[Xerte-dev] Re: Export Code

Tue May 1 13:30:02 BST 2012

XOT doesn't use zlib (as we didn't have it at Nottingham)

XOT was written to require as few dependencies as possible (Pretty
much any PHP, any MySQL) bar LDAP (sort of) for auth

On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 12:15 PM, Thomas Rochford
<thomas.rochford at jiscadvance.ac.uk> wrote:
> 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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