[Xerte-dev] Re: testing upgrade

Ron Mitchell ronm at mitchellmedia.co.uk
Fri Jul 13 10:02:50 BST 2012


>> 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";

-----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 09:50
To: For Xerte technical developers
Subject: [Xerte-dev] Re: testing upgrade

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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