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   wcamp
   

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   I'm working on a quiz page using PHP with which I'm not very familiar. The current page features with question 6. I cannot get that question's correct answer to be declared as correct.

   Here's the PHP form action markup:
   . . .
   // Question 6
   $questionnumber = "6"; // What question number is this?
   $nextquestion = $questionnumber + 1;
   if ( $_GET[ 'question' ] == $questionnumber ) {

   $answer = $_POST[ 'answer' ]; // Gets the submitted answer
   $correctanswer = "a false god of the Philistines"; // The correct answer for the previous question

   // Here you can edit the form, question and answers
   $question = 'Samuel was displeased when the people of Israel demanded of him, “Give us a king to lead us.” So Samuel prayed to the Lord who told him (8:7):';
   $form = '
   <form action="?question=' . $nextquestion . '" method="post">
   ' . $question . '<br><br>
   <input type="radio" name="answer" id="“Repent: for the kingdom of heaven is at hand.”" value="“Repent: for the kingdom of heaven is at hand.”" /><label for="“Repent: for the kingdom of heaven is at hand.”">“Repent: for the kingdom of heaven is at hand.”</label><br>

   <input type="radio" name="answer" id="“It is not you they have rejected; they have rejected me as their king.”" value="“It is not you they have rejected; they have rejected me as their king.”" /><label for="“It is not you they have rejected; they have rejected me as their king.”">“It is not you they have rejected; they have rejected me as their king.”</label><br>

   <input type="radio" name="answer" id="“Love your enemies, bless them who curse you.”" value="“Love your enemies, bless them who curse you.”" /><label for="“Love your enemies, bless them who curse you.”">“Love your enemies, bless them who curse you.”</label><br>

   <input type="radio" name="answer" id="“Get thee hence, Satan!”" value="“Get thee hence, Satan!”" /><label for="“Get thee hence, Satan!”">“Get thee hence, Satan!”</label><br>
   <br>
   <input type="submit" value="Answer this question" />'; // Do not include </form> here or it won't calculate as-you-go scores . . .
   . . .

   And here's the markup for the correct answer that fits atop the question 7 container:
   . . .
   // Question 7
   $questionnumber = "7"; // What question number is this?
   $nextquestion = $questionnumber + 1;
   if ( $_GET[ 'question' ] == $questionnumber ) {

   $answer = $_POST[ 'answer' ]; // Gets the submitted answer
   $correctanswer = "“It is not you they have rejected; they have rejected me as their king.”"; // The correct answer for the previous question
   . . .

   I've copy/pasted the correct answer from the form — it's the second of four multiple-choice options beginning with "It is not you." — into the "?correctanswer =" field. Alas, I continually clear the cache files yet keep getting an incorrect answer while that answer is correct! I suspect I've entered an PHP syntax error without realizing it. Would you please advise me how to correct my "answer" entry so it'll be declared as correct?

   Here's the PHP page that you'l want to test for yourself:
   https://www.warrencampdesign.com/heartyBoys/quizzes/quiz1Samuel.php?question=6

   Many thanks in advance,

   Warren

   Posted 3 months ago
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   wcamp
   

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   Hello, again:

   I didn’t exactly “fix” the problem. I've removed the ““”s and “””s from the answer field for question 6 and the correct answer was declared as "correct."

   However, there ought to be a way to be able to use those Unicode characters for opening and closing quotation marks in the quizzes’ answers. Does anyone know how to do that in a PHP form action?

   Please note: Now that question 6 declares the correct answer when it should, question 7 presents the same problem, however, the correct answer for that question — the first multiple-choice option — has an apostrophe “s” for which I entered “father’s lost donkeys” and that immediately caused that correct answer to be declared "incorrect." When I remove that Unicode character and enter only “father lost donkeys” (which is grammatically incorrect), the form action gives the “correct answer.” And when I re-enter that “’” character, I’m told that my correct answer is "incorrect."   ( ; - (

   • Do you know exactly what I’m to enter in this “$correctanswer =“ field so that the correct answer will be declared "correct"?

   . . .
   $answer = $_POST[ 'answer' ]; // Gets the submitted answer
   $correctanswer = "his father’s lost donkeys"; // The correct answer for the previous question

   . . .

   I hope one of you can advise me how to correctly enter the answers to questions so that the correct answers will be declared “correct.”

   Many thanks, in advance.

   Warren
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   Posted 3 months ago
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   wcamp
   

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   Hi, all:

   A friend on another forum responded and helped me learn how to properly enter markup on PHP action forms. He explained the problem to me and provided appropriate sample entries. I’ve since rebuilt my quiz site, tested it, and got great results: All the correct answers now receive “correct” declarations. Hoooooooray!

   In summary, I erroneously entered actual text containing Unicode characters inside the “id” and "value” fields, as shown in this previous markup for my quiz’s question 7. . .
   . . .
   <form action="?question=' . $nextquestion . '" method="post">
   ' . $question . '<br><br>
   <input type="radio" name="answer" id="his father’s lost donkeys" value="his father’s lost donkeys" /><label for="his father’s lost donkeys">his father’s lost donkeys</label><br>

   <input type="radio" name="answer" id="the witch of Endor" value="the witch of Endor" /><label for="the witch of Endor">the witch of Endor</label><br>

   <input type="radio" name="answer" id="David, the slayer of tens of thousands" value="David, the slayer of tens of thousands" /><label for="David, the slayer of tens of thousands">David, the slayer of tens of thousands</label><br>

   <input type="radio" name="answer" id="the ark of the covenant of God" value="the ark of the covenant of God" /><label for="the ark of the covenant of God">the ark of the covenant of God</label><br>
   . . .

   Here’s how to safely enter data for the “id” and “value” fields of question 7. . .
   . . .
   <form action="?question=' . $nextquestion . '" method="post">
   ' . $question . '<br><br>
   <input type="radio" name="answer" id="answer7-1" value="answer7-1" /><label for="his father’s lost donkeys">his father’s lost donkeys</label><br>

   <input type="radio" name="answer" id="answer7-2" value="answer7-2" /><label for="the witch of Endor">the witch of Endor</label><br>

   <input type="radio" name="answer" id="answer7-3" value="answer7-3" /><label for="David, the slayer of tens of thousands">David, the slayer of tens of thousands</label><br>

   <input type="radio" name="answer" id="answer7-4" value="answer7-4" /><label for="the ark of the covenant of God">the ark of the covenant of God</label><br>
   . . .

   And for the correct answer for question 7, here’s the previous, problematic markup that I’d used. . .
   . . .
   $answer = $_POST[ 'answer' ]; // Gets the submitted answer
   $correctanswer = "his father’s lost donkeys"; // The correct answer for the previous question
   . . .

   Here’s how to correctly enter the corollary data within the $correctanswer field. . .
   . . .
   $answer = $_POST[ 'answer' ]; // Gets the submitted answer
   $correctanswer = "answer7-1"; // The correct answer for the previous question
   . . .

   The $correctanswer variable should hold the same value that appears in the correct answer’s radio button.

   = = =

   If you’d like to give my “1 Samuel” twenty-five-question quiz a try, here’s its opening page. . .

   http://www.warrencampdesign.com/heartyBoys/quizzes/quiz1Samuel.php

   Posted 3 months ago

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