[Xerte] Re: Shibbolising XOT

[Smith, John]

I'd advise NOT altering the core files (you will then run into upgrade probs in the future for one) but looking in \library\Xerte\Authentication and creating a new Shibboleth authentication class that is abstracted out and should then be able to just slot in...

Then it should only be a case of adding a new authentication method to auth_config

Regards,

John Smith | Learning Technologist
Room A251, Govan Mbeki Building | School of Health & Life Sciences | Glasgow Caledonian University
Cowcaddens Road | Glasgow | G4 0BA
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From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk [xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Bruce Jackson [bj1 at soas.ac.uk]
Sent: 22 July 2013 10:04
To: xerte at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
Subject: [Xerte] Shibbolising XOT

Hello,

We're trying to get Shibboleth working as a method of authentication here.

From a thread on this forum back in November 2010 (http://lists.nottingham.ac.uk/pipermail/xerte/2010-November/007360.html), and from reading the comments in the integration.txt file, it appears it should be a fairly simple case of editing integration.txt to set the three variables ($_SESSION['toolkits_firstname'], $_SESSION['toolkits_surname'] and $_SESSION['toolkits_logon_username']) to values obtained from the Shibboleth IdP, adding a call "session_start()" at the beginning of the script, and then renaming integration.txt to be index.php.

When I do that and try to log in, the page I get back appears to have a chunk of html missing at the start - see below.
Should I be copying parts of the standard index.php script into the integration.txt version?

Returned html:

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<script type="text/javascript"> // JAVASCRIPT library for fixed variables
 // management of javascript is set up here
 // SITE SETTINGS
var site_url = "http://lamp1.lis.soas.ac.uk/xerte/";
var site_apache = "false";
var properties_ajax_php_path = "website_code/php/properties/";
 var management_ajax_php_path = "website_code/php/management/";
 var ajax_php_path = "website_code/php/";
<div class="folder" id="folder_workspace" ondblclick="folder_open_close(this)" onclick="highlight_main_toggle(this)"><p><img style="vertical-align:middle" src="http://lamp1.lis.soas.ac.uk/xerte//website_code/images/folder_workspace.gif" />Workspace</p></div><div id="folderchild_workspace" class="workspace"><div id="file_5" class="file" preview_size="800,665" editor_size="800,665" style="padding-left:20px" onmousedown="single_click(this);file_folder_click_pause(event)" onmouseup="file_drag_stop(event,this)"><img src="http://lamp1.lis.soas.ac.uk/xerte//website_code/images/Icon_Page.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" />BJProj</div><div id="file_6" class="file" preview_size="800,665" editor_size="800,665" style="padding-left:20px" onmousedown="single_click(this);file_folder_click_pause(event)" onmouseup="file_drag_stop(event,this)"><img src="http://lamp1.lis.soas.ac.uk/xerte//website_code/images/Icon_Page.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" />BJProj</div></div><div class="folder" id="recyclebin" ondblclick="folder_open_close(this)" onclick="highlight_main_toggle(this)"><p><img id="folder_recyclebin" style="vertical-align:middle" src="http://lamp1.lis.soas.ac.uk/xerte//website_code/images/rb_empty.gif" />Recycle Bin</p></div><div id="folderchild_recyclebin" class="folder_content"></div><div class="template" onmouseover="this.style.backgroundColor='#ebedf3'" onmouseout="this.style.backgroundColor='#fff'"><div class="template_icon"></div><div class="template_desc"><p class="template_name">Bootstrap Template</p><p class="template_desc_p">A responsive template for delivering content to all devices.<br><button type="button" class="xerte_button" onclick="javascript:template_toggle('site')">Create</button></div><div id="site" class="rename"><span>Enter a name for this project</span><form action="javascript:create_tutorial('site')" method="post" enctype="text/plain"><input type="text" width="200" id="filename" name="filename" /><br /><button type="submit" class="xerte_button" >Create Project</button></form></div></div><div class="template" onmouseover="this.style.backgroundColor='#ebedf3'" onmouseout="this.style.backgroundColor='#fff'"><div class="template_icon"></div><div class="template_desc"><p class="template_name">Xerte Online Toolkit</p><p class="template_desc_p">A flexible template for creating interactive learning objects.<br><button type="button" class="xerte_button" onclick="javascript:template_toggle('Nottingham')">Create</button></div><div id="Nottingham" class="rename"><span>Enter a name for this project</span><form action="javascript:create_tutorial('Nottingham')" method="post" enctype="text/plain"><input type="text" width="200" id="filename" name="filename" /><br /><button type="submit" class="xerte_button" >Create Project</button></form></div></div><div class="template" onmouseover="this.style.backgroundColor='#ebedf3'" onmouseout="this.style.backgroundColor='#fff'"><div class="template_icon"></div><div class="template_desc"><p class="template_name">RSS Feed</p><p class="template_desc_p">Easily create and maintain an RSS Feed.<br><button type="button" class="xerte_button" onclick="javascript:template_toggle('Rss')">Create</button></div><div id="Rss" class="rename"><span>Enter a name for this project</span><form action="javascript:create_tutorial('Rss')" method="post" enctype="text/plain"><input type="text" width="200" id="filename" name="filename" /><br /><button type="submit" class="xerte_button" >Create Project</button></form></div></div>
</body>
</html>


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Thanks in advance for any help.

Cheers,

Bruce

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