[Xerte-dev] Re: testing upgrade

[Pat Lockley]

I'm really not that fussed, so guest2 it is.

On Fri, Jul 13, 2012 at 10:26 AM, Ron Mitchell <ronm at mitchellmedia.co.uk> wrote:
> I think we're overcomplicating this - what's the problem with using guest2?
> It what's been there for about 2 years as far as I can tell!
>
> On the subject of installation documentation it needs updating anyway - I
> could undertake to do that but I think it's your baby Pat - do you want to
> do that?
>
> -----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: 13 July 2012 10:16
> To: For Xerte technical developers
> Subject: [Xerte-dev] Re: testing upgrade
>
> You could make a new XAMPP for 1.8, but that's new documentation
>
> On Fri, Jul 13, 2012 at 10:13 AM, Julian Tenney
> <Julian.Tenney at nottingham.ac.uk> wrote:
>> Would it be easy to just do xampp install into /xertetoolkits18 and
>> create a
>> xertetoolkits18 database? Then you'd end up with two installations for
>> the different versions, but nothing would screw up.
>>
>>
>>
>> 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 July 2012 09:32
>>
>>
>> To: 'For Xerte technical developers'
>> Subject: [Xerte-dev] testing upgrade
>>
>>
>>
>> Hi
>>
>> I tested upgrading some older localhost xampp installations yesterday e.g.
>> by dragging 1.8 code over the top of the earlier version and also
>> running upgrade.php
>>
>> As far as tests so far this seems to work fine but I did notice there
>> had been a change in demo.txt at some point which could cause problems
>> for those upgrading a xampp install. I guess this might be a question
>> for Pat and a judgement call as to what to use for the guest account
> username....
>>
>>
>>
>> 1. At some point in demo.txt $_SESSION['toolkits_logon_username'] =
>> "guest"; was changed to $_SESSION['toolkits_logon_username'] =
>> "guest2"; and the current 1.7 zip download has
>> $_SESSION['toolkits_logon_username'] = "guest2";
>>
>>
>>
>> 2. The xot1.8 code in /library/Xerte/Authentication/Guest.php sets
>> guest as the username e.g.
>>
>> public function getUsername() {
>>
>>         return 'guest';
>>
>>     }
>>
>>
>>
>> 3. The reason this is relevant is that at the moment if someone
>> upgrades a xampp 1.7 install which is using demo.txt code rather than
>> switch.txt code they won't see their previous projects. Solution for
>> that would be to change Guest.php to use guest2 rather than guest.
>> However in older versions and I'm not sure exactly when the username
>> in demo.txt was guest rather than guest2 so upgrading these works fine.
>>
>>
>>
>> Questions:
>>
>> a) Should we change the 1.8 code to use guest2? e.g. will work ok for
>> more recent installs and perhaps add a note about changing this for
>> older installs
>>
>> b) Or should we leave 1.8 code as guest and add a note about changing
>> this for more recent installs?
>>
>> c) Or is there a way we can check for in the code and use guest or
>> guest2 accordingly?
>>
>>
>>
>> HTH
>>
>> Ron
>>
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