[Xerte-dev] Re: testing and tracking issues with XOT 1.8 beta

Kemp Johnathan johnathan.kemp at ntlworld.com
Fri Apr 20 22:00:29 BST 2012


I can confirm that I can now preview the web site again.

Thanks Pat and Ron for sorting it out.

Kind regards

Johnathan

On 20 April 2012 18:22, Pat Lockley <patrick.lockley at googlemail.com> wrote:

> We need to work out some sort of versioning and release as two of the
> fixes I made are of bugs introduced from changes (shouldn't have been
> committed)
>
> On Fri, Apr 20, 2012 at 5:58 PM, Ron Mitchell <ronm at mitchellmedia.co.uk>
> wrote:
> > Thanks Pat that's great. I've uploaded your changes and the sharing now
> > appears to be working correctly without errors.
> >
> > Tested switch and that's working too!
> >
> > Cheers
> > Ron
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
> > [mailto:xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Pat
> Lockley
> > Sent: 20 April 2012 17:43
> > To: For Xerte technical developers
> > Subject: [Xerte-dev] Re: testing and tracking issues with XOT 1.8 beta
> >
> > Some one had made preview.php not work - changed a parameter to
> something it
> > wasn't supposed to be. Now fixed.
> >
> > Also fixed switch.txt and modifed a lot of the file update code
> (including
> > some changes that aren't mine and broke stuff)
> >
> > On Fri, Apr 20, 2012 at 3:52 PM, Ron Mitchell <ronm at mitchellmedia.co.uk>
> > wrote:
> >> not in modules/xerte/preview.php but in preview.php in the root I can
> >> see there's a require to template_status.php where that function exists.
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> From: xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
> >> [mailto:xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Pat
> >> Lockley
> >> Sent: 20 April 2012 15:21
> >>
> >>
> >> To: For Xerte technical developers
> >> Subject: [Xerte-dev] Re: testing and tracking issues with XOT 1.8 beta
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> Is there an is shares template? Function call
> >>
> >> On 20 Apr 2012, at 15:09, "Ron Mitchell" <ronm at mitchellmedia.co.uk>
> wrote:
> >>
> >> extract
> >> //////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
> >> /////////////////////
> >>
> >> function show_preview_code($row, $row_username){
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>                global $xerte_toolkits_site;
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>                /*
> >>
> >>                * Format the XML strings to provide data to the engine
> >>
> >>                */
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> if(!file_exists($xerte_toolkits_site->users_file_area_short
> > .
> >> $row['template_id'] . "-" . $row_username['username'] . "-" .
> >> $row['template_name'] . "/preview.xml")){
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>                               $buffer =
> >> file_get_contents($xerte_toolkits_site->users_file_area_short .
> >> $row['template_id'] . "-" . $row_username['username'] . "-" .
> >> $row['template_name'] . "/data.xml");
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>                               $fp =
> >> fopen($xerte_toolkits_site->users_file_area_short . $row['template_id']
> .
> >> "-" . $row_username['username'] . "-" . $row['template_name'] .
> >> "/preview.xml","x");
> >>
> >>                               fwrite($fp, $buffer);
> >>
> >>                               fclose($fp);
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>                }
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>                $string_for_flash_xml =
> >> $xerte_toolkits_site->users_file_area_short . $row['template_id'] . "-"
> .
> >> $row_username['username'] . "-" . $row['template_name'] .
> "/preview.xml" .
> >> "?time=" . time();
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>                $string_for_flash =
> >> $xerte_toolkits_site->users_file_area_short . $row['template_id'] . "-"
> .
> >> $row_username['username'] . "-" . $row['template_name'] . "/";
> >>
> >> extract
> >> //////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
> >> /////////////////////
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> From: xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
> >> [mailto:xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Pat
> >> Lockley
> >> Sent: 20 April 2012 15:04
> >> To: For Xerte technical developers
> >> Subject: [Xerte-dev] Re: testing and tracking issues with XOT 1.8 beta
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> Not on pc
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> What is the path variable made from?
> >>
> >> On 20 Apr 2012, at 14:58, "Ron Mitchell" <ronm at mitchellmedia.co.uk>
> wrote:
> >>
> >> Assuming that you mean modules/xerte/preview.php see attached.
