Turing/website help

Anonymous · Post by **Anonymous** » Wed May 19, 2004 10:37 am

Hey, i need to make a website for a class, and my teacher wants me to make a random question generator, and somehow get it to work on this website for him. I'm not too experienced with turing, but its all we've got, I'd like to know if this is even possible, and if it is could someone help me out?

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Red Squirrel · Post by **Red Squirrel** » Wed May 19, 2004 12:34 pm

Welcome to the forum

If it's a site, turing is not what you'll have to use, but rather php, and it would be fairly simple to do. There's two php tutorials in the article section that should get you started, if you have questions feel free to ask me! I know php and mysql. For something simple like what the teacher wants you can do a file database too to store the questions.

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Chris Vogel · Post by **Chris Vogel** » Wed May 19, 2004 4:59 pm

Yep, you want PHP for the server-side stuff!

If you just have to dish out questions, it would be super simple. Use a rand() to pick from an array or whatever, and then spit it out to the user. If you plan on accepting an answer, it gets a bit harder.

Or you could do it with JavaScript. I would not recommend it though if you have the choice of server-side languages since they are less dependent on the client. However, you do have the advantage of not having to set up anything on the testing computer. Chances are your browser supports it already.

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Anonymous · Post by **Anonymous** » Thu May 20, 2004 9:14 am

the problem is at my school, we do not have PHP, the only program i can use is Dreamweaver, and other Studio MX related programs, the network admin has things so secure here that i couldnt install any program either.

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Red Squirrel · Post by **Red Squirrel** » Thu May 20, 2004 2:04 pm

Hmm, I don't know java, but I'm sure it's possible to do it with that. You can't really use a application programming language (ex: turing, basic, c++) for web, because of security reasons. You could maybe use activeX or something but that's an IE-only thing and is usually regarded as a security threat in most cases.

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manadren_it · Post by **manadren_it** » Thu May 20, 2004 3:10 pm

Javascript seems like the best option. If you can't install something on the server, you need to do something client side. You could use real java, as in compile a java applet, and hope that the client browser supports it. There's probably a way to do it in flash as well. Still, that's a lot of work for something that could be accomplished in a quick bit of javascript, without having to worry about plugins or compiling code.

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