[Xerte-dev] Re: testing upgrade

[Pat Lockley]

what is in the zip on the site?

On Fri, Jul 13, 2012 at 9:43 AM, Ron Mitchell <ronm at mitchellmedia.co.uk> wrote:
> I'd agree except that more recent versions of xot demo.txt had guest2 so it
> seems to me that there are less likely to be issues for those using 1.7 and
> more recent versions to change the 1.8 code to also use guest2.
>
> If there's not an easy way to check for this and change what is used
> dynamically my suggestion is that we change 1.8 to use guest2 and add a note
> somewhere for those using much earlier versions. Especially as we need a
> note for earlier versions anyway about running upgrade.php
>
> -----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: 13 July 2012 09:34
> To: For Xerte technical developers
> Subject: [Xerte-dev] Re: testing upgrade
>
> I can't help much on this as I don't know how the new authentication works,
> but guest makes more sense than guest2
>
> If it was up to me, I'd not want demo.txt users to upgrade really, think
> that'll get painful.
>
> On Fri, Jul 13, 2012 at 9:31 AM, Ron Mitchell <ronm at mitchellmedia.co.uk>
> wrote:
>> Hi
>>
>> I tested upgrading some older localhost xampp installations yesterday e.g.
>> by dragging 1.8 code over the top of the earlier version and also
>> running upgrade.php
>>
>> As far as tests so far this seems to work fine but I did notice there
>> had been a change in demo.txt at some point which could cause problems
>> for those upgrading a xampp install. I guess this might be a question
>> for Pat and a judgement call as to what to use for the guest account
> username....
>>
>>
>>
>> 1. At some point in demo.txt $_SESSION['toolkits_logon_username'] =
>> "guest"; was changed to $_SESSION['toolkits_logon_username'] =
>> "guest2"; and the current 1.7 zip download has
>> $_SESSION['toolkits_logon_username'] = "guest2";
>>
>>
>>
>> 2. The xot1.8 code in /library/Xerte/Authentication/Guest.php sets
>> guest as the username e.g.
>>
>> public function getUsername() {
>>
>>         return 'guest';
>>
>>     }
>>
>>
>>
>> 3. The reason this is relevant is that at the moment if someone
>> upgrades a xampp 1.7 install which is using demo.txt code rather than
>> switch.txt code they won't see their previous projects. Solution for
>> that would be to change Guest.php to use guest2 rather than guest.
>> However in older versions and I'm not sure exactly when the username
>> in demo.txt was guest rather than guest2 so upgrading these works fine.
>>
>>
>>
>> Questions:
>>
>> a) Should we change the 1.8 code to use guest2? e.g. will work ok for
>> more recent installs and perhaps add a note about changing this for
>> older installs
>>
>> b) Or should we leave 1.8 code as guest and add a note about changing
>> this for more recent installs?
>>
>> c) Or is there a way we can check for in the code and use guest or
>> guest2 accordingly?
>>
>>
>>
>> HTH
>>
>> Ron
>>
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