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> Presumably somewhere $row_username['username'] get's passed the owner
> >> ID when it's a shared project?
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> From: xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
> >> [mailto:xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Pat
> >> Lockley
> >> Sent: 20 April 2012 14:47
> >> To: For Xerte technical developers
> >> Subject: [Xerte-dev] Re: testing and tracking issues with XOT 1.8 beta
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> No, what is in the code
> >>
> >> On 20 Apr 2012, at 14:38, "Ron Mitchell" <ronm at mitchellmedia.co.uk>
> wrote:
> >>
> >> Do you mean what happens when clicking preview?
> >>
> >> The error below
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> Warning:
> >> file_get_contents(USER-FILES/31-patrick.lockley at googlemail.com-Notting
> >> ham/da
> >> ta.xml): failed to open stream: No such file or directory in
> >> /var/www/vle/xot/modules/xerte/preview.php on line 35 Warning:
> >>
> > fopen(USER-FILES/31-patrick.lockley at googlemail.com-Nottingham
> /preview.xml):
> >> failed to open stream: No such file or directory in
> >> /var/www/vle/xot/modules/xerte/preview.php on line 37 Warning:
> >> fwrite() expects parameter 1 to be resource, boolean given in
> >> /var/www/vle/xot/modules/xerte/preview.php on line 38 Warning:
> >> fclose() expects parameter 1 to be resource, boolean given in
> >> /var/www/vle/xot/modules/xerte/preview.php on line 39
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> Followed by the preloader trying to load the xml but obviously not
> >> finding it.
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> From: xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
> >> [mailto:xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Pat
> >> Lockley
> >> Sent: 20 April 2012 14:21
> >> To: For Xerte technical developers
> >> Subject: [Xerte-dev] Re: testing and tracking issues with XOT 1.8 beta
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> What does modules/preview.php show
> >>
> >> On 20 Apr 2012, at 14:08, "Ron Mitchell" <ronm at mitchellmedia.co.uk>
> wrote:
> >>
> >> You are user 10!
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> It seems like when the shared editor (in this case you) tries to
> >> preview the LO the code is looking in your user-files folder rather
> >> than the owner's e.g. mine.
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> Whereas in previous versions it correctly looks in the owner's folder.
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> From: xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
> >> [mailto:xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Pat
> >> Lockley
> >> Sent: 20 April 2012 13:52
> >> To: For Xerte technical developers
> >> Subject: [Xerte-dev] Re: testing and tracking issues with XOT 1.8 beta
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> No, that. Who is user 10?
> >>
> >> On 20 Apr 2012, at 12:11, "Ron Mitchell" <ronm at mitchellmedia.co.uk>
> wrote:
> >>
> >> Do you mean the following?
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> Click here to add this user
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> javascript:share_this_template('31', '10')
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> or somewhere else?
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> From: xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
> >> [mailto:xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Pat
> >> Lockley
> >> Sent: 20 April 2012 11:55
> >> To: For Xerte technical developers
> >> Subject: [Xerte-dev] Re: testing and tracking issues with XOT 1.8 beta
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> Hover over the share link and note the parameters?
> >>
> >> On 20 Apr 2012, at 11:42, "Ron Mitchell" <ronm at mitchellmedia.co.uk>
> wrote:
> >>
> >> Hi Pat
> >>
> >> apologies for the delayed response but I wanted to test this on a pre
> >> 1.8 install to verify what happens...
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> In a pre 1.8 installation if I share an LO with another user when that
> >> user clicks preview it loads preview.xml from my lo folder e.g.
> >> USER-FILES/31-ronm-Nottingham/preview.xml?time=1334918728
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> In this current 1.8 beta if I share an LO with your account and then
> >> you try to preview that LO it's looking at
> >> USER-FILES/31-patrick.lockley at googlemail.com-Nottingham/preview.xml?ti
> >> me=1334918794
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> So unless the way this works has changed (?) it seems like the preview
> >> code is looking in the wrong place e.g. the shared user account rather
> >> than the owner account. In the example below
> >> USER-FILES/31-ronm-Nottingham/preview.xml exists but
> >> USER-FILES/31-patrick.lockley at googlemail.com-Nottingham/preview.xml
