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

Sun Aug 25 21:15:34 BST 2013

Hi Tom

yes I thought the same - turning magic_quotes on isn't really the answer and
for instance on the Techdis server magic_quotes has always been off and this
hasn't been a problem until whatever the code change was when this started.
I've actually been testing a bit after Gayan's recent message and with the
latest unstable download from xerte.org.uk the following applies:

Same server, same code with guest auth enabled and crucially no moodle
itegration path set all is fine.

Same server, same code even with guest auth rather than moodle auth set the
problem happens if a moodle integration path is set.

Could there be a duplicate function name or variable name causing this? Or
is there a way of checking if an integration path is set and if so skipping
the relevant code?

HTH

Ron

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[mailto:xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Tom Reijnders
Sent: 25 August 2013 20:37
To: For Xerte technical developers
Subject: [Xerte-dev] Re: problem with trunk and added slashes?

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magic_quotes is obsolete, so I want to find where the slashes came from in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

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[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> 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] 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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