[Xerte-dev] Re: testing and tracking issues with XOT 1.8 beta
Ron Mitchell
ronm at mitchellmedia.co.uk
Fri Apr 20 17:58:29 BST 2012
Thanks Pat that's great. I've uploaded your changes and the sharing now
appears to be working correctly without errors.
Tested switch and that's working too!
Cheers
Ron
-----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: 20 April 2012 17:43
To: For Xerte technical developers
Subject: [Xerte-dev] Re: testing and tracking issues with XOT 1.8 beta
Some one had made preview.php not work - changed a parameter to something it
wasn't supposed to be. Now fixed.
Also fixed switch.txt and modifed a lot of the file update code (including
some changes that aren't mine and broke stuff)
On Fri, Apr 20, 2012 at 3:52 PM, Ron Mitchell <ronm at mitchellmedia.co.uk>
wrote:
> not in modules/xerte/preview.php but in preview.php in the root I can
> see there's a require to template_status.php where that function exists.
>
>
>
> From: xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
> [mailto:xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Pat
> Lockley
> Sent: 20 April 2012 15:21
>
>
> To: For Xerte technical developers
> Subject: [Xerte-dev] Re: testing and tracking issues with XOT 1.8 beta
>
>
>
> Is there an is shares template? Function call
>
> On 20 Apr 2012, at 15:09, "Ron Mitchell" <ronm at mitchellmedia.co.uk> wrote:
>
> extract
> //////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
> /////////////////////
>
> function show_preview_code($row, $row_username){
>
>
>
> global $xerte_toolkits_site;
>
>
>
> /*
>
> * Format the XML strings to provide data to the engine
>
> */
>
>
>
> if(!file_exists($xerte_toolkits_site->users_file_area_short
.
> $row['template_id'] . "-" . $row_username['username'] . "-" .
> $row['template_name'] . "/preview.xml")){
>
>
>
> $buffer =
> file_get_contents($xerte_toolkits_site->users_file_area_short .
> $row['template_id'] . "-" . $row_username['username'] . "-" .
> $row['template_name'] . "/data.xml");
>
>
>
> $fp =
> fopen($xerte_toolkits_site->users_file_area_short . $row['template_id'] .
> "-" . $row_username['username'] . "-" . $row['template_name'] .
> "/preview.xml","x");
>
> fwrite($fp, $buffer);
>
> fclose($fp);
>
>
>
> }
>
>
>
> $string_for_flash_xml =
> $xerte_toolkits_site->users_file_area_short . $row['template_id'] . "-" .
> $row_username['username'] . "-" . $row['template_name'] . "/preview.xml" .
> "?time=" . time();
>
>
>
> $string_for_flash =
> $xerte_toolkits_site->users_file_area_short . $row['template_id'] . "-" .
> $row_username['username'] . "-" . $row['template_name'] . "/";
>
> extract
> //////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
> /////////////////////
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> From: xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
> [mailto:xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Pat
> Lockley
> Sent: 20 April 2012 15:04
> To: For Xerte technical developers
> Subject: [Xerte-dev] Re: testing and tracking issues with XOT 1.8 beta
>
>
>
> Not on pc
>
>
>
> What is the path variable made from?
>
> On 20 Apr 2012, at 14:58, "Ron Mitchell" <ronm at mitchellmedia.co.uk> wrote:
>
> Assuming that you mean modules/xerte/preview.php see attached.
>
>
>
> Presumably somewhere $row_username['username'] get's passed the owner
> ID when it's a shared project?
>
>
>
> From: xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
> [mailto:xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Pat
> Lockley
> Sent: 20 April 2012 14:47
> To: For Xerte technical developers
> Subject: [Xerte-dev] Re: testing and tracking issues with XOT 1.8 beta
>
>
>
> No, what is in the code
>
> On 20 Apr 2012, at 14:38, "Ron Mitchell" <ronm at mitchellmedia.co.uk> wrote:
>
> Do you mean what happens when clicking preview?
>
> The error below
>
>
>
> Warning:
> file_get_contents(USER-FILES/31-patrick.lockley at googlemail.com-Notting
> ham/da
> ta.xml): failed to open stream: No such file or directory in
> /var/www/vle/xot/modules/xerte/preview.php on line 35 Warning:
>
fopen(USER-FILES/31-patrick.lockley at googlemail.com-Nottingham/preview.xml):
> failed to open stream: No such file or directory in
> /var/www/vle/xot/modules/xerte/preview.php on line 37 Warning:
> fwrite() expects parameter 1 to be resource, boolean given in
> /var/www/vle/xot/modules/xerte/preview.php on line 38 Warning:
> fclose() expects parameter 1 to be resource, boolean given in
> /var/www/vle/xot/modules/xerte/preview.php on line 39
>
>
>
>
> Followed by the preloader trying to load the xml but obviously not
> finding it.
>
>
>
> From: xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
> [mailto:xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Pat
> Lockley
> Sent: 20 April 2012 14:21
> To: For Xerte technical developers
> Subject: [Xerte-dev] Re: testing and tracking issues with XOT 1.8 beta
>
>
>
> What does modules/preview.php show
>
> On 20 Apr 2012, at 14:08, "Ron Mitchell" <ronm at mitchellmedia.co.uk> wrote:
>
> You are user 10!
>
>
>
> It seems like when the shared editor (in this case you) tries to
> preview the LO the code is looking in your user-files folder rather
> than the owner's e.g. mine.
>
>
>
> Whereas in previous versions it correctly looks in the owner's folder.
>
>
>
> From: xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
> [mailto:xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Pat
> Lockley
> Sent: 20 April 2012 13:52
> To: For Xerte technical developers
> Subject: [Xerte-dev] Re: testing and tracking issues with XOT 1.8 beta
>
>
>
> No, that. Who is user 10?
