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Racer X
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03/28/11 03:31 AM (14 years ago)

three quiz app questions

Hi folks, need some advice: 1. How many total questions can I input to a quiz? Is there an upper limit? I know I can set the number of questions for each quiz. But I am wondering how many questions I am allowed to create in a single quiz for the user to pull from? I want to randomize and keep the question bank very large so the user wont get many repeats. I dont want to start fat fingering 1000 questions an end up maxing out at a low number. Instead I will use my own website if I have to...but I prefer not to. 2. If I enter quiz questions into buzztouch, are the questions part of the code I download or are they stored and pulled from a buzztouch site? 3. Based on the answers to 1 and 2, it may be better to use my own site. Can anyone give me a 101 overview on how to set up questions on my own website for a quiz to pull from? I have a website, but I am wondering if I should use SQL and more specifically need to know about passwords. For example, can a quiz app log into my site to pull my questions or does my site have to be unsecure in order for the app to work? My preference is for my data to be somewhat secure with a password, but if it cant be secure then I will enter each questions individually into buzztouch. Any advice is much appreciated.
 
David @ buzztouch
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03/28/11 07:40 AM (14 years ago)
1) There is no built in limit to the number of questions you can enter in the control panel. 2) All the questions are includes in the download. This is why it's not a good idea to use hundreds of thousands of questions from the control panel. When you do this you're aksing the phone to 'read and remember them all' which is super-taxing on a small device. Think 'low memory' and asking it to parse and remember 1000 questions makes zero design sense. 3) The best answer will depend on whether you know server-side programming, like .PHP. If you do, for sure toss them in a database and pull them out as-needed for each quiz. If you don't, ceate a text file for each quiz, put it on your server. Enter the dataURL in the box for each quiz pointing to it's own text file. Secure, not really. However, I doubt your quiz questions are every going to be found by anyone if you give them obscure file names. I would also put them in a directory that has a robots.txt file that prevents google and other search engines from indexing your quiz files. I'm not sure how else to better explain it. You've been asking interesting and useful quiz related questions for awhile but seem to end up with the same design challenge. Maybe contact your webmaster? I'm 100% sure you could pull this off too but you'll need to bet a better understanding of how the app pulls the data from the URL and how you can manipulate the URL to change the output from your server (.php).
 
Racer X
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03/28/11 09:12 AM (14 years ago)
Dave, I really appreciate your guidence. Thank You. Now I know what direction to start from, and I do understand everything you've presented. You've saved me a lot of time and effort. Thanks again, you guys are the best!
 

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