function qformat_examview::readquestion in Quiz 6.5

Same name and namespace in other branches

1. 6.6 includes/moodle/question/format/examview/format.php \qformat_examview::readquestion()

Given the data known to define a question in this format, this function converts it into a question object suitable for processing and insertion into Moodle.

If your format does not use blank lines to delimit questions (e.g. an XML format) you must override 'readquestions' too

Parameters

$lines mixed data that represents question:

Return value

object question object

Overrides qformat_default::readquestion

1 call to qformat_examview::readquestion()

qformat_examview::readquestions in includes/moodle/question/format/examview/format.php

Parses an array of lines into an array of questions, where each item is a question object as defined by readquestion(). Questions are defined as anything between blank lines.

File

includes/moodle/question/format/examview/format.php, line 153

Class

qformat_examview

Code

function readquestion($qrec) {
  $type = trim($qrec['@']['type']);
  $question = $this
    ->defaultquestion();
  if (array_key_exists($type, $this->qtypes)) {
    $question->qtype = $this->qtypes[$type];
  }
  else {
    $question->qtype = null;
  }
  $question->single = 1;

  // Only one answer is allowed
  $htmltext = $this
    ->unxmlise($qrec['#']['text'][0]['#']);
  $question->questiontext = $htmltext;
  $question->name = shorten_text($question->questiontext, 250);
  switch ($question->qtype) {
    case MULTICHOICE:
      $question = $this
        ->parse_mc($qrec['#'], $question);
      break;
    case MATCH:
      $groupname = trim($qrec['@']['group']);
      $question = $this
        ->parse_ma($qrec['#'], $groupname);
      break;
    case TRUEFALSE:
      $question = $this
        ->parse_tf_yn($qrec['#'], $question);
      break;
    case SHORTANSWER:
      $question = $this
        ->parse_co($qrec['#'], $question);
      break;
    case ESSAY:
      $question = $this
        ->parse_sa($qrec['#'], $question);
      break;
    case NUMERICAL:
      $question = $this
        ->parse_nr($qrec['#'], $question);
      break;
      break;
    default:
      print "<p>Question type " . $type . " import not supported for " . $question->questiontext . "<p>";
      $question = NULL;
  }

  // end switch ($question->qtype)
  return $question;
}