How to distribute the results retrieved from database into individual pages? - php

Question

I'm facing such a problem,
I have a database bank with lots of questions and their joined answers 'multiple choice system'!
I wrote a PHP script to retrieve (15) questions each time a user enters the page, 'index.php' as a radio-buttons.
Now my bass asked me to change the method of showing the questions! so, instead of 15 questions at the same page! he asked to show one question per time, something like this:
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1. Question TEXT:
a. 1st variant
b. 2nd variant
c. 3rd variant
d. 4th variant
<NEXT QUESTION>
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so by clicking on the button which is a "submit" the script should redirect me to the second part of the file which must show the second question, and from the second as shown above to the third --> forth --> ... --> 15th question
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1st question is: Correct //This part will check the correction/incorrection of the previous question -_-
2. Question2 TEXT:
a. 1st variant
b. 2nd variant
c. 3rd variant
d. 4th variant
<NEXT QUESTION>
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bottom line, I am able to bring a 15 question on the page and after checking the answers I give the results. but I could figure out how to distribute these questions into individual pages!! as
'index.php?question=1'
'index.php?question=2'
'index.php?question=3'
...
'index.php?question=15'
Thank you guys!

Answer 1

so as I said, I wanted to distribute the results retrieved from one query into individual pages, and I came up with this idea,
1. Did the same query
SELECT * FROM database ORDER BY RAND() LIMIT 10
then I saved the IDz of the retrieved questions into an array just like that
$id = array();
$_SESSION[corr] = 0;
$_SESSION[incorr] = 0;
while ($row = mysql_fetch_assoc($query) {
$id[] = $row[ID];
}
Then I saved the array into a SESSION to pass it in every required page as follows
$_SESSION[ID] = $id;
after that I set a link such as
echo "<a href=test.php?question=1>Click To Start</a>";
and last but not least did something like this
if ($_REQUEST['question'] == '1') {
$id = $_SESSION['id'];
$sql = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM `test` WHERE `id` = '$id[0]'") or die("Error" .mysql_error());
$row = mysql_fetch_assoc($sql);
echo "<font color=green>Correct: " .$_SESSION[corr]. "</font></br>";
echo "<font color=red>Incorrect: " .$_SESSION[incorr]. "</font></br>";
echo "$row[v]<br>";
echo "<form action='test.php?question=2' method='POST'>";
echo "<input type=radio name=answer1 value=1>$row[o1]</input><br>";
echo "<input type=radio name=answer1 value=2>$row[o2]</input><br>";
echo "<input type=radio name=answer1 value=3>$row[o3]</input><br>";
echo "<input type=radio name=answer1 value=4>$row[o4]</input><br>";
echo "<input type=submit name=submit value=Check>";
echo "</form>";
$_SESSION['previous_id'] = $row['id'];
exit;
and in the next part "test.php?question=2"
I firstly checked if the previous question was answered correctly as the following
if ($_REQUEST['question'] == '2') {
$id = $_SESSION['id'];
$answer = $_POST['answer1'];
$grade = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM `test` WHERE `id` = {$_SESSION['previous_id']}") or die();
$right = mysql_fetch_assoc($grade);
if ($answer == $right[g]) {
$_SESSION['corr']++;
echo "<font color=green>Correct</font></br>";
}
else {
$_SESSION['incorr']++;
echo "<font color=red>Incorrect, check lesson #".$right[lvl]."</font></br>";
}
$sql = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM `test` WHERE `id` = '$id[1]'") or die("Error" .mysql_error());
$row = mysql_fetch_assoc($sql);
echo "$row[v]<br>";
echo "<form action='test.php?question=3' method='POST'>";
echo "<input type=radio name=answer2 value=1>$row[o1]</input><br>";
echo "<input type=radio name=answer2 value=2>$row[o2]</input><br>";
echo "<input type=radio name=answer2 value=3>$row[o3]</input><br>";
echo "<input type=radio name=answer2 value=4>$row[o4]</input><br>";
echo "<input type=submit name=submit value=Check>";
echo "</form>";
$_SESSION['previous_id'] = $row['id'];
exit;
}
That worked just 100% as I wanted, but it is just not feeling professional, because I had to rewrite that code, or copy and edit the same above shown codes lots of times, considering I am trying to post 10 or 15 questions separately..
hopefully that helps some one else!