[Xerte] Toolkit template management errors

[Fred Riley]

As a follow-up on the message below posted a couple of days ago about
Toolkits+XAMPP on Windoze, I've just now downloaded the package to a
Macbook running OS/X with XAMPP for Mac, and after one permissions tweak
it worked fine. You have to set the installation directory to be
writeable by the web server, which would be insecure online but won't
matter on a localhost installation. Without this tweak I got permissions
errors on setup. 

Lines 109-116 in setup/xampp.php write to, and rename, the files
database.php, index.php, and demo.txt. This isn't an issue on Windoze as
users are usually logged in with admin rights (which is why it's so
damned insecure, but that's another rant, another day).

However, on trying to open management.php as below the 'slash' errors
recurred, with the same warning as below, so plainly the path
"C:\xampp\htdocs\xertetoolkits\" is hardwired into the mySQL database,
and a quick check in phpMyAdmin showed that this is held in the fields
sitedetails.import_path and sitedetails.root_file_path. If it's felt
that it's worth catering for Mac localhost installations it might be
worth tweaking this. I didn't really want to tweak this to Mac paths as
I was only doing a test. 

That's all. Boring, or what? ;)

Cheers

Fred

Fred Riley
Learning Technologist
School of Nursing, Midwifery and Physiotherapy, University of Nottingham
Vcard: http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/nursing/sonet/about/fr_uon.vcf  

> -----Original Message-----
> From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk 
> [mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Fred Riley
> Sent: 13 October 2009 16:38
> To: Xerte discussion list
> Subject: [Xerte] Toolkit template management errors
> 
> I've got a .xtp file which Julian passed me, which I was 
> after opening in Toolkits. When I was passed the file I was 
> told that it could be installed in management.php. I've 
> installed Toolkits on my hard disk which had XAMPP on it, and 
> have shoved it in localhost/xertetoolkits. I then tried the 
> URL http://localhost/xertetoolkits/management.php and got two 
> include errors, one of which is below:
> 
> Warning:
> file_get_contents(C:\xampp\htdocs\xertetoolkits\website_code/l
> ogin_top)
> [function.file-get-contents]: failed to open stream: No such 
> file or directory in 
> C:\devt\xampp\htdocs\xertetoolkits\management.php on line
> 42
> 
> The reason for this is obvious: there's a forward slash 
> before the include file name. Looking in management.php on 
> line 42 there are just the filenames login_top and 
> login_bottom mentioned, so the path info must be coming from 
> elsewhere - where? Or is it, as I suspect, that the 
> installation path is being stored somewhere without a 
> trailing slash, so Windoze is shoving a forward slash in to 
> complete it?
> 
> Is there any written documentation for Toolkits, in 
> particular on developing and editing templates? I can see the 
> online demo but no docs in either the installation or the 
> Xerte site, though maybe I've not looked for long enough. 
> 
> Cheers
> 
> Fred
> 
> Fred Riley
> Learning Technologist
> School of Nursing, Midwifery and Physiotherapy, University of 
> Nottingham
> Vcard: http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/nursing/sonet/about/fr_uon.vcf
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