[Xerte] XOT installation problems

[Nicolas Dunand]

Hi,

After some time trying to install the Xerte Online Toolkits on a (public) web server, I keep hitting the wall. The HTML output keeps throwing PHP errors and warnings. These seem to prevent the code to execute properly.

Some of these PHP error messages or warnings made me look into the PHP code. There, I discovered some problems, in particular in /edit.php (function update_access_time) : the global variable $xerte_toolkits_site is being used, but without calling it before (using PHP's "global" keyword). This used to throw a PHP warning, until I fixed it adding "global $xerte_toolkits_site" at the beginning of the function. I did this a few other times, but I can't remember exactly where.

So my questions are :

- Am I using the last available version ? (I just downloaded it again for the web site http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/xerte/ a couple weeks ago ... )
- Am I doing something wrong (are there some more complete instructions I missed ?)

I like very much what we could do with XOT, but I would just like to correct these points (i.e., error messages showing on some pages, and application simply malfunctioning some times) before I can propose it for use to my teachers.


Any help would be greatly appreciated.