[Xerte] Xerte Online Toolkits V1.0 Released

Thu Apr 9 20:42:15 BST 2009

Hi Patrick,

I downloaded from the Nottingham University, Xerte Website. I still have the
unzipped file on my test laptop where the files are dated 08/04 at 17:57 or
thereabouts. I agree it's very easy to get confused with so many memory
sticks for testing purposes, but I downloaded this one early this morning,
i.e. before it had been overwritten with the current one.

I don't know that much about php but the supplied copy of database.txt on
that version looks like this

<?

/**

* 

* database page, has the settings for database connection

*

* @author Patrick Lockley

* @version 1.0

* @copyright Copyright (c) 2008,2009 University of Nottingham

* @package

*/

/*

* Host where database is

*/

$xerte_toolkits_site->database_host = "localhost";

/*

* Username for database

*/

$xerte_toolkits_site->database_username ="DATABASE_USERNAME";

/*

* Password for database

*/

$xerte_toolkits_site->database_password ="DATABASE_PASSWORD";

/*

* Database name

*/

$xerte_toolkits_site->database_name ="toolkits_data_april";

/*

* Database table prefix

*/

$xerte_toolkits_site->database_table_prefix ="tk__";

?>

But i'm guessing it should look like this

<?

/**

* 

* database page, has the settings for database connection

*

* @author Patrick Lockley

* @version 1.0

* @copyright Copyright (c) 2008,2009 University of Nottingham

* @package

*/

/*

* Host where database is

*/

$xerte_toolkits_site->database_host = "DATABASE_HOST";

/*

* Username for database

*/

$xerte_toolkits_site->database_username ="DATABASE_USERNAME";

/*

* Password for database

*/

$xerte_toolkits_site->database_password ="DATABASE_PASSWORD";

/*

* Database name

*/

$xerte_toolkits_site->database_name ="DATABASE_NAME";

/*

* Database table prefix

*/

$xerte_toolkits_site->database_table_prefix ="DATABASE_PREFIX";

?>

In order for lines 94 to 96 of page2.php to work properly, i.e. 

$buffer = str_replace("DATABASE_HOST",$_POST['host'],$buffer);

$buffer = str_replace("DATABASE_NAME",$_POST['database_name'],$buffer);

$buffer = str_replace("DATABASE_PREFIX",$_POST['database_prefix'],$buffer);

As I said, I'm not a php programmer - my speciality is perl, so if I'm out of
order or my depth, I apologise.

Kindest Regards,

Thomas

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From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
[mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Patrick Lockley
Sent: 09 April 2009 19:41
To: Xerte discussion list
Subject: RE: [Xerte] Xerte Online Toolkits V1.0 Released

Thomas, sorry if this sounds stupid, but are you going to the main xerte site
or one of the beta urls i sent you?

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From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk on behalf of Rochford, Thomas
Sent: Thu 09/04/2009 16:59
To: Xerte discussion list
Subject: RE: [Xerte] Xerte Online Toolkits V1.0 Released

That's true, it works for me, but it won't work if you want to use a
different database name or a different prefix. Pat had also made changes to
the installation code but I don't think they were *wholly* successful - I
still needed to doctor the 'skeleton' file.

Kindest Regards,

Thomas

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From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
[mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Julian Tenney
Sent: 09 April 2009 16:43
To: Xerte discussion list
Subject: RE: [Xerte] Xerte Online Toolkits V1.0 Released

I made a small update and downloaded the zip, changed my files and uploaded
it again, so I'm not sure. Pat has a few changes to make when he's back next
week, but it sounds as though you've cracked it anyway,

J

From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
[mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Rochford, Thomas
Sent: Thursday, April 09, 2009 4:37 PM
To: Xerte discussion list
Subject: RE: [Xerte] Xerte Online Toolkits V1.0 Released

I've been busy getting this running on a 'stick' and have had a lot of help
from Patrick. However, even with the new setup files (dated 09/04/2009 @
17:57) I was still having problems until I changed setup/database.txt to read
as follows:

<?

/**

* 

* database page, has the settings for database connection

*

* @author Patrick Lockley

* @version 1.0

* @copyright Copyright (c) 2008,2009 University of Nottingham

* @package

*/

/*

* Host where database is

*/

$xerte_toolkits_site->database_host = "localhost";

/*

* Username for database

*/

$xerte_toolkits_site->database_username ="DATABASE_USERNAME";

/*

* Password for database

*/

$xerte_toolkits_site->database_password ="DATABASE_PASSWORD";

/*

* Database name

*/

$xerte_toolkits_site->database_name ="toolkits";

/*

* Database table prefix

*/

$xerte_toolkits_site->database_table_prefix ="";

?>

Also, I've just downloaded xertetoolkits.zip again from the Nottingham
University WebSite and it seems to have reverted to the previous version, or
am I just imagining this?

Regards,

Thomas

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