[Xerte] XOT installation problems

Thu Nov 18 15:54:29 GMT 2010

Hello,

Well, my mistake. Had I looked at the error logs, I would have it figured out faster.

I would add session_start anyway in the "template" file (integration.txt), as several lines below make use of the $_SESSION superglobal.

Nicolas

Le 18 nov. 2010 à 16:47, Patrick Lockley a écrit :

> Hi,
> 
> Ahhh, I left out session_start in case people did it some other way.
> 
> Perhaps I should add session_start in but commented out?
> 
> Pat
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk [mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Nicolas Dunand
> Sent: 18 November 2010 15:46
> To: Xerte discussion list
> Subject: Re: [Xerte] XOT installation problems
> 
> Hello,
> 
> Oh, that's the way it's intended ... Sorry I couldn't figure it out.
> 
> Well, I'm using Shibboleth authentication (http://shibboleth.internet2.edu/), so my username etc. variable are accessible as $_SERVER (php superglobals).
> 
> The use of integration.txt (renamed and tuned) didn't work, so I used a tuned index.php (replacing only username, firstname and lastname), and it worked ! Finally I figured the file integration.txt is missing a "session_start()" at the beginning, so the session variables wouldn't register.
> 
> Thanks again, I think I'm back on track now :-)
> 
> 
> 
> Best regards.
> 
> 
> Nicolas
> 
> 
> Le 18 nov. 2010 à 15:23, Patrick Lockley a écrit :
> 
>> Hello,
>> 
>> Index.php shouldn't have a hardcoded username by default, that's only if demo.php has been used. There is user management if you have an LDAP install?
>> 
>> Try integration.txt in the root folder? Rename it index.php and make the code changes, I think I commented up ok.
>> 
>> Thanks for the interest
>> 
>> Pat
>> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk [mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Nicolas Dunand
>> Sent: 18 November 2010 13:41
>> To: Xerte discussion list
>> Subject: Re: [Xerte] XOT installation problems
>> 
>> Hello again,
>> 
>> Thanks for your answer Pat.
>> 
>> I started again the other day, and chose the XAMPP install, figuring it would be simpler than a full server install. Then I noticed there's no user management (all users share a guest account and don't have separate private folders).
>> 
>> I have Apache environment variables that hold the username (and first name / last name), so I thought I could use the integration.php file and configure it accordingly. Then I notices that it wasn't going to be that easy, as I have no clue as to where to include integration.php from, plus I then noticed that the file "index.php" contained hard-coded username as "guest".
>> 
>> So my question is: is there any relatively easy way to achieve what I'm trying to do ? that is, passing some variable I already have at my disposal as the Xerte username ?
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> Best regards,
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> Nicolas
>> 
>> Le 11 nov. 2010 à 13:52, Patrick Lockley a écrit :
>> 
>>> Hello,
>>> 
>>> You are correct. There are some typos in the code leading to a few errors (if php error reporting is set to a high level). The code was developed on a server with all errors suppressed so it's not perfect.
>>> 
>>> It's on my list of things to fix when I get the time to do so.
>>> 
>>> So you aren't doing anything wrong, it's my code. I should have it fixed in a week or so.
>>> 
>>> Thanks
>>> 
>>> Pat
>>> 
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk [mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Nicolas Dunand
>>> Sent: 11 November 2010 12:47
>>> To: xerte at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
>>> Subject: [Xerte] XOT installation problems
>>> 
>>> Hi,
>>> 
>>> After some time trying to install the Xerte Online Toolkits on a (public) web server, I keep hitting the wall. The HTML output keeps throwing PHP errors and warnings. These seem to prevent the code to execute properly.
>>> 
>>> Some of these PHP error messages or warnings made me look into the PHP code. There, I discovered some problems, in particular in /edit.php (function update_access_time) : the global variable $xerte_toolkits_site is being used, but without calling it before (using PHP's "global" keyword). This used to throw a PHP warning, until I fixed it adding "global $xerte_toolkits_site" at the beginning of the function. I did this a few other times, but I can't remember exactly where.
>>> 
>>> So my questions are :
>>> 
>>> - Am I using the last available version ? (I just downloaded it again for the web site http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/xerte/ a couple weeks ago ... )
>>> - Am I doing something wrong (are there some more complete instructions I missed ?)
>>> 
>>> I like very much what we could do with XOT, but I would just like to correct these points (i.e., error messages showing on some pages, and application simply malfunctioning some times) before I can propose it for use to my teachers.
>>> 
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