complicated queries to generate the XML, then asking CF to parse. In
most quiz applications a random display and question pool is common so
caching the xml wouldn't be beneficial either.
What am I missing here?
Adam Wayne Lehman
Web Systems Developer
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
Distance Education Division
-----Original Message-----
From: Jeremy Brodie [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, December 19, 2003 12:56 PM
To: CF-Talk
Subject: Re:Quiz builder?
Joe,
If you're looking to build one from sratch you might want to take a look
at using XML to send and retieve information from the database.
Christopher Lomvardias has a good presentation on this subject at
http://www.cfug-md.org/talks/mdcfug_2003December.ppt. Its a bit heavy on
the database site, however, doing it this way will save a lot of time
building the application.
He does a great job explaining how this would work for a situation such
as yours. (and doing it this way will save a tremendous amount of code--
doing it without XML would involve complicated querries and quite a bit
of CF logic to display the page properly!)
Bascially, the hard part of creating any quiz is generating the
checkboxes, radio button and the select lists -- and generating XML is a
clean fast way of moving this information in and out of the database,
espcally if you have 20-30 questions in your quiz. On the creation side,
you might want to look at using a bit of _javascript_ to add the elements
you'll need to add checkboxes, select lists and radio buttons.
Jeremy Brodie
Intelix
an Edgewater Technology Solutions Company
web: http://www.edgewater.com
phone:(703) 815-2500
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>I've been looking for a nice quiz/test builder for an online course
system
>i'm working on and can't seem to find one, at least not one for
ColdFusion.
>Anyone come across anything like this? I'd rather buy some open code
than
>write it myself, too many other things to work on right now. Most of
what i
>see out there are poll generators though, nothing for quizzes or tests.
>
>If you know where i can find it, or would like to sell what you've
made,
>please contact me. Thanks!!! ... .joe
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