how yet), a percentage score is given. If 80% or more, their login entry is UPDATED in the user database - with the use of hidden fields, advancing them with:

input = hidden value = \"$level+1\"

Do you think something like this will work?

Mada