Building a Simple Quiz in PHP

Building a simple quiz is quite easy, and could be used on your website anywhere. I figured it out and found it to be very simple and easy to do.

All the steps you need to do is to create a simple form and after that a PHP Script that will calculate the answers of the specific question.

I have followed some simple steps, created a form as below.

Next step I followed is that I have simply action my form with another file “quiz_result.php”

My file will elaborate all the results and then display the correct answers on the next page.

So first of all created a form with following qualities.

<form action="quiz_result.php" method="post" id="quiz">

……..Form Here……..

</form>

Next to that I have created a simple single question with four multiple choice, I have preferred radio buttons so that user can select only single option.

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<h3>HTML Stands for...</h3>

<div>

<input type="radio" name="question-1-answers" id="question-1-answers-A" value="A" />

<label for="question-1-answers-A">A) Hypertext Markup Language </label>

</div>

<div>

<input type="radio" name="question-1-answers" id="question-1-answers-B" value="B" />

<label for="question-1-answers-B">B) Hypertext Markup</label>

</div>

<div>

<input type="radio" name="question-1-answers" id="question-1-answers-C" value="C" />

<label for="question-1-answers-C">C) Hypertext Programming</label>

</div>

<div>

<input type="radio" name="question-1-answers" id="question-1-answers-D" value="D" />

<label for="question-1-answers-D">D) None of the above</label>

</div>



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At the end of this form before the ending of </form> I have placed a button that will let me redirect to the next page to display the results.

<input type="submit" value="Submit Quiz" />

And main thing was my PHP Script file “quiz_result.php”.

$answer1 = $_POST['question-1-answers'];

$answer2 = $_POST['question-2-answers'];

$answer3 = $_POST['question-3-answers'];

$answer4 = $_POST['question-4-answers'];

$answer5 = $_POST['question-5-answers'];



$totalCorrect = 0;

if ($answer1 == "B") { $totalCorrect++; }

if ($answer2 == "A") { $totalCorrect++; }

if ($answer3 == "C") { $totalCorrect++; }

if ($answer4 == "D") { $totalCorrect++; }

if ($answer5) { $totalCorrect++; }

echo "<div id='results'>$totalCorrect / 5 correct</div>";