Hi chaps if you could help me out with this it would be great!

What I'm making is a quiz game and the problem i'm having is with echoing includes now I can do that fine but is echoing all of them?!?

what it is ment to do is if you get a question right or wrong it will display a fact about the answer chosen, that's what in the includes are for so you pick one answer from a radio button from the other page it parse the date to here, adjust lives and score(that works fine) then displays the info.

I have been messing around with the code for a few hours now and it gotta be something wrong with the structure?

thanks in advance Luke

PHP Code:

<?php
session_start(); 
$answer = $_POST['q1'];
$ans1 = include('ans/q1a1.php');
$ans2 = include('ans/q1a2.php');
$ans3 = include('ans/q1a3.php');
$ans4 = include('ans/q1a4.php');
$ans5 = include('ans/q1a5.php');
$ans6 = include('ans/q1a6.php');

if ($answer == "answer4")
{ echo "$ans4". $_SESSION['score'] += 1;}

elseif($answer == "answer1")
{echo "$ans1". $_SESSION['lives'] -= 1;}

elseif($answer == "answer2")
{echo "$ans2". $_SESSION['lives'] -= 1;}

elseif($answer == "answer3")
{echo "$ans3". $_SESSION['lives'] -= 1;}

elseif($answer == "answer5")
{echo "$ans5". $_SESSION['lives'] -= 1;}

else($answer == "answer6")
{echo "$ans6". $_SESSION['lives'] -= 1;}

Print_r ($_SESSION);

session_destroy();
         
?>

Okay so are the answers just stored in a php file? Why don't you use a database. It's much faster that way.

But if you do want to just get contents off the .php file and not process it use file_get_contents() instead of include. If you use include() it will include the file. Period. And it will always do so even if you don't echo the variable.

An alternative way to do this would be to only include the file you need in the answer. There's really no reason to load info about all the answers if you are only displaying one of them.

PHP Code:

<?php
session_start(); 
$answer = $_POST['q1'];

if ($answer == "answer4")
{
include('ans/q1a4.php');
echo $_SESSION['score'] += 1;
}

elseif($answer == "answer1")
{
include('ans/q1a1.php');
echo $_SESSION['score'] -= 1;
}

elseif($answer == "answer2")
{
include('ans/q1a2.php');
echo $_SESSION['score'] -= 1;
}
elseif($answer == "answer3")
{
include('ans/q1a3.php');
echo $_SESSION['score'] -= 1;
}
elseif($answer == "answer5")
{
include('ans/q1a5.php');
echo $_SESSION['score'] -= 1;
}
else($answer == "answer6")
{
include('ans/q1a6.php');
echo $_SESSION['score'] -= 1;
}
Print_r ($_SESSION);

session_destroy();
         
?>

I still think it would make your life easier to use a database though. Then you'd be able to control things a bit better and not have to worry about includes.

Okay so are the answers just stored in a php file? Why don't you use a database. It's much faster that way.

in the include() file are paragraphs of text and videos, so if you get it the question right wrong it will display some info about the answer you have picked, in this example "answer4" is correct.

I have just tried file_get_contents() and it works perfectly. I have never heard of that function before, is it more economical an the server also?

Thank you very much for your help also!

As long as you're not importing a huge file it shouldn't affect the server. Glad I could help =)