[Xerte-dev] Re: problem with trunk and added slashes?

Tom Reijnders reijnders at tor.nl
Sun Aug 25 20:36:35 BST 2013


Ron,

Gayan's problem is now solved, but not really the solution I wanted. 
magic_quotes is obsolete, so I want to find where the slashes came from 
in the first place.

Tom

Op 22-8-2013 11:23, Ron Mitchell schreef:
>
> Hi Tom
>
> prompted by the latest message on the Xerte list from RGN Meegama 
> (Gayan) attached I did a quick search for our previous discussion 
> about strip slashes below. I haven't had time to investigate this but 
> I wonder if the message from Gayan indicates why this hasn't been a 
> problem for everyone e.g. only materialises when Moodle integration is 
> used and even then perhaps only with a particular stripslashes 
> setting? I've avoided upgrading any installations until I can find 
> time to investigate and test this properly and I still don't have time 
> to investigate now but I wonder if this helps to point you to the 
> cause/solution? I know this is going to raise the old issue about 
> compatibility with 3rd party applications but as I'm sure you also 
> appreciate the fact remains in my experience next to ldap, Moodle is 
> the next most popular solution for xot account management.
>
> Cheers
>
> Ron
>
> *From:*xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk 
> [mailto:xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] *On Behalf Of *Tom 
> Reijnders
> *Sent:* 20 June 2013 23:04
> *To:* For Xerte technical developers
> *Subject:* [Xerte-dev] Re: problem with trunk and added slashes?
>
> The fact that not all people have control over this was the reason for 
> the fix. The old code called stripslashes regardless of the settings 
> resulting in backslashes being removed from prior escapes and LaTeX 
> expressions.
>
> But given your settings, I don't understand where the slashes as 
> coming from.
>
> Tom
>
> Ron Mitchell <ronm at mitchellmedia.co.uk 
> <mailto:ronm at mitchellmedia.co.uk>> schreef:
>
> Hi Tom
>
> sorry for the delayed response been at an event all day and only just 
> on the train home. Magic quotes settins are as follows:
>
> magic_quotes_gpc Off Off
>
> magic_quotes_runtime Off Off
>
> magic_quotes_sybase Off Off
>
> But this has been the case previously too when this wasn't a problem. 
> I have full control over this server which has 3 separate xot 
> installations so I could change the magic quotes settings but lots of 
> people obviously won't have control over that e.g. on share d hosting etc
>
> HTH
>
> Ron
>
> *From:*xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk 
> <mailto:xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk> 
> [mailto:xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] *On Behalf Of *Tom 
> Reijnders
> *Sent:* 20 June 2013 07:52
> *To:* For Xerte technical developers
> *Subject:* [Xerte-dev] Re: problem with trunk and added slashes?
>
> It has probable caused by r958 (2.0) and r956(trunk). What are your 
> magic_quote settings in php.ini?
>
> Tom
>
> Op 19-6-2013 18:40, Ron Mitchell schreef:
>
>     Hi all
>
>     I just replied to a message from John where I've already mentioned
>     this but thought I should start a new thread too as this may be
>     unrelated to the main focus of that other thread...
>
>     I updated a test install with the latest code from trunk and
>     notice that as soon as I edited and published an LO it was adding
>     extra slashes and thefore breaking preview/play. Here's some
>     sample xml showing the slashes that got added to both preview.xml
>     and data.xml
>
>     <learningObject resume=\"true\" language=\"en-GB\" name=\"Learning
>     Object Title\" navigation=\"Linear\" textSize=\"12\"
>     displayMode=\"default\">
>
>                 <title linkID=\"PG1371648227672\" name=\"Enter Page
>     Title\" size=\"30\"><![CDATA[Enter title here]]></title>
>
>                 <textGraphics hidePanel=\"true\"
>     linkID=\"PG1361433467001\" name=\"Enter Page Title\"
>     align=\"Left\" imagesize=\"full screen\" url=\"FileLocation +
>     \'media/800_x_516.jpg\'\" tip=\"Enter a Tooltip\"
>     transcriptbuttonlabel=\"Transcript\"><![CDATA[Enter text for the
>     page here]]></textGraphics>
>
>                 <textGraphics linkID=\"PG1359043029659\" name=\"Enter
>     Page Title\" align=\"Left\" imagesize=\"full screen\"
>     url=\"FileLocation + \'media/xpert_logo.gif\'\" tip=\"Enter a
>     Tooltip\" transcriptbuttonlabel=\"Transcript\"><![CDATA[Enter text
>     for the page here]]></textGraphics>
>
>           </learningObject>
>
>     I updated an install that was already version 2 but still quite a
>     few revisions applied so not sure what revision is causing this
>     but I reverted the code fixed the xml from my test project and all
>     was fine. Re-applied the code and problem returned.
>
>     Any ideas?
>
>     HTH
>     Cheers
>
>     Ron
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