Integrate WordPress Quiz Maker with Amazon SQS

WordPress Quiz Maker?

WordPress Quiz Maker is one of the best quiz plugin for WordPress. It was developed by InfiniteWP LLC. This plugin allows to create quizzes, tests, grades, and ppls in an extremely easy way. It provides a lot of features that are useful when creating a quizzes or tests. One of the most interesting features is the ability to integrate with Amazon SQS.

Amazon SQS?

Amazon Simple Queue System (Amazon SQS. is an elastic, fully managed message-queue service that makes it simple and cost-effective to decouple the components of a cloud application. It integrates with other AWS services like ELB, S3, Lambda, etc.

Integration of WordPress Quiz Maker and Amazon SQS

Integration of WordPress Quiz Maker and Amazon SQS means that you can connect your WordPress site with your Amazon SQS queues. There are several ways to integration between them. One of them is an integration of plugins. Another one is an integration of PHP scripts. However, this article focuses on the integration of the plugin only.

• Create an account on Amazon Web Services (AWS)

First, you must create an account on Amazon Web Services (AWS. Then go to “SQS” tab and click “create queue” button on the top of the page. Fill out the form and click “create” button. Your queue will be created at once. It takes about 10 seconds to create a queue if there aren’t many users online at the moment. After the queue is created, you should see a “create a new queue” form again with a new ID assigned to your queue. It is figured as a part of a URL – https://sqs.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/123456789012/my-queue-1/messages/ In this case, “my-queue-1” is the name of the queue and “123456789012” is your account number on AWS.

• Install and activate WordPress Quiz Maker plugin from the official website.
• Go to Settings -> AWS integration section -> Add a new connection button -> Connect to a new end point button -> Select SNS topic from dropdown list -> Copy your topic ARN from AWS conspe to Output field -> Save changes button -> Create a new end point button -> Select SQS queue from dropdown list -> Copy your queue name from AWS conspe to Output field -> Save changes button -> Create a new end point button -> Save changes button -> Edit connections button -> Change endpoint url to https://sqs.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/123456789012/my-queue-1/messages -> Save changes button -> Save changes button -> Save changes button -> Click “Try it out!” link and test whether the integration works correctly or not
• Choose 1 – 4 questions from dropdown list and click “Add Question” button -> Choose whether you want to use radio buttons, checkboxes or radio buttons and checkboxes to choose answers -> Choose 1 – 4 answers from dropdown list for each question and click “Save Answers” button • Choose whether you want to use radio buttons, checkboxes or radio buttons and checkboxes to select answers for each question • Click “Save Answers” button -> Click “View Questions” link and you should see all questions and answers displayed on your screen • Click “Create quiz” button and save your quiz • Click “Publish quiz” button and publish your quiz • Click “Download quiz template” link and download your quiz template as .zip file (WordPress Quiz Maker doesn’t support .zip files by default. • Upload this file to your WordPress site via File Manager • Open wp-content/plugins/wordpress-quiz-maker/class/php/wpqm_class_simpletestobject.php • Find line 66 “$this->setResponse(array());” • Replace array(. function with array($response['success'], $response['questions'], $response['answers']); // If there are no questions defined, set it to false // if (!$response['questions']. { $this->setResponse(false); } // If there are no correct answers defined, set it to false // if (!$response['answers']. { $this->setResponse(false); } // If there are no wrong answers defined, set it to false // if (!$response['wrong_answers']. { $this->setResponse(false); } // If there are no user's wrong answers defined, set it to false // if (!$response['user_answers']. { $this->setResponse(false); } // If there are no explanations defined, set it to false // if (!$response['explanations']. { $this->setResponse(false); } // If there are no correct explanations defined, set it to false // if (!$response['correct_explanations']. { $this->setResponse(false); } // If there are no incorrect explanations defined, set it to false // if (!$response['incorrect_explanations']. { $this->setResponse(false); } // If there are no question images defined, set it to false // if (!$response['images']. { $this->setResponse(false); } // If there are no correct images defined, set it to false // if (!$response['correct_images']. { $this->setResponse(false); } // If there are no incorrect images defined, set it to false // if (!$response['incorrect_images']. { $this->setResponse(false); } 5. Click “Try it out!” link and test whether the integration works correctly or not

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