Certificates

Hello Viewers! I stumbled onto a few more people making requests along the same lines, none with answers, so I wanted to present a simple method to produce customized certificates, using either Flash or HTML5, without the added expense of a LMS.

What you need:

• PHP Enabled Webserver
• SMTP Server (Private or Public: Google, etc)
• PHPMailer
• InternalServerReporting.php (Comes with Adobe Captivate)

For Captivate:

1. Enable reporting for the Quiz
2. Select “Internal Server”
3. Fill out the server address (https://www.example.com/dev/InternalServerReporting.php)
4. Fill out the Company, Department, and Course
5. Publish the project to the web server and test

For the Server:

1. Copy/Install ‘PHPMailer’ in the www directory

To enable Email reporting

1. Grab ‘A Simple Example’ from https://github.com/PHPMailer/PHPMailer
2. Paste the code example at the bottom of InternalServerReporting.php
3. Modify the code to point to your SMTP server, credentials, port, and include your new variables. For a quick proof of concept, use the following line: $mail->Body    = "Your Adobe Captivate Department is equal to: " . $DepartmentName . ".";

Note: You will need to parse $Filedata to get quiz results, answers, custom variables, etc. There are many ways to parse in PHP, so I will skip over this step.

So each time a user hits ‘Post Results’ and results are recorded, it will trigger InternalServerReporting.php which in turn will execute the code to send an email.

My email response looks like this:

Note: All variables in the below example are custom from parsing $Filedata.

($ClassName)

($StudentName)

($CompanyName) confirms that the above named participated in the training session and successfully passed the final exam.

Date: ($Date)

Score: ($Score)

The training included the following topics: ($CourseMetaData)