[Xerte-dev] Re: Export Code
Thomas Rochford
thomas.rochford at jiscadvance.ac.uk
Tue May 1 12:15:16 BST 2012
HI,
Most of my users are certainly on PHP 5+, however I agree that a vote would
be useful. The biggest snag I have come across is that RM, who provide the
JANET (hosting service) do not permit the use of LDAP authentication. My
ISP, Heart Internet - to whom my account has been transferred from my old
provider but not at my request! - won't support ZLIB either. These are both
fairly deadly to Moodle 2.2. and the LDAP issue could be a serious problem
for XoT; I'm not sure if the export code uses ZLIB or not, it's said to
create performance issues.
I have asked JANET(UK) to look into the issue with RM as I believe it could
also affect EduRoam so it makes it difficult for providers to make use of
the service for authenticated sessions.
Kindest regards, Thomas
-----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: 01 May 2012 10:33
To: 'For Xerte technical developers'
Subject: [Xerte-dev] Re: Export Code
Shall we pose the question on the main list and teachers list and other
relevant lists? I created a quick Google form
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?formkey=dHNYMDJmd0VzMlROUl8xLTV
yX1RJb0E6MQ
-----Original Message-----
From: xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
[mailto:xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Julian Tenney
Sent: 01 May 2012 09:45
To: For Xerte technical developers
Subject: [Xerte-dev] Re: Export Code
I'm unsure about PHP5. I know PHP4 is old as old, but as I said, the systems
guys here only just moved to 5, and no doubt there are other places where 4
is installed. What was the reason to move up? Is there a PHP4 compliant
solution?
One of the things with toolkits is about removing barriers. This potentially
creates one, and I don't think it would be an easy ask to get PHP upgraded
just to install toolkits in an institution. I don't have a feel for how many
servers still run PHP4, so I'm unsure.
Shall we vote?
-----Original Message-----
From: xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
[mailto:xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Tom Reijnders
Sent: 30 April 2012 19:24
To: For Xerte technical developers
Subject: [Xerte-dev] Re: Export Code
I don't know who should decide on php 4/5 and yes, at the moment I feel it
is Julian's decision to make.
If PHP 5, I can give you the xwd builder code this week.
The only thing missing really is the user interface, i.e. the possibillity
to choose a 'page' to be added/replaced into a given template. The rest is
there.
Tom
Op 30-4-2012 19:33, Pat Lockley schreef:
> if you use all the files then you can ignore the session variable
>
> On Mon, Apr 30, 2012 at 6:24 PM, Ron
> Mitchell<ronm at mitchellmedia.co.uk>
wrote:
>> You guessed correctly Pat - adding that proved your theory correct e.g.
>> export works, no corrupted zip and languages folder and config
>> included so exported LO plays.
>>
>> That said I was testing the export while logged in so not sure why it
>> wasn't picking up that session.
>>
>> Given the subsequent discussion between you and Tom re all the files
>> should be included it sounds like this won't suffice anyway. If
>> that's the case what's the solution?
>>
>> Tom do you need confirmation from Julian that going with PHP 5.2+ is ok?
>> Also when would we be able to include the xwd builder/rebuilder in
>> the management section?
>>
>> 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: 30 April 2012 17:42
>> To: For Xerte technical developers
>> Subject: [Xerte-dev] Re: Export Code
>>
>> is this export when logged in?
>>
>> I would guess $_SESSION doesn't exist in export as it can be used by
>> people not logged in?
>>
>> put something like
>>
>> if(!isset($_SESSION['default_language'])){
>>
>> $_SESSION['default_language'] = "en-gb"; (or whatever it is)
>>
>> }
>>
>> before the language copy code.
>>
>> On Mon, Apr 30, 2012 at 5:09 PM, Ron
>> Mitchell<ronm at mitchellmedia.co.uk>
>> wrote:
>>> Thanks Pat but no luck so far :-(
>>> Been testing this, commenting out headers lines etc but export
>>> worked fine in terms of not a corrupt zip before Julian added the
following:
>>>
>>> mkdir($dir_path . 'languages');
>>> chmod($dir_path . 'languages', 0777);
>>> array_push($delete_folder_array, $dir_path . 'languages');
>>>
>>>
>>> copy($xerte_toolkits_site->root_file_path .
>>> "languages/language-config.xml", $dir_path .
>>> "languages/language-config.xml");
>>>
>>> array_push($delete_file_array, $dir_path .
>>> "languages/language-config.xml");
>>>
>>>
>>> copy($xerte_toolkits_site->root_file_path . "languages/engine_"
.
>>> $_SESSION['default_language'] . ".xml", $dir_path . "languages/engine_"
.
