Hello - I'm new here, and very much a beginner, so please excuse me. ;)

I am making a quiz on one of my websites, and I want it to be scored with PHP.
All I want is to say what the correct answer is, and if they got that correct answer, add 1 to the score.
So, something like
if $name = "john" [ however you would say add 1 ] ..
else [ add nothing ].

Then I want the total printed out on the page.

An added bonus would be to have it write the top score to a text file, printing that on the page and overwriting it if someone beats that top score.

Any help would be MUCH appreciated - this thing is getting nowhere with just my miniscule knowledge.

Let's suppose you keep all the correct answers in an array. The array is indexed by the name of the input field.

Also, we'll suppose you keep the current high score in "highscore.dat".


<?php
$high_score_file = "highscore.dat";

$answers = array('name' => 'john', ...);

$score = 0;


$high_score = (int) file_get_contents($high_score_file);

echo "The current high score is {$high_score}.\n";

// Check each answer in the $answers array with the
// value submitted by the user.
foreach($answers as $input_field => $answer)
{
    if (isset($_POST[$input_field]) &&
        ($_POST['input_field'] == $answer))
    {
        ++$score;
    }
}

// Print total score to user.
echo "Your score is {$score}.\n";

if ($score > $high_score)
{
    echo "You set a new high score!\n";

    // write new high score to file:
    $fp = fopen($high_score_file, 'w');
    if ($fp)
    {
        fwrite($fp, "{$score}");
    }
}

?>


Take care,

Nik
http://www.bigaction.org/

thank you so much! The script works, and I managed to put in a few extras for fun. :)