Archive for June, 2008
Thursday, June 19th, 2008
TODO: Summarise Moodle Skin for client.
What we did is smart use of Moodle functionality and CSS to improve the useability and navigation a LOT for the Moodle users. Some tricks:
defined custom HTML blocks to be used as navigational elements placeholders for pictures or text
used resources in (hidden) main block to ...
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Thursday, June 19th, 2008
Search and replace is easy in vi, you just have to know the proper commands:
First occurrence on current line: :s/OLD/NEW
Globally (all) on current line: :s/OLD/NEW/g
Between two lines #,#: ...
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Thursday, June 19th, 2008
copied site for testing purposes; site uses ldap for authentication so set authentication to db in config table. Then, you have to set the auth attribute in user table also to db. Wondering if passwords are saved in database. If not, I have to set them by hand in the ...
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Tuesday, June 17th, 2008
Installed Freemind on Debian:
added repositories from: Freemind on Debian Linux
set java-version to java-1.5.0-sun with update-java-alternatives -s
run freemind!
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Monday, June 16th, 2008
Created custom theme for client.
Hoera, firebug for Firefox 3 is released.
NOTES:
to center div element, set margin to auto
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Monday, June 9th, 2008
Adapted custom report for client. Now our report shows all scorm grades for all courses. Should be adapted to show overview of final grades for each user.
1. Created test environment for client with pg-database:
cp -a moodlecodebase moodlecodebasetest
cp -a moodledata moodledatatest
pg_dump -f output_file.sql dbname
pgsql -U moodleuser dbname < output_file.sql
edit apache conf ...
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Wednesday, June 4th, 2008
Client reported that global search did not index all physical files in Moodle. Checked out the problem and global search indexes physical files linked in the prefix_resource table. If you put your files in directories, references to those directories are included in the resource table but not the contents of ...
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Tuesday, June 3rd, 2008
Moodle replaces apces with underscores on uploaded files. However, if you upload a zip file which contains files / folders with space, and then unzip it from within Moodle, those files will still contain spaces and cause problems when downloading them.
To avoid this problem, it is advised not to user ...
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Monday, June 2nd, 2008
Based on client request I added strip_tags($item) to the export functions mod/quiz/report/analysis/report.php . That way, html tags are not shown in the export of to xls, ods and txt.
Also I rewrote the group functions for the quickmail module (in contrib). Not so difficult, just make sure to user array_keys() to ...
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