sooryan / QuizAway

This is part of the Inductions for the Web Development Position for Spider, NITT.

Quiz Away

Here's a samll quizzing portal where to put it simply, users can add (and by extension edit and delete) questions and answer questions published by others. There's a leaderboard and a couple of extras to make this (more) fun.

###What I used

1. Client Side
2. HTML (with the phpti templating engine)
3. CSS
4. Javascript/JQuery
5. Server Side
6. PHP+MySQL (LAMP)

###Server Routes

• Open to all
  • /, /home (A simple homepage)
  • /login (The login page)
  • /register (The registration page)
  • /leaderboard (The leaderboard)
  • /user (A page to choose which user profile to view)
  • /user/{username} (View {username}'s profile)
• Protected (Only logged in users)
  • /submit (View, edit or delete previously submitted questions or add new ones)
  • /quiz (Answer all questions put up by other users)
  • /quiz/{category}(Questions pertaining to {category})

###Build Instructions

1. Clone the repo onto a subdirectory of your base apache server directory.
2. Theres a .htaccess file for neat routes. To enable it,
   • LAMP: Open the terminal and
     1. sudo nano /etc/apache2/sites-available/default
     2. Once inside that file, find the following section, and change the line that says AllowOverride from None to All. The section should now look like this: <Directory /var/www/> Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews AllowOverride All Order allow,deny allow from all </Directory>
     3. Save the file and restart apache. sudo service apache2 restart
   • WAMP: Check out this stackoverflow answer
3. Edit the config.php file. Write in your Username, Password and DBName.

• The database schema is given in the Database.sql file.
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3. Just open index.php and play around

###Links to Download additional software

1. Server
   1. Here's a guide on installing the LAMP stack. Explained with much more clarity and patience than I can muster.
2. External modules
   1. The table sorter Jquery Plugin. A simple client side tool to make tables sortable.
   2. The highcharts Jquery plugin. A jquery plugin to make the use of Highcharts, an interactive javascript chart generating library, easier.
   3. The phpti templating engine that helps make reusable templates vary easily

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