[Xerte-dev] Re: Possible issue with paths that might need resolving

[Pat @ Pgogy]

Not sure, must be a reason it was set that way

On 19 Jun 2013, at 09:28, Julian Tenney <Julian.Tenney at nottingham.ac.uk> wrote:

>> Not sure why the video player skin is a full path - try making it relative and see what happens I guess?
> Does it matter?
> 
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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 @ Pgogy 
> Sent: 18 June 2013 23:09
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> Subject: [Xerte-dev] Re: Possible issue with paths that might need resolving
> 
> Is this a trunk install or a zip install?
> 
> In the trunk, then site inherits from xerte and so is fine - this way code doesn't need to be duplicated because it knows the use the other bits.
> 
> The upload path is relative to the engine, so it is augmented with file names and so on.
> 
> Not sure why the video player skin is a full path - try making it relative and see what happens I guess?
> 
> On 18 Jun 2013, at 22:24, "Smith, John" <J.J.Smith at gcu.ac.uk> wrote:
> 
>> Hi Pat/Julian,
>> 
>> So in testing things to sort this Mac/Safari issue I was getting a bit muddled over which file goes where because of the duplicates and changes I was making were not being reflected even after flushing the cache... I think some of them were due to me not being right up to date with trunk... however tonight I took another look and...
>> 
>> This is the code from edit.php for a 'site' template
>> 
>> var so = new SWFObject("modules/site/engine/wizard.swf", "mymovie", 
>> "800", "600", "8,0,0,0", "#e0e0e0"); so.addParam("quality", 
>> "high");so.addVariable("xmlvariable",
>> "USER-FILES/4-guest2-site/preview.xml");
>> so.addVariable("rlovariable", "USER-FILES/4-guest2-site/media/");
>> so.addVariable("languagecodevariable", "en-GB"); 
>> so.addVariable("originalpathvariable", 
>> "modules/site/parent_templates/site/");
>> so.addVariable("template_id", "4");
>> so.addVariable("template_height", "600"); 
>> so.addVariable("template_width", "800"); 
>> so.addVariable("read_and_write", "true"); so.addVariable("savepath", 
>> "modules/xerte/engine/save.php"); so.addVariable("upload_path", 
>> "upload.php?path="); so.addVariable("preview_path", 
>> "modules/xerte/engine/file_exists.php");
>> so.addVariable("flv_skin", 
>> "http://localhost/moodle19/xerte/modules/xerte/engine/tools/SteelOverA
>> ll.swf"); so.addVariable("site_url", 
>> "http://localhost/moodle19/xerte/");
>> so.addVariable("apache", "false");
>> so.write("flashcontent");
>> 
>> So first line is fine - we are using modules/site/engine...
>> Further down though we start using:
>>    modules/xerte/engine/save.php      and
>>    modules/xerte/engine/file_exists.php    and
>>    modules/xerte/engine/tools/SteelOverAll.swf
>> 
>> Now these are dupliacted in modules/site but we're still using the modules/xerte ones... why?
>> 
>> Also, SteelOverAll.swf has full path, upload.php has no path... again i'm a bit confused as to why...
>> 
>> I know it works but it could get confusing as more modules added now that Pat's modularisation is finished?? I think this needs looked at, sorry but probably by you Pat...
>> 
>> Regards,
>> 
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