2 seconds of thinking says you MIGHT be able to use the meta refresh option
just tell it to redirect to the submit page after x seconds, maybe sending a
cookie along that says when they *got* the page, so you know they'r enot
cheating.
not sure if this is an adequate solution, but it's a fairly simple one to
implement
regards,
Jos
> Dear all:
>
> I'm doing my first program with Perl and my knowledge is quite limited but
> I'm feeding my little Llama...(still cannot understand the quiz example
done
> by Randal in his column...)
>
> My program does a multiple question quiz with multiple options valid for
each
> question, to be running under UNIX. I expect to test about 30 students
most
> probably at different times.
>
> Using CGI.pm I have this (all the time same test.cgi):
>
> first access you have a form that asks your name and email, when you click
on
> submit CGI.pm passes the name + email as hidden fields to the real test,
> about 20 checkboxes groups, each with 4 alternatives...you fill and click
> again to submit and the program compares with the correct results,
displays
> the results and their evaluation, email copies to the person and to me,
and
> writes to a log in the server.
>
> QUESTION: I would like to put a timer to the form with the questions, that
is
> a counter down and if time is over it will submit itself. I got a
Javascript
> that does that, but
>
> 1) How can I integrate this in my program. It seems CGI.pm doesn't allow
this
> kind of scripts for the header, most examples are for form validation...
>
> 2) Is it possible a timer like this with Perl? Then I won't have problems
if
> Javascript is disabled...
>
>
> Thanks for your suggestions,
>
> Yours
>
> Georg Fendt
>
> Javascript Timer:
>
> <HEAD>
> <SCRIPT LANGUAGE="JavaScript">
> <!--
> finished = false;
> time = 60;
> function startgrace() {
> if(30 > 0) {
> alert("This test has a time limit of 60 seconds. You may
> start the test now.");
> setTimeout("timer()", 1000);
> }
> }
> function timer() {
> time--;
> window.status = time + " seconds remaining.";
> if(time > 0) {
> setTimeout("timer()", 1000);
> } else {
> finished = true;
> alert("Your time is up! Please let your test submit
> automatically. If nothing happens after 10 seconds, click the Submit
button
> at the bottom of this page.");
> document.test.submitbutton.click();
> }
> }
>
> function check_finished() {
> if(finished) {
> alert("Your time has already finished. Please scroll to the
> bottom of the test and click \"Submit test\" immediately. Do not attempt
to
> change any answers.");
> return false;
> }
> return true;
> }
> file://-->
> </SCRIPT>
>
> </HEAD>
>
> <BODY onLoad="startgrace()">
>
>
>
>
>
>
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