>
> On 20 Apr 2012, at 12:11, "Ron Mitchell" <ronm at mitchellmedia.co.uk> wrote:
>
> Do you mean the following?
>
>
>
> Click here to add this user
>
>
>
> javascript:share_this_template('31', '10')
>
>
>
> or somewhere else?
>
>
>
> From: xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
> [mailto:xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Pat
> Lockley
> Sent: 20 April 2012 11:55
> To: For Xerte technical developers
> Subject: [Xerte-dev] Re: testing and tracking issues with XOT 1.8 beta
>
>
>
> Hover over the share link and note the parameters?
>
> On 20 Apr 2012, at 11:42, "Ron Mitchell" <ronm at mitchellmedia.co.uk> wrote:
>
> Hi Pat
>
> apologies for the delayed response but I wanted to test this on a pre
> 1.8 install to verify what happens...
>
>
>
> In a pre 1.8 installation if I share an LO with another user when that
> user clicks preview it loads preview.xml from my lo folder e.g.
> USER-FILES/31-ronm-Nottingham/preview.xml?time=1334918728
>
>
>
> In this current 1.8 beta if I share an LO with your account and then
> you try to preview that LO it's looking at
> USER-FILES/31-patrick.lockley at googlemail.com-Nottingham/preview.xml?ti
> me=1334918794
>
>
>
> So unless the way this works has changed (?) it seems like the preview
> code is looking in the wrong place e.g. the shared user account rather
> than the owner account. In the example below
> USER-FILES/31-ronm-Nottingham/preview.xml exists but
> USER-FILES/31-patrick.lockley at googlemail.com-Nottingham/preview.xml
> doesn't but I'm not sure it should? Is the wrong username being passed
somewhere?
>
>
>
> Cheers
>
> Ron
>
>
>
> From: xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
> [mailto:xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Pat
> Lockley
> Sent: 20 April 2012 09:44
> To: For Xerte technical developers
> Subject: [Xerte-dev] Re: testing and tracking issues with XOT 1.8 beta
>
>
>
> Is the file there?
>
> On Friday, April 20, 2012, Ron Mitchell wrote:
>
> Hi Pat
> it seems I spoke to soon when saying the sharing functionality is
> fixed :-( It is fixed in terms of owners are now able to share access
> with other users but it seems those other users get an error when trying
to preview the LO.
> I've shared a very simple LO with your account (just has a title page)
> and you'll see that when you try to preview you'll get the following
errors:
>
> Warning:
> file_get_contents(USER-FILES/31-patrick.lockley at googlemail.com-Notting
> ham/da
> ta.xml): failed to open stream: No such file or directory in
> /var/www/vle/xot/modules/xerte/preview.php on line 35 Warning:
>
fopen(USER-FILES/31-patrick.lockley at googlemail.com-Nottingham/preview.xml):
> failed to open stream: No such file or directory in
> /var/www/vle/xot/modules/xerte/preview.php on line 37 Warning:
> fwrite() expects parameter 1 to be resource, boolean given in
> /var/www/vle/xot/modules/xerte/preview.php on line 38 Warning:
> fclose() expects parameter 1 to be resource, boolean given in
> /var/www/vle/xot/modules/xerte/preview.php on line 39
>
> Jonathan also reported the same issue with an LO I shared with quite a
> few accounts and obviously this hasn't been a problem with previous
> versions. Is it another mangle as a result of the svn merge? Is there a
fix?
>
> Cheers
> Ron
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
> [mailto:xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Ron
> Mitchell
> Sent: 19 April 2012 19:59
> To: 'For Xerte technical developers'
> Subject: [Xerte-dev] Re: testing and tracking issues with XOT 1.8 beta
>
> Hi Pat
> thanks for the code updates and regarding convention with the fields
> feel free to change the category column or let me know what you feel
> they should be.
>
> I've uploaded your code updates and the project sharing is definitely
> fixed now but I can't verify the management page fixes because the
> management.php page is now showing a blank screen? Any ideas on that?
>
> Ron
>
> -----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: 19 April 2012 19:18
> To: For Xerte technical developers
> Subject: [Xerte-dev] Re: testing and tracking issues with XOT 1.8 beta
>
> Could we get some convention with the fields - some stuff is PHP, some
> stuff is referencing a page - it's a bit messed up.
>
> On Thu, Apr 19, 2012 at 5:31 PM, Ron Mitchell
> <ronm at mitchellmedia.co.uk>
> wrote:
>> Hi all
>> thanks to those who have been testing the XOT 1.8 beta via the JISC
>> Techdis installation and recording issues via the Google doc we have
>> set
> up.
>>
>> The list of items in the Google doc has increased dramatically since
>> I shared that this morning but for obvious reasons please don't share
>> the link to that via this list. If anyone else on the dev list
>> reading this is keen to get involved in testing and better still
>> fixing please contact me off-list to send you details.
>>
>> The Google doc is just an initial way of sharing test results and I
>> guess key bugs will be transferred to the google code issue tracker.
>>
>> The categories of issues have grown but for me there are some
>> immediate issues categorised as php/website code issues e.g. can't
>> share a project, can't save anything via the management page and
>> lot's of errors on various management pages.
>>
>> These and more are listed in the Google doc but I'm not sure when,
>> how and by whom the various issues will be fixed. There is a column
>> for who will fix what and some additions to that but it seems there's
>> quite a way to go before a 1.8 release is likely to be ready. However
>> I think the Google doc is working as a way of listing and commenting
>> on the issues so would be great if we can continue with that over the
>> next
> few days.
>>
>> Cheers
>> Ron
>>
>>
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