[Xerte] Re: Question about published content and PHP

[Ron Mitchell]

Just to add another couple of quick points to what's already been said....

1. I've never known a xerte database to crash but of course you should setup
automated backups of the install directory and the database just to be safe.

2. Don't fall into the trap of thinking that published and exported content
is more reliable and less likely to break than LO's linked or embedded from
the Toolkits install. In most cases there are so many more benefits to
linking or embedding from toolkits rather than exporting (and in effect
separating from toolkits) that I'd say the reverse is true e.g. your LO's
are less future proofed and more likely to have problems in future if
exported rather than linked or embedded. As an example YouTube, Flickr,
MathJax have all changed their services/code in recent months/years and this
is quickly fixed in the Xerte code but to fix the same in say 30 exported
LO's you would have to update your install and then re-export and re-import
each of those LO's. Whereas if linked or embedded then with the install
updated potentially hundreds or even thousands of LO's are fixed in one go.

HTH
Ron

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[mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Smith, John
Sent: 21 April 2015 11:58
To: Naveed.Hashmi at bristol.ac.uk; Xerte discussion list
Subject: [Xerte] Re: Question about published content and PHP

Hi Naveed,

If you have made the LO public and are using a url pointing to the xerte
server, most likely ending in play.php?id=xx (where xx is the id of the
learning object) then yes it still hits the database to resolve details
about the LO and to update some stats...

If you have exported a zip file (either archive or scorm) from Properties ->
Export tab and placed this on a server or run it locally then no, it no
longer needs access to the original server or database and can in fact run
offline...

Regards,

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[xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Naveed Hashmi
[Naveed.Hashmi at bristol.ac.uk]
Sent: 21 April 2015 11:51
To: Pat Lockley (Pgogy)
Cc: Xerte discussion list
Subject: [Xerte] Re: Question about published content and PHP

I mean the actual content that is accessible to users, not the publishing
process.

I think embedded content needs PHP, i.e. the php player, but content
exported as SCORM does not. I doubt either need to make calls to the
database via php.

Thanks.

On 21 April 2015 at 11:42, Pat Lockley (Pgogy)
<info at pgogywebstuff.com<mailto:info at pgogywebstuff.com>> wrote:
By published - you mean "made public and the published button has been
clicked"?
Else my last answer is wrong

Published by clicking on publish still means the playing on a project uses
PHP to decide various things, and in doing so uses the database as well


On 2015-04-21 11:36, Naveed Hashmi wrote:
A related question, if the database 'crashes', will this affect any
published content?

Thanks.

On 21 April 2015 at 11:30, Pat Lockley (Pgogy)
<info at pgogywebstuff.com<mailto:info at pgogywebstuff.com>> wrote:

It shouldn't do, bar the API calls / RSS feeds?

On 2015-04-21 11:26, Naveed Hashmi wrote:

Hi,

Newbie question : I assume the published content (HTML5) does not make calls
to the application server (re: PHP), is this correct?

Naveed

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