> >> doesn't but I'm not sure it should? Is the wrong username being passed
> > somewhere?
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> Cheers
> >>
> >> Ron
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> From: xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
> >> [mailto:xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Pat
> >> Lockley
> >> Sent: 20 April 2012 09:44
> >> To: For Xerte technical developers
> >> Subject: [Xerte-dev] Re: testing and tracking issues with XOT 1.8 beta
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> Is the file there?
> >>
> >> On Friday, April 20, 2012, Ron Mitchell wrote:
> >>
> >> Hi Pat
> >> it seems I spoke to soon when saying the sharing functionality is
> >> fixed :-( It is fixed in terms of owners are now able to share access
> >> with other users but it seems those other users get an error when trying
> > to preview the LO.
> >> I've shared a very simple LO with your account (just has a title page)
> >> and you'll see that when you try to preview you'll get the following
> > errors:
> >>
> >> Warning:
> >> file_get_contents(USER-FILES/31-patrick.lockley at googlemail.com-Notting
> >> ham/da
> >> ta.xml): failed to open stream: No such file or directory in
> >> /var/www/vle/xot/modules/xerte/preview.php on line 35 Warning:
> >>
> > fopen(USER-FILES/31-patrick.lockley at googlemail.com-Nottingham
> /preview.xml):
> >> failed to open stream: No such file or directory in
> >> /var/www/vle/xot/modules/xerte/preview.php on line 37 Warning:
> >> fwrite() expects parameter 1 to be resource, boolean given in
> >> /var/www/vle/xot/modules/xerte/preview.php on line 38 Warning:
> >> fclose() expects parameter 1 to be resource, boolean given in
> >> /var/www/vle/xot/modules/xerte/preview.php on line 39
> >>
> >> Jonathan also reported the same issue with an LO I shared with quite a
> >> few accounts and obviously this hasn't been a problem with previous
> >> versions. Is it another mangle as a result of the svn merge? Is there a
> > fix?
> >>
> >> Cheers
> >> Ron
> >>
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
> >> [mailto:xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Ron
> >> Mitchell
> >> Sent: 19 April 2012 19:59
> >> To: 'For Xerte technical developers'
> >> Subject: [Xerte-dev] Re: testing and tracking issues with XOT 1.8 beta
> >>
> >> Hi Pat
> >> thanks for the code updates and regarding convention with the fields
> >> feel free to change the category column or let me know what you feel
> >> they should be.
> >>
> >> I've uploaded your code updates and the project sharing is definitely
> >> fixed now but I can't verify the management page fixes because the
> >> management.php page is now showing a blank screen? Any ideas on that?
> >>
> >> Ron
> >>
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
> >> [mailto:xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Pat
> >> Lockley
> >> Sent: 19 April 2012 19:18
> >> To: For Xerte technical developers
> >> Subject: [Xerte-dev] Re: testing and tracking issues with XOT 1.8 beta
> >>
> >> Could we get some convention with the fields - some stuff is PHP, some
> >> stuff is referencing a page - it's a bit messed up.
> >>
> >> On Thu, Apr 19, 2012 at 5:31 PM, Ron Mitchell
> >> <ronm at mitchellmedia.co.uk>
> >> wrote:
> >>> Hi all
> >>> thanks to those who have been testing the XOT 1.8 beta via the JISC
> >>> Techdis installation and recording issues via the Google doc we have
> >>> set
> >> up.
> >>>
> >>> The list of items in the Google doc has increased dramatically since
> >>> I shared that this morning but for obvious reasons please don't share
> >>> the link to that via this list. If anyone else on the dev list
> >>> reading this is keen to get involved in testing and better still
> >>> fixing please contact me off-list to send you details.
> >>>
> >>> The Google doc is just an initial way of sharing test results and I
> >>> guess key bugs will be transferred to the google code issue tracker.
> >>>
> >>> The categories of issues have grown but for me there are some
> >>> immediate issues categorised as php/website code issues e.g. can't
> >>> share a project, can't save anything via the management page and
> >>> lot's of errors on various management pages.
> >>>
> >>> These and more are listed in the Google doc but I'm not sure when,
> >>> how and by whom the various issues will be fixed. There is a column
> >>> for who will fix what and some additions to that but it seems there's
> >>> quite a way to go before a 1.8 release is likely to be ready. However
> >>> I think the Google doc is working as a way of listing and commenting
> >>> on the issues so would be great if we can continue with that over the
> >>> next
> >> few days.
> >>>
> >>> Cheers
> >>> Ron
> >>>
> >>>
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