vBQuiz 1.0

vBQuiz 1.0

NOTE: all functionality-impairing bugs have been fixed. The attached files should work well on just about any PHP installation.

What's it do?
It allows you to setup a quiz center on your boards quickly and easily. This quiz center is FULLY templated, integrated with vBulletin, and has an advanced Admin script for managing the quizzes, categories, and questions. Here's an example: Movie Forums - Quizzes

A few of its features...

• Tracks all results and displays high scores.
• Upon completion, users are given a total quiz breakdown of the quiz, showing them how they fared on each question, and, on the ones they missed, showing them the correct answer.
• Upon completion, users are shown a graphical bar representing their score, and a graphical bar representing the average score for the quiz. They are also emailed their information.
• Main quiz page calculates and displays the easiest and most difficult quizzes automatically.
• Quizzes can be split up into categories.
• Quizzes can be approved or disapproved easily to add/remove them from public view/use.
• Full integration with the Who's Online? page...IE: "Viewing Quizzes" or "Viewing So and So Quiz" and even "Taking So and So Quiz"

Admin Abilities:

• Disallow multiple quiz takings.
• Toggle to disinclude quiz results coming from the author of the quiz.
• Change the display order of the answers to each question.
• Add multiple questions and answers at once (no limit).

Here are some screenshots:

• Main Quiz Page
• Quiz Display
• Quiz Category Display
• Quiz Question Display
• Quiz Results Page
• ADMIN: Quiz Options/Navigation
• ADMIN: Add Quiz
• ADMIN: Add Questions
• ADMIN: Delete Quiz
• ADMIN: Modify Question
• ADMIN: Quiz Settings

That's it! Don't forget, however, to read ALL of the instructions.txt file in the enclosed vbquiz.zip file. It'll help guard against some common bugs.

Files Enclosed (in vbquiz.zip)
- instructions.txt (read it!)
- quiz.php (upload to main forum dir)
- admin_quiz.php (upload to admin dir)
- install_quiz.php (upload to admin dir and then run)

Enjoy!

Also: a HUGE, HUGE, HUGE thanks to GamerForums for beta testing this hack for me. His help was completely invaluable and surely saved me a lot of work in the long run. Thanks!

[Lionel]

Originally posted by Martin64
TWTCommish: how about displaying the most recently added Quiz from the forum home, as well as high scores? Is that possible? Right now I just have a little text link and it's not very amusing.

I'd like to put it below Currently Active Users at my board. Cheers. :P

The way I did that was to copy quiz.php into quizhome.php and then I had quizhome.php called a renamed template of the main quiz template. I edited that one to my needs. :bunny:

[Martin64]

Originally posted by Lionel


The way I did that was to copy quiz.php into quizhome.php and then I had quizhome.php called a renamed template of the main quiz template. I edited that one to my needs. :bunny:

It would be nice with some exact instructions, I'm not that great at this. :P

[Pilot]

Can you fix it so the author user is entered as their username and not their user number?

How can I extract a list of high scores or a leader table for display on my home page (or forum index)?

What's the best way to integrate this into a VB site?

[TWTCommish]

Can you fix it so the author user is entered as their username and not their user number?

I could...but I'd rather not bother unless some others are interested.

How can I extract a list of high scores or a leader table for display on my home page (or forum index)?

That depends on how you want it to display.

What's the best way to integrate this into a VB site?

I'm afraid that's far too subjective to answer. Personally I just link to the file right now.

[bandersen]

I upgraded to 2.2.6 and lost the navbar / admin panel for quizzes. Is it the admin/index.php part of the installation I need to do again?
Anyone else found more missing after an upgrade?

[TWTCommish]

/admin/index.php should be the only part you need to re-edit.

[Boofo]

I think an option to use the username AND the id number would be a good addition. Also, a listing on the forum home like Total Quizzes going and maybe the best quiz score with the score and the username might be cool, too. Like they do with Total threads Today and such.

Originally posted by TWTCommish

I could...but I'd rather not bother unless some others are interested.


That depends on how you want it to display.

[Rose]

I apologize if this problem has been posted, I tried sorting through twenty pages before giving up. *lol*


I seem to have everything okay, I haven't quite figured out the quizzes, but I haven't tried yet, either.

My problem is my templates. I have three styles. The 'quiz' templates were jsut added to the default. Around page 6 or so, a fix was made by TWT for this by running the first page of the script with the templatesetid number added to add the templates to the other styles.

Now that they are all added, my templates look....weird. When I go to temlpates, and click on "show all templates", instead of the normal list I get this -

(see attached)


Any suggestions? I'd really like to see my templates again, as this way is confusing. All the links that say "change original" next to a bullet are empty. :s However, nothing seems to be messed up on teh board, so that is good.

[TWTCommish]

I've had similar problems, but long before the quiz hack...I think this may be due to the imcompatibility error pre 2.2.6 versions of vB have with recent versions of PHP. Did your host upgrade their PHP installation recently?

[bandersen]

Originally posted by TWTCommish
/admin/index.php should be the only part you need to re-edit.

OK done and working just fine - for all hacks added ex. the query hack! Puh....