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Anon

I have a quiz its a basic quiz nothing special. But i want it to check the score after the person takes the quiz, if it is higher than the last place place it will have a pop window were you can enter your name and then it will save your name and score to the .dat file, then another script to call it in the top ten starting with one at the top, i really am not sure how to go about this, so if anyone can give me any help i will greatly appreciate it.

Thanks
-BS

Anon

How do you actually use PHP? I mean,I understand it can be used as a stand-alone,as an apache module or as a CGI.I need to use it as a CGI and just to write web pages.But how do you do either one?I've tried writing a short script and calling it as a CGI,nothing happened.I also tried embedding it in an html page and running it in a browser(with Apache running),again,nothing happened.I came over from windows where you just open a compiler/interpreter like any other application and just start using it.With PHP,I cant get it to do anything except show up in the "wheris" command.I've had better luck with perl.I've only used Linux for two months.Help!

brandonschnell

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brandonschnell

load the .dat file using file(). if the new entry beats the last entry then use javascript prompting for name etc. use sessions to pass the quiz data to prevent the user from screwing with their score.

when the user inputs their name etc, check to verify if the new entry is higher than the last entry. replace the last entry with the new entry. sort the array() by score. save the file back to the .dat file.

brandonschnell

oh yeah. make sure you lock the .dat before any writes.

and you should really be doing this using a database.

Anon

ok i have it to where the script will save the name and score into the .dat file and i can call all of the name and scores back out at the same time, but i dont have a clue on how to only get the top 10 scores out of the dat file and list the in cronilogical order, so if you could help em there it would be apprectiated.

Thanks
-BS