[Xerte-dev] Re: 2.1 stable, onbeforeunload and Déjà vu?

Pat (Pgogy) info at pgogywebstuff.com
Fri Feb 13 10:49:52 GMT 2015


I think the onbeforeunload does something with lockfiles - so it might 
need to be replaced with another action if it is removed

If the LDAP is returning no username - then the database contents will 
look odd - what does the user table look like?

On 2015-02-13 05:45, Julian Tenney wrote:
>> 1. How best to remove the rougue onbeforeunload="javascript:logout()"
> from 2.1? I could commit the change direct to 2.1
> 
> I think that's the best way if it is still there.
> 
> I don't know about the ldap issues I'm afraid.
> 
> FROM: xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
> [mailto:xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] ON BEHALF OF Ron
> Mitchell
> SENT: 13 February 2015 10:43
> TO: 'For Xerte technical developers'
> SUBJECT: [Xerte-dev] 2.1 stable, onbeforeunload and Déjà vu?
> 
> Hi all
> 
> I know we've discussed this sort of thing before but doesn't seem easy
> to locate and track back through specific steps but anyway case in
> point…
> 
> You may have noticed I responded to the question and thread on the
> community site re moodle integration and helped Jayne get things
> working including I think the last issue about logout not working. She
> hasn't replied and confirmed yet but it seems very likely that the
> problem with logout is the unecessary
> onbeforeunload="javascript:logout()" in index.php which I'm pretty
> sure we've worked through and discussed here before as well as Julian
> replying to a previous mention of this on the community forums.
> 
> I don't personally find it easy to navigate the commits to spot
> changes in each branch etc and so not sure whether the rogue code has
> ever been removed from 2.1 or removed and somehow crept back. Also I
> seem to recall that Julian orginally added that code to try to resolve
> a firefox issue but not sure what the final result of that was except
> that leaving it in causes more problems than it fixes. I did an
> install of 2.1 earlier this week and with hindsight noticed the issue
> then too but because of an issue with the latest 2.1 and ldap (another
> story see below) reverted to an earlier 2.1 revision which must have
> had that code removed. So a few questions:
> 
> 1. How best to remove the rougue onbeforeunload="javascript:logout()"
> from 2.1? I could commit the change direct to 2.1 but not sure that's
> the best way e.g. it's already removed from develop but obviously
> develop isn't ready for production use.
> 
> 2. Are there other differences like this e.g. later changes that
> aren't related to the new editor but only in later branches and not in
> 2.1?
> 
> 3. I did an install of the latest 2.1 revision earlier this week and
> had problems when it came to ldap. Login was working but project
> folders weren't being created with the username included so breaking.
> I ended up replace the install with an older revision which worked
> immediately. There wasn't time to unpick the differences but just
> wondering if anyone recognises that issue with LDAP and which commit
> is relevant?
> 
> Cheers
> 
> Ron
> 
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> attempt bounced :-(
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