[Xerte-dev] Re: Export Code

[Ron Mitchell]

<bug>
spoke to soon re the moodle integration! :-(

Opening, editing, publishing existing projects seems to work fine but when
creating a new project all seems fine until closing the editor. The
workspace appears empty until refresh when all the existing projects then
re-appear but not the newly created project. However this is being created
in the user-files directory so I'm guessing it's not being added to the
database but will check that next. Even so not sure why the workspace
appears empty on closing the editor until refresh. Here's a quick screencast
showing all this
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1388941/xot18_beta_moodle_integration_problem.mp4

David - can you advise?

-----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 21:51
To: 'For Xerte technical developers'
Subject: [Xerte-dev] Re: Export Code

<snip/>
> 1. Moodle (no XOT login page will be shown; Ron has apparently tested
this).<

I've updated the test install tonight with all the latest files from the XOT
svn so this is now using the new method of moodle integration rather than
the old method. I've also updated readme_moodlepatch.txt to cover how to
enable and use this method of moodle integration. All (moodle
authentication) seems to be working fine as far as I can tell and no longer
requires any different files like the previous moodle patch did.

Ron

-----Original Message-----
From: xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
[mailto:xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of David Goodwin
Sent: 01 May 2012 13:16
To: thomas.rochford at jiscadvance.ac.uk; For Xerte technical developers
Subject: [Xerte-dev] Re: Export Code

<snip/>

> 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.
> 



As of Sunday, XOT's trunk can authenticate against :

1. Moodle (no XOT login page will be shown; Ron has apparently tested this).

2. A static predefined list (See library/Xerte/Authetication/Static.php)

3. A database (see library/Xerte/Authentication/Db.php for hints/docs) (not
yet tested)

4. LDAP (See library/Xerte/Authentication/Ldap.php)

5 Have no authentication - i.e. guest user access (See
library/Xerte/Authentication/Guest.php) - no login page will be shown; this
is the default behaviour ATM.


To specify which, edit config.php - to define
$xerte_toolkits_site->authentication_method (I think).

It would be fairly trivial to add in e.g. a POP3 validator if required - or
write your own custom one.

I'm toying with the idea of removing the dependency on MySQL and allowing
XOT to use SQLite - which would make demo/test deployment a lot easier (no
need for a database, no need for authentication - just upload to a PHP
server and it would just work as a guest user) . but I'm not sure yet. I
suspect there are quite a few mysql_query's I've not removed from the code
base.

Thanks
David.



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