Quizbaker-PHP

Port of quizbaker to PHP

The original quizbaker was created in classic ASP, using Microsoft SQL Server as a database. This port does not contain all the features yet that you can find in the development branch of quizbaker. See https://github.com/blonkm/quizbaker

These are instructions to install the server side parts

Installation Instructions

Introduction

For this project to work you will need

• Linux or Windows
• Apache server
• MySQL You can use LAMP or WAMPServer

Apache

• Download and install apache, from rpm or download WAMP

MySQL

• Download and install mysql, from rpm on linux, on windows it is included in WAMP

Settings

• add a line to your hosts file (\windows\system32\drivers\etc\hosts or/etc/hosts) as follows

• 127.0.0.1 quizbaker

• download all code from this project using a zip file or a clone and copy it under the site.

• go into the file /DB/config.php and check the settings

• test the site is up on whatever virtual host or localhost you put it: go to (e.g. http://quizbaker)

create the MySQL database

• Open The MySQL command line or a tool like PhpMyAdmin or MySQL Workbench.
• Select the database server
• download the sql script to create the database (src/DB/createDB.sql)
• run the script

test a quiz

• create a quiz using Articulate Quizmaker
• publish in WEB format
• copy all files of this quiz to a folder under your site (e.g. a folder named 'quiz')
• overwrite the quiz.html with the one in the source. You can also use the one in the examples folder
• test the quiz (goto quiz.html in the browser)