Re: [Phptest-users] modifications to phptest

[Kathleen Ferraro]

Thanks, Brandon. I forgot to note that I don't plan to delete
questions or answers, Instead I intend to add a status field with
possible values active/inactive. That way the question would
not show up on a test but its data would be displayed in users'
results. I would also add a question_sequence field to the question
table. This would be distinct from the question_id field, so that If 
some
questions are deleted or added or if the order of required questions
changes, there won't be gaps, and questions won't be out of order.
Let me know if you see any problems with that. Thanks very
much for the response, and for phptest. --Kathie

On Sep 20, 2004, at 12:30 AM, Brandon wrote:

> 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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