Flash module add-on: A required parameter (sesskey) was missing

Flash module add-on: A required parameter (sesskey) was missing

by Scott Barlow -
Number of replies: 5

Hi Jamie,

I have followed the development of this module since the first post with lots of excitement. There is true potential in this project. I recently went to the 1.5 version of Moodle Moodle 1.5 ALPHA (2005043000), to be specific. Now I receive this when trying to create an activity.

Any suggestions???

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Re: Flash module add-on: A required parameter (sesskey) was missing

by Jamie Pratt -
I'm downloading 1.5 now. I'll let you know when I have a fix for this. It is probably just a matter of adding sesskey to the hidden variables in the form in flash/mod.html
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Re: Flash module add-on: A required parameter (sesskey) was missing

by Jamie Pratt -
I fixed this problem.

You just need to add :


<INPUT type="hidden" name=sesskey      value="<?php  p($USER->sesskey)?>" >

into the list of hidden variables for every form for editing the activities.

So what I did is searched and replaced :

<INPUT type="hidden" name=mode          value="<?php  p($form->mode) ?>">

with :

<INPUT type="hidden" name=mode          value="<?php  p($form->mode) ?>">
<INPUT type="hidden" name=sesskey      value="<?php  p($USER->sesskey)?>" >

I just committed this to the CVS.

Jamie
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Re: Flash module add-on: A required parameter (sesskey) was missing

by Martin Dougiamas -
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This will work, but the official way to do it is to use the sesskey() function:

<INPUT type="hidden" name=sesskey value="<?php sesskey() ?>" >
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Re: Flash module add-on: A required parameter (sesskey) was missing

by Jamie Pratt -
Thanks Martin.

I'll change the code to that in my TUI and Flash modules.
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Re: Flash module add-on: A required parameter (sesskey) was missing

by Jamie Pratt -
I've decided I'm going back to the p($USER->sesskey) way.

php sesskey() generates a fatal error on Moodle 1.4 whereas p($USER->sesskey) will just be ignored.

I'll stay with this for the time being because I want my code to be compatible with 1.4 and 1.5 without having to support 2 different versions.
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