I am going to try and add a quiz element to the blog. I thought I could do some studying/refreshing on boat related stuff and learn something computer at the same time. For now I will start with a plugin called SlickQuiz. I like Watu but the free version doesn’t give me randomization options and I am not forking out $75 bucks for what is essentially a one person project. The plan is to enter a whole bunch of questions from basic boat terminology to light and sound signals. I will then just break them into 10 question quick-quizzes and hopefully use them like digital flash cards to try and get some of the more esoteric stuff to stick. The entry interface to SlickQuiz sucks so I will start by building a database for question entry and then export the output to an xml file that I will import via phpmyadmin directly into the wp databases

Notes

• Must either delete the records first or change the id. XML import will not replace or update records; it will only add new.
• At this point  I can’t make the xml export work straight from Filemaker so I have to copy the output file manually and past it in Text Wrangler. From there I can use phpMyAdmin to import the xml file.

The Quiz page