On 9/19/05, Alan Gauld <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 1. I want to store the results in a mySQL database - I've done > > this > > kind of thing before using PHP - are there any good tutorial > > resources > > for using mysql with python? > > There is a generic DB API howto document and I have a database > topic in my tutor which uses SQLite but the basic principles > are identical you just load a different driver... > > > 2. Today the children asked if they could be timed when they > > complete > > the problem. Is there any way of knowing how long they spent > > completing the task? > > You should be able to store the time of page display and > submission > as hidden fields. Javascript might be the easiest way to do this > using the onLoad event. Then get the difference in times when > they > hit submit and pass the elapsed time as a hidden field for the > CGI > to pick up and display. Alternatively just pass the onLoad time > when submit is called and do the calculations at the CGI, but > then you get network transit and server queuing times added...
Thanks to all for suggestions and link - will look at this and probably come back for more help! Adam -- http://www.monkeez.org PGP key: 0x7111B833 _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
