Re: [Phptest-users] modifications to phptest

[Brandon]

One suggestion, I wouldn't normalize the answers
table, because if you ever delete a question or change
it's answer, the data in the answers table will be
invalid.

Brandon

--- "Kathleen A. Ferraro" <address@hidden> wrote:

> Hello everyone,
> 
> I've begun some modifications to phptest for a new
> project. If someone 
> else has already made similar
> changes or has a need for a similarly modified
> version and would like 
> to collaborate, please let me know.
> 
> 1. Using the one question at a time option, provide
> feedback after each 
> question is answered.
> Essentially, when they click the question's submit
> button, take them to 
> the view_answers.php
> feedback rather than the view_results.php list.
> 
> 2. In the answer's table, replace the question,
> answer, and 
> user_answers text data with numbers
> corresponding to these fields in the questions
> table.
> 
> 3. Move answer choices from the questions table to a
> separate 
> answer_choices table.
> 
> 4. Create an explanations table linked to the
> answer_choices table so 
> that users get different feedback
> depending on which answer they give.
> 
> 5. Create some media (clips, stills, sounds) tables
> linked to 
> answer_choices.
> 
> I've looked at some other quiz/test programs, both
> standalone 
> applications and quiz components of
> course management systems. Several are structured as
> I describe but I 
> find the phptest code
> to be much more intelligible and, therefore, easier
> to modify than 
> anything else I've looked at.
> 
> Best,
> 
> Kathie
> 
> -------------------------------------------
> Kathleen A. Ferraro
> Information Systems Architect
> University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
> Pittsburgh, PA 15261
> 412.648.1099; address@hidden
> 
> 
> 
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