Shrinking quiz options

sirgoran

I'm working on a game for my nephew (3) where I show him a picture and give him 5 or 6 options for answers. Simple enough. But at the moment it only says you're correct or you're wrong. I'd like to give him the chance to make another guess but remove the option he already guessed.

Example:

1, 2, 3(selected), 4, 5, 6
Next round.

1, 2, 4, 5(selected), 6

The current game uses a Mysql database to store the following:
Game table:
question_id, question_text.
Options table:
question_id, option_id, option_text, counter

Has anyone ever run into something similar?

Thanks,

Steve

nashirak

Mabye you have some file like checkAnswer.php and it takes in all the fields pluss a hiddent number (default is 1)

... check answer ...
.... if wrong ...
if($hidden) { // if this is the 1st guess

$hidden = 0;
header("Location backPage?$hidden");
}
else
{
Go onto next page
}
Something Like that?

Hope that helps!

sirgoran

Not exactly.

I'm looking to allow guesses until there are only two options left.
I can't "hard code" the pages since I'd like to use the same pages for a growing number of games. So it needs to be dynamic. I can parse the options to see if it's been chosen, but it's removing the chosen option where I get stuck.

How to build a function that will check for:
Total options, compare that to "clicked" options, and then only display the options that haven't been "clicked."

Steve

khaine

You could always use a session to store the selected choices. something like

<? session_start();
// reset the answers if not been here before or if the new flag is set.
if ( !isset($gone) || $new == 1 )
{
session_register('gone');
session_register('left');
session_register('new');
$gone=array(0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0);
$left=5;
$new=0;
}
?>

<? if ( $action != "Y" ) { ?>
<FORM action="<? echo $PHP_SELF; ?>" method="post">

Select your option.

</FORM>
<?
}
else
{

$ans=1;

if ( $ans == $picked )
{
    session_unregister($gone); 
    session_unregister($left); 
    session_destroy();

    unset($gone);
    unset($left);

    header("location: ".$PHP_SELF);
    exit;
}
else
{
    unset($action);
    $gone[$picked]=1;
    $left--;
    if ( $left < 3 )
    {
        echo "Only 2 answers left";
        $new=1;
    }
    header("location: ".$PHP_SELF);
    exit;
}

}
?>

</BODY>

The above code is very basic but it does what I understand that you want.

Mark.