Chapter 15: Quiz Show

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The goal of this chapter is to present in detail scripts for a quiz show application.

Background

Education applications and games are a significant and growing area of the computer and Web industry. The requirements for these applications drive technology in the same way as e-commerce.

The United States state capital application featured in an earlier chapter demonstrated the use of PHP and ASP in quiz-type applications in which information was kept in array variables. The information was in files to be included using the PHP require function and the ASP include instruction. The quiz show application that is the focus of this chapter is based on the use of databases. The databases contain tables holding the questions, data on players and history of player performance. The application makes use of important features in SQL, PHP and MySQL, ASP/JavaScript, and Access.