Comments on: Moodle 1.9.5+Liberal Arts Edition v1.01

By: Patric Lougheed

Patric Lougheed — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 23:10:00 +0000

I have just installed it in a WAMP environment using Wampserver and it setup and runs great. I will bet the user setup in the database does not have enough permission to create. I go in first and create an empty database and then go through setup and works every time.

I am loving the TinyMCE as we are having many issues with instructors cutting and pasting from MS products and breaking their courses.

By: Ken Newquist

Ken Newquist — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 16:36:10 +0000

We haven’t tested it in that environment; it installs fine under LAMP. Are you able to install vanilla Moodle (1.9.5 or 1.97) in that environment?

By: Maja

Maja — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 12:06:52 +0000

hi there,

i downloaded LAE 1.01 version and tried to install it locally, but get white page after input database data.
i am using win7 xampp as webserver. i think there is a problem / BUG in creating database.

could you check it please

cheers

dursun

By: Johannes

Johannes — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 20:30:58 +0000

Hi there,

I’d love to see such a documentation too since the information here is way to short…

I extremely appreciate the integration of TinyMCE. Thank you a lot. But I just can’t seem to get it to work -.-

Thanks for your helping me,

Johannes

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By: Mark Pearson

Mark Pearson — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 15:48:54 +0000

@lael
I dug around in my Moodle TiddlyWiki and found the answer to your question.
Basically, the configuration of the button bar is set in lib/editor/tinymce.js.php (which you probably already know). The code I used was in “tinyMCE.init{{
The button bar illustrated by : http://www.earlham.edu/markp/miss/graphics/button_changes_2nd_try.png
is configured thus:

theme_advanced_buttons1: “formatselect, |, bold,italic, |, bullist, numlist, outdent, indent”,
theme_advanced_buttons1_add: “|,justifyleft,justifycenter,justifyright,|, forecolor,backcolor,|,charmap,hr”,
theme_advanced_buttons2: “link,unlink,moodlenolink, |,table,visualaid, image, |, selectall,cleanup”,
theme_advanced_buttons2_add: “removeformat,pastetext,pasteword,| ,undo,redo,|,search, code”,
theme_advanced_buttons3 : “”,

and the ‘no link’ button is ‘moodlenolink’
Note also that you can set the font sizes for the TinyMCE editor (which default to tiny) in moodlecontent.css. I used:

body {
background-color: #FFFFFF;
margin: 5px;
font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
font-size: 90%;
}
td {
font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
font-size: 90%;
}

Hope this helps

Mark

By: lael

lael — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 15:19:09 +0000

I am trialing the TinyMCE integration – which by the way, was a piece of cake to install, copy folders over existing ones… Am I missing somthing? the instructions that said it was difficult had me thinking there was going to be an awful lot more to do to install it.

I have a question about two things – 1; is it possible to include a ‘no link’ button in the tinymce editor. I noticed Mark Pearson seemed to have one working on this forum thread: http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=107550 – but am unsure how he did it.
2. When inserting images – is there a way to change the default behaviour to allow a preview of the image when clicking on it’s name rather than inserting the file location in the url bar? The current html area does this, and it is handy for checking you have the right image before completing the linking process.

thanks again for your great work and making it available!

Lael

By: andreas

andreas — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 14:11:32 +0000

Hello CLAMP-IT Team,

I like the integration of TinyMCE very much, but I have problems with the language selection.
After installing the german language pack and switching to it, Moodle jumps every time back to the english, but in the language chooser german is active.

Then I attempted to install german language packs for tinymce without success.

So I want to ask for a hint or solution for these issues.

Thanks and best regards
Andreas

By: lafayettenuke

lafayettenuke — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 20:27:59 +0000

Note: We’ve run into an issue using SimplePie on PHP 5.1.2 at Lafayette. SimplePie RSS (a PHP library which is used to parse RSS feeds in the LAE) triggers a segmentation fault when loading course pages that display RSS feeds. This can cause problems with pages loading incompletely; in our case this manifested as Moodle no longer staying in edit mode after editing a resource (you’d go to Edit mode, add a resource, and when you returned to the page, you’d no longer be in edit mode).

This is definitely a SimplePie issue, and not a Moodle one. We see also see it throw segfaults when using the Feed API module for Drupal and when displaying feeds in WordPress MU. Both of these use SimplePie; in Drupal’s case, the segfault prevents the module from being able to add any feeds to the site, while in WordPress’s case the segfault occurs after the feeds are added and the page loads.

This problem doesn’t appear under PHP 5.1.6, and it may be that it is related to our particular version of Redhat Enterprise Linux. If anyone else is running PHP 5.1.2 and has encountered this issue with SimplePie, we’d love to hear from you.