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 I am building a Quiz Engine.

I have a lot of topics in which user can take the quiz.

Remember each topic has thousands of questions.

But I want 25 random questions in each attempt of user.

All is right till Now. But the Question Is.

When the user will start the quiz.

1) I need 25 random questions. One way to implement is we insert 25 questions Id in separate table or use sessions. What is the better solution?

2) I need to save the right or wrong answers which user do. And in the end check this and submit the quiz result. But where we save that results temporarilly eithere in database table or session or any thing else. What is the better solution?

Hi,

Just a suggestion. I would save the 25 questions in a table with the users ID. You can save the answers in the same table as a bit for right or wrong and if its muliple choice you can save their choice in the same table with the answerID for the answer they chose.

Richard

Hi,
my suggestion is to use session..
it is more easy to implement..

1. if more than 100 users are connected u will get very big table
   if the user goes partial way storing data is a waste..(ie u have to
   delete unwanted data peridically)
2. if u have requirement, allowing users in multiple sessions to complete
   25 questions, u must use database
3. each fetch to db will cause some minimum time on server side
   so if u plan a faster system, u have to consider this also..

regds
Happy programming.


jomet.