After upgrading via cvs to 1.8 beta (we have ½ term, so time to experiment with new features) the HTML editor only allows for code to be edited. Gone are all the buttons etc, and the ability to edit normally. Is this a bug? Or are we missing something in 1.8?
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Thanks for a reply from someone who knows more!
Thanks Martin, but that doesn't help.
However I updated a number of times today - without seeable errors. After your reply, I downloaded a new version, and used that. Same problem.
Can it be a database issue? If that’s the case then I'll put 1.7.1 back - there wasn't too much action today - and we need to sus it out...
We have been upgrading since version 1.2 (I think) at least since 2003 and the upgrade to 1.7, 1.7.1 went without too much problems... but still.
Thanks again for your time.
Peter
Have tested and this is definitely a database issue - we can't upgrade to 1.8 without losing the html editor, - we have download a clean, fully working version, tested it on an empty database to make sure html editor is fully functional, then pointed it to our test copy of the main site.
When upgrading from 1.7.1 to 1.8 there were no visible errors. (All “success”)
Hi Peter,
did you test fresh moodle 1.8 / editor with standard theme ?
I visited your site http://www.wittenborg-intranet.nl/
and checked your xhtml code with
http://validator.w3.org/
The result was: This page is not Valid XHTML 1.0 Transitional!
Failed validation, 139 errors...
That clock at front page is not visible in Firefox either...so could this be just a problem with your theme or some non standard block (like that clock)?
Did you upgrade via cvs? (And if so, from which version?)
Thanks Mauno
Luckily I have a quiet few days, so am able to do a bit of testing and playing around:
At the test site http://test.wittenborg-online.com I used a clean cvs download, changed the theme to cornflower, removed all blocks from the front page, as well as news items and “topic”, resulting in only 1 error on validator.w3.org .. and still the html editor shows the fault editor_78e731027d8fd50ed642340b7c9a63b3.generate(); //]]> - allowing only html edit.
I also installed a new, downloaded cvs 1.8 version, and loaded it with one of the Wittenborg themes – and html editor still worked – so it isn’t the adapted theme.
By the way, at least ½ the html errors were down to pasted code from Front Page (staff publishing news, etc) and the rest were from the theme itself!
Careful conclusion (?) - I think it’s an upgrade problem, and I think it’s related to the database.
What I need to find out, is whether it is a result of our particular installation – upgraded many times in the past years, moved from Postgres to MySQL a of year ago, etc – or if it is a general upgrade problem from 1.7.1 to 1.8.
I’m afraid I am not a php or mysql programmer – I understand a lot and (at the moment) use moodle to facilitate our small institute, but as a business school director don’t have enough time to sort this out (my excuses for not offering a solution).
If it is a problem of our particular installation then I shall hire someone in to fix it (and post the solution for anyone who may have the same problem), however if it’s a general upgrade problem that will be fixed moodle wise, then I’m a happy man!
Peter
Eureka (couldn’t sit down with a beer till I’d tried a few more things…!)
Problem is Spelling!
In the clean 1.8 version database there is no field config/editorspelling
… of course there is in my version of 1.7.1
So I removed the path to aspell in System paths
And hey presto – html editor in “what you see is what you get” mode WORKS!
Even switched it on and off a bit to check!
Have posted this to http://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-8597 as I'm sure its a bug. Hope I did this correctly.
Peter
