How do I get a crossword puzzle or a quiz interactive?

unluckyviolin: How do I get a crossword puzzle or a quiz interactive?
I am using freewebs for a project and I need to make the website interactive. I thought about creating a crossword and a quiz to go on the website, but I don’t know how someone could fill out the crossword or quiz on the website itself.

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Answer by Samwise
Look into HTML forms. From the advertising I see on a Google search for freewebs (which I don’t use), it should support them.

I’ve been fooling with a crossword-puzzle grid generator for my own site. My project is simpler; just allow someone to indicate (with an array of checkboxes) the layout of blacked-out squares on the grid, then generate and number the grid (crossword numbering conventions have easily-programmed rules) and provide a drop-down selection box for choosing each letter in an open cell.

That works if the user is getting the puzzle out of a newspaper or book and just doesn’t want to write in the printed grid (say, because they’re saving it for someone else to use). But it doesn’t deliver the clues. For actually producing a crossword, usable online, I’d suggest a PHP-based generator that ties the clues to the numbers in the grid as pop-up “tips.”

Unfortunately, the freewebs FAQ (which I’ve been pulling up in another window as I write this) says they don’t support PHP.

For a quiz, they do support programming using Perl, but that’s a premium-service offering. The problem is that once the user fills out the form containing the quiz, there has to be programming to process the form.

Answer by kaynath
Depending on your experience or if you know somebody who has experience in flash, you can create the puzzle that way. An example of a flash crossword puzzle can be found on https://puzzlejet.com.