QuizSMS

A simple system that will leverage SMS from Nexmo 📲👌 and create a way for anybody to SMS an answer to a question. Live dashboard shows incoming quiz responses uses Pusher 🤖♥. Used at Hackference 2016 to manage the quiz at the conference.

The whole system was hacked together quickly, thanks to the wonderful API's of Nexmo and Pusher, who make it super quick to get something up and running within hours.

Based on

Requires

PHP 5.5.9
MySQL
Nexmo Account
Pusher Account

Installation

git clone https://github.com/JakePrice86/QuizSMS .
composer install
php artisan migrate

If you have any problems, make sure you follow these instructions

Setup

in .env you should change:

DB_DATABASE=
DB_USERNAME=
DB_PASSWORD=
PUSHER_KEY=
PUSHER_SECRET=
APP_ID=

To change the answers, find config/answers.php and change the array. It should be very self-explanatory.

When creating a number inside Nexmo, you'll want to set a webhook back to your system. This webhook will tell you when somebody has SMS your number, and will parse the body of the message, and check if the answer is right or wrong. The webhook you want to enter in should be http://YOURWEBSITE.COM/quiz

How to use the system

Users should text your number from Nexmo with messages that look like: A 1 or C 13 - Answer then Question. A user can only answer a question once, and their first answer is the one that is recorded. Monitor your live responses at http://YOURWEBSITE.COM/dashboard, check who has entered on the Users page, and pick a random correct answer from all of the correct answers!