[Xerte-dev] Re: SCORM 1.2 export

[Pat L (pgogy)]

you call this - http://php.net/manual/en/function.apache-get-modules.php
and look for mod_rewrite

secret urls only work if you think some one is going to sit and guess play
numbers. Longer google urls are just slightly more obfuscated.


On Tue, Jul 15, 2014 at 12:19 PM, Smith, John <J.J.Smith at gcu.ac.uk> wrote:

> Hi Ron,
>
> I know what you mean but it might be possible, even by having a
> "migrate.php" script similar to upgrade.php which checks that the settings
> on the new server...
>
> I like the idea of having URLs with long ids though but I think the
> problem is that all the references will still be to
> /USER-FILES/xx-yy-Nottingham/media etc so you could always figure out the
> xx-yy part and revert to using /play_xx if it was public. Definitely
> something we could look into when we come to redo the Workspace. I like the
> idea of making it more modular. Pat's done a great job at making it easy to
> add new tabs for example but we could have packages you could add that
> would add code to interact with bitly api for example that would
> automatically get a short URL and qrcode etc... similarly with some of the
> other services...
>
> Regards,
>
> John Smith | Learning Technologist
> Room A250, Govan Mbeki Building | School of Health & Life Sciences |
> Glasgow Caledonian University
> Cowcaddens Road | Glasgow | G4 0BA
>
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> From: xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk [
> xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Ron Mitchell [
> ronm at mitchellmedia.co.uk]
> Sent: 15 July 2014 11:57
> To: 'For Xerte technical developers'
> Subject: [Xerte-dev] Re: SCORM 1.2 export
>
> But then what about upgrades? Or moves from one server to another?
>
> Any changes would obviously need to be backwards compatible.
>
> If we're talking about a todo or wish list I've always liked the idea of
> secret url's as an additional option e.g. the kind of longe url's that
> can't
> be guessed like provided by Google, Drobox, YouTube, Mahara etc. Also a
> built-in url shortener or perhaps an external service e.g. xerte.ly ;-)
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
> [mailto:xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Smith, John
> Sent: 15 July 2014 11:46
> To: For Xerte technical developers
> Subject: [Xerte-dev] Re: SCORM 1.2 export
>
> Cant we detect if rewriting is possible and enable it in setup if it is?
> Then more users could benefit directly from /play_12345 type urls...
>
> Regards,
>
> John Smith | Learning Technologist
> Room A250, Govan Mbeki Building | School of Health & Life Sciences |
> Glasgow
> Caledonian University Cowcaddens Road | Glasgow | G4 0BA
>
> Please address ALL support requests to hlsblt at gcu.ac.uk where one of the
> School Learning Technologists will pick up the job. This will ensure that
> all jobs are completed as promptly as possible.
> ________________________________________
> From: xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
> [xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Julian Tenney
> [Julian.Tenney at nottingham.ac.uk]
> Sent: 15 July 2014 11:45
> To: xerte at pgogywebstuff.com; For Xerte technical developers
> Subject: [Xerte-dev] Re: SCORM 1.2 export
>
> OK, put it on the to do list.
>
> From: xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
> [mailto:xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Pat L
> (pgogy)
> Sent: 15 July 2014 11:43
> To: For Xerte technical developers
> Subject: [Xerte-dev] Re: SCORM 1.2 export
>
> I could see a case for phasing it out in version 3, or writing a very
> hungry
> htaccess rule and modifying the url structure
>
> On Tue, Jul 15, 2014 at 11:31 AM, Smith, John
> <J.J.Smith at gcu.ac.uk<mailto:J.J.Smith at gcu.ac.uk>> wrote:
> I'm just wondering if they over complicate things with little added
> benefit.
> I'm definitely not talking about the external ones which do have added
> value...
>
> Regards,
>
> John Smith | Learning Technologist
> Room A250, Govan Mbeki Building | School of Health & Life Sciences |
> Glasgow
> Caledonian University Cowcaddens Road | Glasgow | G4 0BA
>
> Please address ALL support requests to
> hlsblt at gcu.ac.uk<mailto:hlsblt at gcu.ac.uk> where one of the School Learning
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> completed as promptly as possible.
> ________________________________________
> From:
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> xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nott
> ingham.ac.uk>
> [xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk<mailto:
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> tingham.ac.uk>] On Behalf Of Julian Tenney
> [Julian.Tenney at nottingham.ac.uk<mailto:Julian.Tenney at nottingham.ac.uk>]
> Sent: 15 July 2014 10:06
> To: For Xerte technical developers
> Subject: [Xerte-dev] Re: SCORM 1.2 export
>
> I suppose so. You think it's worth removing the internal ones? I see their
> use for public urls
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk<mailto:
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> sts.nottingham.ac.uk>] On Behalf Of Smith, John
> Sent: 14 July 2014 22:37
> To:
> xerte-dev at lists.nottingham.ac.uk<mailto:xerte-dev at lists.nottingham.ac.uk>
> Subject: [Xerte-dev] Re: SCORM 1.2 export
>
> Like Ron i'm not sure how many people use them as i've only seen a couple
> and from history i've found these rewrite rules to be most useful for
