Quiz using MySql

Ken Fair has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Hello Group First time here was invited by someone at cgi101.com. I am trying to get a grasp on writing a simple quiz on the web. I figure I will start with President's birthdays. The President table can be retrieved from the Mysql samp_db database by Dubois. I have a user table, Question table, and a Answer table. What I need now is a book or tutorial on how to put it togethor. Is there such a thing out there???? I would like to learn how to do this. I think I can grasp it if I can have something to follow. Thanks for any and all help in this matter. Ken Fair wmp@mpinet.net

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Re: Quiz using MySql by buckaduck (Chaplain) on Oct 23, 2001 at 23:31 UTC
merlyn has of course written a two-part article about this, beginning here Update: Didn't I just say this yesterday? buckaduck	[reply]
Re: Re: Quiz using MySql by Ken Fair (Initiate) on Oct 24, 2001 at 03:15 UTC
Hello I do not think so, The only suggestion I received was go buy a book. Which I am ging to do now. If something has already been done and somebody had an explantion that would be great. However, The book is on its way from Amazon. Maybe I can have my quiz up by xmas. Sorry if I asked you the question the second time. Ken Fair	[reply]
Re: Re: Re: Quiz using MySql by demerphq (Chancellor) on Oct 24, 2001 at 03:43 UTC
Hi Ken. It looked to me like that article had the framework for a quiz scenario. Now what of it didn't you like or understand? Show us some code or ideas or specific questions and we'll be glad to help. Yves -- You are not ready to use symrefs unless you already know why they are bad. -- tadmc (CLPM)	[reply]
Re: Re: Quiz using MySql by TStanley (Canon) on Oct 24, 2001 at 13:58 UTC
merlyn posted links to both articles in that series, as a response to this post of mine. TStanley -------- There's an infinite number of monkeys outside who want to talk to us about this script for Hamlet they've worked out -- Douglas Adams/Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy	[reply]
Re: Quiz using MySql by ralphie (Friar) on Oct 24, 2001 at 03:07 UTC
if i'm not mistaken (and i might be) i believe there was an article in the perl journal about managing quizzes a few years ago. you might go here and "leaf" thgrough back issues. in any event, you'll find it an excellent resource on using perl to do real stuff.	[reply]