[Xerte-dev] Re: noob xerte questions

[Pat @ Pgogy]

Hello,

In a past life I wrote a fair bit of the php for XOT.

1) it is two links at the moment - though that might change in future

2) no html5 export - but couldn't see this as being hard to do

3) styles are in website_code/styles - you can set some options via the management page

4) not sure I get the question

5) don't know

Basically the code was written for Nottingham and then open sourced, but it isn't perhaps open source like Drupal or Wordpress in that it has hooks or actions or switches and stuff. Basically it works, but perhaps not in the way you would like it too. Think of it is as Henry Ford Black.

However, slowly in free time and stuff people have added a few more things (internationalisation, bit more modularisation) but it is kinda when people need it themselves. Happy to help people looking to improve the code base though.

Pgogy Webstuff - http://www.pgogywebstuff.com
Makers of web things of a fair to middling quality

On 8 Feb 2013, at 08:57, "Furr A.D." <A.D.Furr at southampton.ac.uk> wrote:

> Hello All,
>  
> I’m new to the list, and also new to xerte so please forgive my ignorance. I’m an experienced PHP developer (and flash) but don’t know my way round xerte…yet.
>  
> I was after some pointers for the following, and searching the archives didn’t yield much. If they’ve been answered elsewhere (as I’m sure they are common queries) then please point me in that direction!
> So on to the questions:
>  
> 1.       Enabling HTMl5 output
> Is the only way to switch on HTML output to rename play_html5.php > play.php and preview_html5.php > preview.php ? Or am I missing an obvious interface.
> 
> 2.       Exporting as HTML5
> Currently the export  process is still as flash – I’m assuming this is coming, or if it’s already there how do I switch it on?
> 
> 3.       Modifying the look and feel (HTML version)
> Like most institutions we’d like to customise the styles somewhat. Are there any guidelines how to do this via the templates folder? I’m proficient in CSS but would simply like to know which key DIVs I need to override to add logos / new colours for the header and footer etc of the output file
> 
> 4.       Custom nav menu?
> Possibly a more advanced query – is there a function to spit out nav menu of the object onto a template? For some projects we’d like to menu to stay up on all pages, and I assume this would require a custom template. I’m hoping there is a php function we can call to spit this out (<ul> list?) onto a page where required.
> 
> 5.       Bookmarking individual pages
> I can’t see an obvious way of bookmarking an individual page within a learning object as its rendered dynamically (Ajax? JS innderDiv?) -  I’m assuming individual page bookmarking isn’t possible, can anyone confirm?
>  
> Thanks in advance – I’m trying to get the University of Southampton on board (mostly there) but allowing customisation would seal the deal.
>  
> Kind regards,
>  
> Alex
>  
> Dr Alex Furr
> 
> eLearning Developer and Consultant
> Centre for Innovation in Technologies and Education
> www.cite.soton.ac.uk
> e: alexfurr at soton.ac.uk
> m: 07779 606934
> 
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