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Jul 15.2007

I’ve found a pretty cool script called QuizOMatic ’76.

I’ve installed it and everything works quite well except the “resuts” (reporting) page.
Unfortunately, I’m not a programmer so I don’t know enough about what I’m looking at to fix it. I am a HS math teacher and could really benefit from getting this to work properly. If someone could give me some advise, I would be eternally grateful.

The original script can be seen and downloaded here:
[url]http://www.flashlightbrown.com/quizomatic76/[/url]

A wonderful (working) example of this script can be seen at:
[url]http://www.pucemoose.com/quizomatic/NES_easy_quiz.htm?[/url]

The results of everyone whose taken this quiz can be viewed on the “results.php” page:
[url]http://www.pucemoose.com/quizomatic/results.php[/url]
Here you can select a quiz (my implementation shows the three quizzes I have set up).

When you click on one of the quizzes (above), then it gives the results, with a graph. My implementation will not do this.

One of my quizzes can be seen at:
[url]http://robertfant.com/Quiz/quizomati…le_test_01.htm[/url]

A visitor can take this quiz, get their score, etc.
But, when I go to the “results.php” it shows all the quizzes but it will not show any of the data.
[url]http://robertfant.com/Quiz/quizomatic76/results.php[/url]

Again, if someone could help with this, I would appreciate it and you would be helping a LOT of teachers.

Thanks in advance for your time and effort,
Robert
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@dudhiJul 16.2007 — so how can u tell if everything is working fine ? When I was looking in the source code for ur website, it looked like it was going to this link "?testname=Quiz1".

Give a little more details about what you did.. if you were able to setup the mysql database as mentioned in the script.
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@rfantauthorJul 16.2007 — Hi dudhi,

Thanks for taking the time to look at this, sorry about the broken link above, not sure how that happened.

Here's a couple of links to quizzes that should work OK.

http://robertfant.com/Quiz/quizomatic76/example_test_01.htm

This one has jsMath symbols embedded but should work.

http://robertfant.com/Quiz/quizomatic76/example_test_02.htm

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How can I tell that everything is working fine?

Really, that is an assumption on my part. I assumed that the "results.php" page was going to the database and getting a list of all the quizzes to list on the page. Thus I am assuming that the database connection is being made properly. I know that is a lot of "assuming" on my part, but as a non-programmer, I am sometimes at the mercy of this type of guess work.

What other info can I give that will help you, help me?

I really do appreciate your effort.

Like I said, if I can get this going, it will be a tremendous help to a lot of teachers.

Thank you,

Robert
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@dudhiJul 18.2007 — K, finally I was able to find what might have been causing it.

open results.php in a notepad and right after this line

$db = Open_Database ($server, $user, $password, $database);

add these three lines

$first = ($_SERVER["REQUEST_URI"]);

$value = explode("=",$first);

$testname = ($value['1']);

From this atleast you will get the results and will get it going. The graph wasn't working for me right now-- It may or may not work for me right now, but I might be able to get a better answer for that sometime this week. But for now you can get this going by using this.

I will update with a better solution to this problem and the graph sometime soon.
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@rfantauthorJul 18.2007 — Wow, it is working very well.

In the results bar graph, two of the bars are being drawn below the x-axis instead of above (very interesting). Is this what you meant by "the graph not working"?

Dudhi, you have my complete gratitude. I am very appreciative of your efforts. I have been trying to do something like this for a long, long time.

I will be sharing this script with all my teacher colleagues, giving you much credit.

Thank you a million times over,

Robert
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