Comments on: The “CASTING NASTURTIUMS” Quiz

By: Greg Shalless

Greg Shalless — Wed, 29 Sep 2010 03:17:13 +0000

As long as you had fun and learnt something in the process that’s all that matters. You would of course learn a whole lot more if you bought the book, and that goes for people who think they know it all.

Regards Greg

By: Stephen Angelico

Stephen Angelico — Tue, 28 Sep 2010 22:43:14 +0000

I only succeeded 3 out of 10, because I was a bit too alert – I thought that any word that didn’t sound right counted as an error. I mean, if they write a book about it, there must be more errors…

By: Greg Shalless

Greg Shalless — Tue, 28 Sep 2010 01:20:37 +0000

Thanks John,

Glad you think so. Now if I could only sell half as many copies as Lynne Truss did, I’d be a very happy man.

Regards Greg

By: John Angelico

John Angelico — Sat, 25 Sep 2010 01:40:08 +0000

Hi Greg.

Lots of fun, many thanks.

It appears that your book/website is the grammatical and malapropistic equivalent of “Eats Shoots and Leaves” !

By: Greg Shalless

Greg Shalless — Thu, 22 Apr 2010 00:23:53 +0000

Sorry about the delay for some reason I thought I had already replied to this.
To initialise it to 1 before each of the two “for each” loops:

$question_count = 1;
foreach ($all_question as $ques) {

To increment it at the end before exiting the loop:

$question_count++;
}

Regards Greg

By: PH

PH — Mon, 05 Apr 2010 12:33:37 +0000

Thank you for the rapid response Greg, but I don’t know much about coding. I don’t know how to “initialise it to 1 before entering the for each loop” or how to “increment it at the end before exiting the loop”. Could you qrite out the code if it is not too much trouble. (If you can’t afford the time, it’s OK. I’ll try to sort it out somehow.)

By: Greg Shalless

Greg Shalless — Tue, 30 Mar 2010 12:55:01 +0000

Thanks David. You are quite correct. I will fix it eventually.

By: Greg Shalless

Greg Shalless — Tue, 30 Mar 2010 12:44:23 +0000

You should use the $question-count code rather than the $ques->id code, and remember to initialise it to 1 before entering the "for each" loop, and increment it at the end before exiting the loop. The people hosting my site have upgraded to WordPress MU, in which you lose the ability to edit Plugins, so my Quiz no longer has numbers. Beware of this if you're thinking of upgrading.

By: PH

PH — Tue, 30 Mar 2010 09:57:33 +0000

Hello,
Sorry to be bothering you. I read your comments on Quizzin wordpress plugin forum and made the modifications you had suggested in order to have the questions and answers numbered. They are numbered now for sure, but both start from 3 rather than 1. Could you please tell me how I can correct this?
Thanks!

By: David Toyne

David Toyne — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 23:52:31 +0000

In all the ‘questions’ with double inverted commas round words, these should be single inverted commas as they are not quoted speech but reported.