> public
> urls. Seems that we are making heavy use of them for internal urls though
> which seems unnecessary and gives more possibility that the rules will
> break...
>
> Regards
>
> John Smith
> Learning Technologist
> School of Health and Life Sciences
>
> Sent from Samsung Galaxy SII
>
>
> Julian Tenney
> <Julian.Tenney at nottingham.ac.uk<mailto:Julian.Tenney at nottingham.ac.uk>>
> wrote:
>
>
> Cheers. The rules pretty much have worked, so no need to review their
> usefulness, but when they do go wrong, it takes a bit of a lightbulb to get
> from problem to culprit (at least for me).
>
>
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> [xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk<mailto:
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> Sent: 14 July 2014 19:54
> To: 'For Xerte technical developers'
> Subject: [Xerte-dev] Re: SCORM 1.2 export
>
> Sorry haven't had much time but just quickly tested Niko's suggested change
> of order on my install and that does fix the 1.2 export so now all 4 export
> options work and the order of my .htaccess export lines are similar to this
> order:
>
> rewriteRule ^export_local_([0-9]+)$
>
> /toolkits/website_code/php/scorm/export.php?template_id=$1&local=true&scorm=
> false
>
> rewriteRule ^export_local_([0-9]+)?(.*)$
>
> /toolkits/website_code/php/scorm/export.php?template_id=$1&local=true&scorm=
> false&$2
>
> rewriteRule ^export_full_([0-9]+)$
>
> /toolkits/website_code/php/scorm/export.php?full=true&template_id=$1&scorm=f
> alse
>
> rewriteRule ^export_full_([0-9]+)?(.*)$
>
> /toolkits/website_code/php/scorm/export.php?full=true&scorm=false&template_i
> d=$1&$2
>
> rewriteRule ^export_([0-9]+)$
> /toolkits/website_code/php/scorm/export.php?template_id=$1&scorm=false
>
> rewriteRule ^export_([0-9]+)?(.*)$
> /toolkits/website_code/php/scorm/export.php?template_id=$1&scorm=false&$2
>
> rewriteRule ^scorm2004_([0-9]+)$
> /toolkits/website_code/php/scorm/export.php?template_id=$1&scorm=2004
>
> rewriteRule ^scorm2004_([0-9]+)?(.*)$
> /toolkits/website_code/php/scorm/export.php?template_id=$1&scorm=2004&$2
>
> rewriteRule ^scorm_rich_([0-9]+)$
>
> /toolkits/website_code/php/scorm/export.php?template_id=$1&data=rich&scorm=t
> rue
>
> rewriteRule ^scorm_rich_([0-9]+)?(.*)$
>
> /toolkits/website_code/php/scorm/export.php?data=rich&scorm=true&template_id
> =$1&$2
>
> rewriteRule ^scorm_([0-9]+)$
> /toolkits/website_code/php/scorm/export.php?template_id=$1&scorm=true
>
> rewriteRule ^scorm_([0-9]+)?(.*)$
> /toolkits/website_code/php/scorm/export.php?template_id=$1&scorm=true&$2
>
> I can't comment on the htaccess.conf but if it's now the same order as
> above
> then seems correct. To be honest I'm not sure how many installs out there
> even make use of the apache mode setting. You only have to look at the full
> url's of the examples that get shared.
>
> HTH
> Ron
>
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> [mailto:xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk<mailto:
> xerte-dev-bounces at li
> sts.nottingham.ac.uk>] On Behalf Of Julian Tenney
> Sent: 14 July 2014 15:47
> To: For Xerte technical developers
> Subject: [Xerte-dev] Re: SCORM 1.2 export
>
> I've committed a change, but please could someone make sure this is correct
> / sensible etc,
>
> Thanks,
>
> From:
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> [mailto:xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk<mailto:
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> Sent: 14 July 2014 15:45
> To: For Xerte technical developers
> Subject: [Xerte-dev] Re: SCORM 1.2 export
>
> Thanks Niko. We're not sure where this needs to go in setup, so it's
> probably a good idea if someone who does can put it straight,
>
> Thanks,
>
> Julian
>
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> [mailto:xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk<mailto:
> xerte-dev-bounces at li
> sts.nottingham.ac.uk>] On Behalf Of Nikodem Miranowicz
> Sent: 14 July 2014 15:33
> To: For Xerte technical developers
> Subject: [Xerte-dev] Re: SCORM 1.2 export
>
> It seems that the order of rewriteRules in htaccess is responsible for this
> (One can export scorm 2004 but not scorm 1.2).
>
> The order of rules is now:
> rewriteRule ^scorm2004_([0-9]+)?(.*)$
> */website_code/php/scorm/export.php?template_id=$1&scorm=2004&$2
> rewriteRule ^scorm_([0-9]+)?(.*)$
> */website_code/php/scorm/export.php?template_id=$1&scorm=true&$2
> rewriteRule ^scorm_rich_([0-9]+)?(.*)$
> */website_code/php/scorm/export.php?template_id=$1&data=rich&scorm=true&$2
> Where greedy "scorm_([0-9]" apparently spoils "scorm_rich_([0-9]".
>
> My suggestion -
>
> 1.      (tested): change this order (in \setup\htaccess.conf ) to:
> rewriteRule ^scorm2004_([0-9]+)?(.*)$
> */website_code/php/scorm/export.php?template_id=$1&scorm=2004&$2
> rewriteRule ^scorm_rich_([0-9]+)?(.*)$
> */website_code/php/scorm/export.php?template_id=$1&data=rich&scorm=true&$2
> rewriteRule ^scorm_([0-9]+)?(.*)$
> */website_code/php/scorm/export.php?template_id=$1&scorm=true&$2
>
> 2.      or (untested): use [L] flag.
>
> The same should be with lines:
> rewriteRule ^export_...
> rewriteRule ^export_full_...
> rewriteRule ^export_local_...
>
> Niko
>
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> Subject: [Xerte-dev] SCORM 1.2 export
>
> SCORM 1.2 export isn't working here: nothing happens, nothing exports.
>
> Any idea?
>
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