help with php and forms

scp

I've created a online quiz using radio buttons and am using php to process it. I'm having problems scoring the quiz. I'm using if statements to compare the values of the radio buttons with the correct answers, then adding to a $score variable when the user gets the answer correct, but it stops adding to it after it gets to 3. Can someone tell me why, or tell me a better way to work out the score for each respondant?

jowatkins

OK, this might be a bit simplistic and messy, but here goes:

if (q1=="correct")
{
   q1=1;
}
if (q2=="correct")
{
   q2=1;
}

etc...

and then...

static $score=0;
$questions = array ("q1", "q2",....)
foreach ($questions as $item)
{
  $score = $score+$item;
}

PhaZZed

Personally I would use a database to store all the questions and have a column for score, and just keep adding to that column, reset once finished, etc.

mysql is excellent, solves lots of problems and saves u stax of time.

Give it a bash!

CoreyM

You could do this with an array a couple different ways.

You could add the value of "1" to an array for each correct answer and the either just "count" the length of the array.

$score = count ($array);

So each time you add to the array you increase the lenght of the array.

Or you could add "1", "2" or say "5" to the array and award higher values for correct answers and then at the end "Sum" the arrary.

$score = sum($array);

Good Luck

preet_harman83

just see my code pal im doing it with postgresql,im scoring for questions .if qus has one right ans its showing radio buttona snas if it had more than one right ans its showing checkbox. u fill find my code in forum newbies with heading.

Scoring my correct answers and displaying the total reult ...help need infinding error

hoe this will help u.

preet_harman83

try this pal

while ($row = pg_fetch_array($result)) {

get ALL radio questions from database

$question = 'q'.$row[0];
$myAnswer = 0;
if(isset($POST[$question])) {
$query="select * from answers where question=".$row[0]." and correct='1'";
$result = pg_query($connection, $query);
$row = pg_fetch_array($result);
if($POST[$question] == $row['answer']) {
$myAnswer = 4;
} else {
$myAnswer = -1;
}
$myTest += $myAnswer;
}
}