I have no idea how to start on my assignment. Some help would be amazing.

[Vauntage]

So, I'm supposed to create a dynamic website, where user can choose quiz questions from 3 sections [geography,history,literature]. After the user finishes a quiz attempt, I will have to do a point calculation. Then the user can be offered to attempt a quiz from another section, do the same section but different questions or exit.

Where I'm stuck at, is this part. For every section should be at least 20 questions of which 10, by random choice, should be displayed to a user in every quiz attempt.

My professor stated that the questions should be stored in a txt file, and the quiz has to be multiple choice.

I have a txt file that has questions and is separated by PHP_EOL, and another txt file that has the options for the questions, also separated by PHP_EOL.

How would I do it such that when I do randomize the question, the options follow the specific question? I was thinking of something along the lines of a pointer, but I don't think that will be possible.

Any and all advice/help will be greatly appreciated.

[MikeRohsoft]

it's possible, but can i ask if it's forced to be more textfiles?
i would write everything in 1 File

<?php
	$line = "Is this a Question?|Yes#No#Maybe|Yes"
	$elemets = explode('|', $line, -1);
	$object = (object) [
		'question' => $elements[0],
		'answers' => explode('#', $elements[1], -1),
		'correct_answer' => $elements[2],
	];
	print_r($object->question);
	print_r($object->answers);
	print_r($object->correct_answer);
?>

[Vauntage]

it's possible, but can i ask if it's forced to be more textfiles?
i would write everything in 1 File

<?php
	$line = "Is this a Question?|Yes#No#Maybe|Yes"
	$elemets = explode('|', $line, -1);
	$object = (object) [
		'question' => $elements[0],
		'answers' => explode('#', $elements[1], -1),
		'correct_answer' => $elements[2],
	];
	print_r($object->question);
	print_r($object->answers);
	print_r($object->correct_answer);
?>

I'm getting undefined offset on

 'correct_answer' => $elements[2],

. I don't understand what you mean by forced to be more text files? Did you mean all the different sections are all placed in the same file?

[MikeRohsoft]

I'm getting undefined offset on

 'correct_answer' => $elements[2],

. I don't understand what you mean by forced to be more text files? Did you mean all the different sections are all placed in the same file?

ye i mean that. i could not see why it's undefined btw, maybe you just add an | at the end and a # at the end.
I'm not really a php programmer but you can just add all information of 1 Question in 1 Line and fill all question in one file.
You can add fields for category aswell and so on, just by having a propper split- mechanic.

[Silent]

I'm getting undefined offset on

 'correct_answer' => $elements[2],

. I don't understand what you mean by forced to be more text files? Did you mean all the different sections are all placed in the same file?

remove parameter 3 for the explode function

[96neko]

So, I'm supposed to create a dynamic website, where user can choose quiz questions from 3 sections [geography,history,literature]. After the user finishes a quiz attempt, I will have to do a point calculation. Then the user can be offered to attempt a quiz from another section, do the same section but different questions or exit.

Where I'm stuck at, is this part. For every section should be at least 20 questions of which 10, by random choice, should be displayed to a user in every quiz attempt.

My professor stated that the questions should be stored in a txt file, and the quiz has to be multiple choice.

I have a txt file that has questions and is separated by PHP_EOL, and another txt file that has the options for the questions, also separated by PHP_EOL.

How would I do it such that when I do randomize the question, the options follow the specific question? I was thinking of something along the lines of a pointer, but I don't think that will be possible.

Any and all advice/help will be greatly appreciated.

i'd go with naming each question with the section name and give a number in the end like
q_geography_0 = "Which of these cities is not in Europe?"..etc just in 1 txt file
then just read all of it and get the questions based on the section you need in ur loop and the number in the end of question name will be your trick for randomize the questions for each section , you simply do random number between two nums and then just loop through it and display the questions
it may be hard talking about it but its the easy way to do it