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Use Mad Blanks to set up a quiz or survey on your Joomla site and respond to the user any number of ways with a Score Script.

Quick Tip

Mad Blanks form validation allows you to specify that only certain text or certain patterns of text may be entered into a given field by the website user. Examples of this include requiring that only digits be entered for a postal code, and only a certain number of them, and that only two uppercase letters be entered to represent a state or province.
 
Mad Blanks 1.1.0 is Released
Mad Blanks News
Written by Chris Hallett   
Friday, May 29, 2009

Upgrade instructions are included in this article. 

I have released Mad Blanks 1.1.0 final.

This release introduces a few useful major features. In addition there are a number of bug fixes, compatibility fixes (notably with Joomfish), and minor feature upgrades.

The following major features have been added or modified in Mad Blanks 1.1.0: 

  • Archive Score Scripts are now available. Choose a Score Script to display with each record when it is viewed later via the component's front end interface or the Mad Blanks Display module
  • It is now possible in Joomla 1.5 to display Mad Blanks modules and other modules in the main content area by using the component's front end interface. This will make it much easier to show quizzes in Joomla's main content area. Use http://www.example.com/index.php?option=com_madblanks&task=showmbmod&mid=X where X is the module's ID number.
  • As an extension of the above functionality, if you publish a copy of the Mad Blanks Create Single Record module in the madblanks module position, the Mad Blanks main component interface (http://www.example.com/index.php?option=com_madblanks) will now link to the quizzes/surveys that are available to take via that module.
  • There is a new Score Script tag called the nextcategory tag that will allow you to more easily daisychain one quiz after another using the same copy of the Create Single Record module. For example, using [:nextcategory:2:] in a Score Script will cause the Create Single Record module to load the input fields for category 2 next. And [:nextcategory:0:] will cause the Create Single Record module not to load another category after displaying the Score Script output.

 

The following minor features, additions, and bug fixes have been added to Mad Blanks version 1.1.0:

  • Fix for Joomfish compatibility
  • Added custom string functions for UTF-8 compatibility: madblanks_strtoupper, madblanks_strtolower, madblanks_strlen, madblanks_strrpos, madblanks_substr
  • Changed order of CSR parameters in After submitting the form... section to put Score Script first, display completed record second to match the order in which they display
  • Add warning about Suhosin being installed; specifically, check for web server variables request.max_vars and post.max_vars
  • Move hidden form elements option and task to the top of the category save form
  • Change & to & entity inside links and hidden form variables for XHTML compliance
  • Add custom check box function to eliminate brackets [] in the id attribute of HTML input form tags
  • Modified Score Scripting code to allow for the use of negative and decimal point values (both type A and type B)
  • Added parameters in CSR module for text that comes before the question block and the text that comes after the question block
  • Added text equivalent operators to comparison (eq, ne, lt, gt, le, ge) and logical (not) Score Script tags
  • Fixed each:info tag bug in Score Script processing
  • Fixed probelm in Joomla 1.5: $mbStartPage ineffective (add global variable to top of madblanks.php file)
  • Added readme file to language directory with notes how to translate etc.
  • Changed default value of CSR showcompletedrecord to -3 (No, and show a button to allow user to input another record)
  • Standardized madblanksconfig.php to use single quote strings only and modified how the configuration file is saved
  • Numerous other small fixes and alterations
Last Updated ( Thursday, June 11, 2009 )
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What does Mad Blanks do?
Mad Blanks Basic Description
Written by Chris Hallett   
Sunday, August 17, 2008
Collect, store, and display form input (or just store and display admin input--see below). Give quizzes or surveys and respond to what the user entered with powerful and flexible Score Scripts.
Last Updated ( Sunday, August 17, 2008 )
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Please Ask Questions!
Mad Blanks Basic Description
Written by Chris Hallett   
Sunday, November 11, 2007
If you think Mad Blanks is even remotely a possibility for use in your project, you can post in the How Do I... section of the forum to ask how to do what you want. As author of the component and modules, I will be glad to answer your inquiry and let you know if what you want is possible out of the box and if so how to do it. I also discuss customizations from simple to moderate (and free, on the forum!) to more complex.
Last Updated ( Sunday, November 11, 2007 )
 
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Mad Blanks Quiz

This is an example quiz for you to try that was created with the Mad Blanks component and its "Create Single Record" module. Please fill in the answer(s) to each question and Mad Blanks will score your submission when you are done.
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What can you do with Mad Blanks? (check all answers that apply)







Display Module

This is the Mad Blanks Display module. It is configured to display three random records stored on the site. These are only examples. As a Joomla! website author, you can create any Mad Lib or other category you would like to!
Linkable Quotation
Humpty Dumpty
Humpty Dumpty sat on a pickle. Humpty Dumpty had a big chair. All the king's horses and all the king's mushrooms couldn't vote Humpty together again!
A Girl and Her Lamb
June had a little lamb whose fleece was white as snow. And everywhere that June went the lamb was sure to hug.

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