Dynamically fill Quiz Form from Database (PHP/MySQL) - php

Question

I am trying to make a quiz program that will fetch the questions and their choices from a MySQL Database, and display them as a form for the user to fill. The user (upon filling all fields) will then submit. There is no scoring here, the answers are just stored in the database with that user's registration ID (This is because some answers are open, i.e : The user has to physically type in the answer, so this will be evaluated later).
The structure of my tables are (I will post the create query since the table looks distorted and hard to read) :
Table 1 : This contains the q_id (Each question has a unique ID), question (The actual question), quiz_id (The id of the quiz that this question belongs to; There are multiple quizzes!), active (A simple "y" or "n" field that checks if this question is active. If it isnt, the question is not added to the form), and type ('c' for single choice, 'm' for Multiple choice, and 'o' for open/user text input)
CREATE TABLE `db_test`.`insr_questions` (
`q_id` INT(10) NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT ,
`question` VARCHAR(255) NOT NULL ,
`quiz_id` MEDIUMINT(8) UNSIGNED NOT NULL ,
`active` CHAR(1) NOT NULL ,
`type` CHAR(1) NOT NULL ,
PRIMARY KEY (`id`) );
Table 2: This contains the fields a_id (which is the unique ID of the answer choice), choice (Which is the actual answer choice), question_id (Which is the question ID that these answer choices belong to), and active (Which is same as above)
CREATE TABLE `db_test`.`insr_answers` (
`a_id` INT(10) NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT ,
`choice` VARCHAR(75) NOT NULL ,
`question_id` MEDIUMINT(8) UNSIGNED NOT NULL ,
`active` CHAR(1) NOT NULL ,
PRIMARY KEY (`id`) );
So the idea here is to retrieve a quiz_id and then delve into the questions table and retrieve all the questions that belong to that quiz_id, and then take each question, and retrieve all the answers that belong to that question_id. These will then have to be displayed in a php form.
Any pointers in the right direction are greatly appreciated!
(I am currently reading up on different ways in which this can be done, being a novice in php, so I will add any other code that I work on, to this question!)

Answer 1

Read up on JOINS in MySQL, this way you can get the questions and answers in one go:
SELECT * FROM insr_questions q
LEFT JOIN insr_answers a ON q.q_id = a.question_id
WHERE q.active = 1 AND q.quiz_id = 0
And then use mysql_fetch_array to loop through the results. (notice i used the table aliasses q and a, this reduces typing and used for the quiz_id an arbitrary number)

Answer 2

Finished the problem with the following algorithm :
Begin Loop (i from 0 to count(questions) )
Create TextArea
Textarea.Value = Question[i]
Get count(answers) for Question[i]
Get Type of Answer
Case(c)
Begin Loop (n from 0 to count(answers) )
Create Radio Button[n]
Radiobutton[n].Value = Choice[n]
End Loop
Case(m)
Begin Loop (n from 0 to count(answers) )
Create Checkbox[n]
Checkbox[n].Value = Choice[n]
End Loop
Case(o)
Create TextArea
End Case
End Loop