[Xerte-dev] Re: Players and alternative formats

[Pat Lockley]

-- Flash side --

put a radio button in the editor
add an extra parameter to the url generation code (event handler for the
play button)

-- php side --

Edit preview and play .php to check for this new $_GET and then branch

-- .htaccess side --

Mod the reg exp


On Wed, Nov 21, 2012 at 1:37 PM, Julian Tenney <
Julian.Tenney at nottingham.ac.uk> wrote:

> Time is of the essence for the 1.9 drop because we want to get that done
> by 30th November, so I like what you’re saying, but wonder if it can be
> done in time…?****
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> *From:* xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk [mailto:
> xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] *On Behalf Of *Pat Lockley
> *Sent:* 21 November 2012 13:29
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> *To:* For Xerte technical developers
> *Subject:* [Xerte-dev] Re: Players and alternative formats****
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> Well it depends on what we call "now"
>
>
> It's a bit roadmappy, but for 1.9 you'd not have html_play.php and
> play.php, but one play.php which would then switch on the variable set
> (within the module folder).
>
> You'd have an option somewhere of setting "HTML5" somehow (perhaps a radio
> box on the editor?) which would then send a request to set this session to
> be "HTML5" and all previews from then on would be HTML5 mode.
>
> Then you add an extension to the current play rule in htaccess to support
> a "third" variable, so play_560_html would play the template in HTML5 mode.
> In the future, play_560_scorm would do the scorm export. As long as
> play_560_[a-z]+ was handled in the php play code for that module you could
> do whatever you wanted to do.
>
> In theory you could also have preview_560_html as well
>
> It seems neater to me, but this is me speaking from my cave.
>
> Oooh a flint.****
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> On Wed, Nov 21, 2012 at 12:57 PM, Julian Tenney <
> Julian.Tenney at nottingham.ac.uk> wrote:****
>
> I like to generalise solutions too. What would the implications be for
> what we have now?****
>
>  ****
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> *From:* xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk [mailto:
> xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] *On Behalf Of *Pat Lockley
> *Sent:* 21 November 2012 12:43
> *To:* For Xerte technical developers
> *Subject:* [Xerte-dev] Players and alternative formats****
>
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>
> Hello all,
>
> This is a message from deep inside modularisation caves so it might not
> apply to all.
>
> I have a semi working google maps making template, and when it "plays" at
> present it draws a map using the google maps API.
>
> However, the play could also generate a KML file for people to download,
> or if the map couldn't load it could provide the data in a different way.
>
> So then I thought this is effectively the HTML5 option (and you might
> argue the xml download, export, scorm are also "plays").
>
> So I was thinking that rather than using ctrl + click, or extra buttons,
> you could facilitate an extra request variable consistently across modules.
>
> Ergo you post a "HTML5" option at the URL and you get HTML5 back, you post
> a "XML" and get xml, or "JSON" and get json.
>
> This way the URL Library doesn't need to change all the time, or the
> .htaccess, but you also get different plays for each module (and they are
> all distinct).
>
> Thoughts?
>
> Pat****
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