>>> $_SESSION['default_language'] . ".xml");
>>>
>>> array_push($delete_file_array, $dir_path . "languages/engine_"
.
>>> $_SESSION['default_language'] . ".xml");
>>>
>>> and export also works with the lest two of those lines commented out
e.g.
>>>
>>> //copy($xerte_toolkits_site->root_file_path .
"languages/engine_" .
>>> $_SESSION['default_language'] . ".xml", $dir_path . "languages/engine_"
.
>>> $_SESSION['default_language'] . ".xml");
>>>
>>> //array_push($delete_file_array, $dir_path .
"languages/engine_" .
>>> $_SESSION['default_language'] . ".xml");
>>>
>>> Could the issue be with $_SESSION['default_language']? I tried
>>> removing the session reference and replacing with en-GB but without
>>> success. However with those two lines commented out the export does
>>> include the languages folder just not the engine_en-GB.xml file so
>>> play
>> still doesn't work.
>>> HTH
>>> 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: 30 April 2012 14:13
>>> To: For Xerte technical developers
>>> Subject: [Xerte-dev] Re: Export Code
>>>
>>> it might be in archive - it's not wrong per say - there was one
>>> option with the PHP header settings which broke it in IE and firefox.
>>>
>>> Try commenting out the header lines to see if it changes stuff.
>>>
>>> On Mon, Apr 30, 2012 at 2:11 PM, Ron Mitchell
>>> <ronm at mitchellmedia.co.uk>
>>> wrote:
>>>> Can't find any reference to header in export.php but then can't in
>>>> previous versions either?
>>>> There is reference to header in archive.php but can't spot anything
>>>> wrong with 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: 30 April 2012 13:47
>>>> To: For Xerte technical developers
>>>> Subject: [Xerte-dev] Re: Export Code
>>>>
>>>> in export.php there is a call to a php function called header
>>>>
>>>> whenever a zip is corrupt on export I'd look there.
>>>>
>>>> Compare those calls to the current zip
>>>>
>>>> On Mon, Apr 30, 2012 at 1:45 PM, Ron Mitchell
>>>> <ronm at mitchellmedia.co.uk>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>> Not sure what that means :-( Where do we look/check for 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: 30 April 2012 13:43
>>>>> To: For Xerte technical developers
>>>>> Subject: [Xerte-dev] Re: Export Code
>>>>>
>>>>> have the header calls in PHP changed?
>>>>>
>>>>> On Mon, Apr 30, 2012 at 1:36 PM, Ron Mitchell
>>>>> <ronm at mitchellmedia.co.uk>
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>> Hi Julian
>>>>>>
>>>>>> not sure if you've tried export since updating export.php but I
>>>>>> uploaded to the test server and my local copies and all of them
>>>>>> now generate corrupt zips? Tried Firefox as well as IE so it's
>>>>>> not the old/intermittent IE problem.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> HTH
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Ron
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> From: xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
>>>>>> [mailto:xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of
>>>>>> Julian Tenney
>>>>>> Sent: 30 April 2012 12:09
>>>>>> To: For Xerte technical developers
>>>>>> Subject: [Xerte-dev] Re: Export Code
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Yes, with a dash. I looked it up somewhere, I thought that was
>>>>>> the 'standard' way?
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Why rename $SESSION['default_language']? Seems appropriate..?
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> From: xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
>>>>>> [mailto:xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of
>>>>>> David Goodwin
>>>>>> Sent: 30 April 2012 12:08
>>>>>> To: For Xerte technical developers
>>>>>> Subject: [Xerte-dev] Re: Export Code
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On 30 Apr 2012, at 12:00, Julian Tenney wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> $_SESSION['default_language']
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> It's identical to the directory name in /languages/. E.g. en-GB
>>>>>> (I
>>>> think).
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I've only noticed en_GB (using an underscore) before, but you
>>>>>> seem to use en-GB (using a dash '-')
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> David.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> This would be the string 'en_GB', right?
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> From: xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
>>>>>> [mailto:xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of
>>>>>> David Goodwin
>>>>>> Sent: 30 April 2012 10:43
>>>>>> To: For Xerte technical developers
>>>>>> Subject: [Xerte-dev] Re: Export Code
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On 30 Apr 2012, at 09:02, Julian Tenney wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I re-added the export code I originally added in rev 60 back into
>>>>>> export.php. How to know which language to export? Also, the way
>>>>>> the the engine handles languages is to look in
>>>>>> language-config.php. How to know what is indicated in there?
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> language-config.php ?
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> You could use $_SESSION['default_language'] - although perhaps
>>>>>> this variable needs renaming.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> thanks,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> David.
>>>>>>
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