Country Quiz Game Suite Tutorial
Think we may have done a (web application software) set before, but honestly cannot locate it, but in any case we are here today to tell you about one of the joys of server side programming, in our case PHP.
That joy, for us, is when you get into a pattern of completely peer to peer software components, in our case PHP serverside web applications. What do we mean by peer to peer in the way we feel about the thought? It means that several, usually small, completely independent web applications can …
- as such, be easily unit tested within themselves … but …
- they each have a similar, and really easy, approach to, just right at the end of coding … ie. when they are all individually coded … link them to be pointable at each other “peer to peer” … guess the difference here, unlike our penchant for “parent/child” (which we are also very fond of), each web application component is independent and of “equal” status in our tiny little woooorrrrrrlllld!
… and this really appeals to us. Sometimes such an arrangement can be thought of as a “suite” of web applications (or programs).
So what is that really simple mechanism of linking …
- Country Flag Quiz … from yesterday (with Country Flag Quiz Game Primer Tutorial as shown below) … country_flag_quiz.php (and the only one to “change”, as such, as per this link … as described further below) live run … to both of …
- Country Currency Quiz … new country_currency_quiz.php live run … and …
- Country Capital Quiz … new country_capital_quiz.php live run … but not like this “capital” … chortle, chortle …
? We just have a rearranged HTML select (dropdown) element as below (exemplified below for the “Country Capital Quiz”) …
<select onchange=' location.href="http://www.rjmprogramming.com.au/PHP/country_" + this.value.toLowerCase() + "_quiz.php"; '><option value=Capital>Capital</option><option value=Currency>Currency</option><option value=Flag>Flag</option></select>
… but just arrange for the “home” top HTML option element to point at the quiz theme of interest for that piece of web application PHP software.
And the placement of such a dropdown? Well, we often annoy our HTML h1 elements with such dropdowns, but we’ve been a little more UXy today, by replacing an otherwise less dynamic (HTML (table) th element) heading (single word), with something dynamic, and perhaps useful, to some quizzer users out there in “net” land!
And this is what we like to think of as “clobbering” (but we encourage you to think of a less aggressive word perhaps) something not very dynamic with something dynamic, but optionally so, in that it is up to the user whether they make use of the added functionality, or not, is another way “some of us we like to roll”.
Now, perhaps you are thinking it rather cheeky to say that this is so peer to peer with the quiz concepts being so different, and yes, that is so, but what does bring things together is the generosity of the “net” and its data resources to find out information, so, we’d like to thank …
- Country Flag Quiz … thanks to Tiki Wiki CMS … effectively giving up a country list to work with … and …
- Country Currency Quiz … thanks to this link links countries to currencies (and (3 letter) country codes and (3 letter) currency codes) … and …
- Country Capital Quiz … thanks to this link links countries to capitals
If you don’t have an interest in a server side language like PHP to glean such information, please consider Ajax programming techniques to be able to (just) stick with HTML and Javascript and CSS (client side) coding. But if you do … your PHP homework for today is to read about the file_get_contents method.
Previous relevant Country Flag Quiz Game Primer Tutorial is shown below.
Country Flag Quiz Game Primer Tutorial
Often, the simpler you make the working of a web application, the more appealing it is. Not always, but often. Lots of us like to test our knowledge with a quiz, and lots of us have our specialty subjects. So, today’s “Country Flag Quiz” web application, that we also talk about at WordPress 4.1.1’s Country Flag Quiz Game Primer Tutorial, will be right up the alley of some people. Got to say that it felt like a huge challenge to get a decent score in this game, speaking personally, and found myself resorting to … but we digress … to come up with a pass mark for the game.
Today’s game we wrote in PHP (that you could call country_flag_quiz.php and which you can try with today’s live run link) and used its Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious glob method … we’ve spoken about (quite a bit) here.
We need to thank the excellent Tiki Wiki CMS product (which you can try for yourself at this test website) for the help with the country flag imagery, as well, today.
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