HTH, Tim.
For example, the forum module: look in lib.php and you'll see where a test is done to perform the filter. Just search on the word 'filter'.
Comment out the lines that do the filtering. Make sure you keep searching afterwards as there may be multiple instances.
From what I've seen so far, the filtering is always done locally, but just checks a site-wide variable as a condition.
Thanks very much for the suggestion on how to reduce autolinking Paul.
I may even hack all the modules except the recources, which is the only place I want to have the autolinking take place.
I wonder what impact this will have on speed. As you know from the other threads, that is what i am after.
I guess that there is a filter section in the course formats as well.
If I were using a linux box I could grep.
Tim
Dear Tim,
There were a couple of other things I did too, but neglected to mention, sorry.
I also reduced the number of items per page to some small number (since using it directly as a glossary is not my primary aim for it) as it then has less work to do.
At first I increased max execution time in /etc/phpconfig too, so the 'All' wouldn't time out. On my copy of moodle cvs1.4xx turning it off in the glossary setup didn't turn it off from alphabetical.
Finally I nuked it from the page by the simple expedient of "translating" the word 'All' in the language packs I use to " ", i.e. just a couple of spaces which don't show up and, hence, can't be clicked.
If you are stuck on windows to talk to your *bsd server, have you tried these? :
winscp which includes this
The former is very good for msw users if you copy keys and make them a shortcut as it gives them an ssh connection with a fairly normal looking msw window to drag and drop from with no fuss about logging in and passwords. It will even use scp to copy to a tmp file so you can use e.g. notepad to edit files transparently and save back to the server.
I use them all the time when I'm stuck on an msw box at a client's place. Then you can grep, pipe, sed, awk, etc to your heart's content.
I know I just posted about commenting out the filtering somewhere on this site, but I've been cruising through the quiz module for the last little while and haven't seen where exactly that happens yet for that particular module; a recursive grep on 'filter' wasn't helpful. Dunno. When I find it (and I will, because I have Been Told To), I'll post
Funny. It's obvious in other places.
It's 0340 for me here in PST, so I'm turning in now …
Thanks for your kind words. Glad my post was useful to you.
Regards,
Paul Evans
Dear Paul,
I think that your suggestion for decreasing the load created by filtering (by implementing filtering by module) is the future, and I look forward to a time when the filter management page has setup options for each of the modules (perhaps, one day).
But since I have already hacked my 1.4.1+ extensively, and I am going to have to hack 1.4.2 in the same way, I have not yet found the energy to remove the filter calling parts of thevarious modules. And if you can't find where it is called in the quiz -- the most important module for me-- then I am pretty sure that I will not be able to find it either.
There are some parts of your post above that I do not understand since I am not nearly as savvy as you. Please do NOT feel oblidged to explain to me. I am unwashed. But I include a brief list of my confusion since I don't want to pretend to have understood. That would be an insult to your dillegence.
Reducing the number of items per page... Is this a setting in the glossary I wonder. Or in the glossary code, I wonder again. I am using the glossary as a glossary (or dictionary) so I don't think that I can take this path if so.
I am not sure what the "All" you mention is!
winscp and putty look beyond me but I guess it is a way of gaining linux/unix like control, and grep in particular, on windows systems. I seem to remember attempting to install putty or something vaguely similar so as to be able to access the moodle cvs from my windows boxes. I can't code php but the Japanese language translator wants help translating so I tried to join the moodle cvs community. The software I attempted to use, and failed to install, was a sort of linux command line for windows. Putty? Gutty?
I have in the distant past downloaded a text editor that allowed me to search for strings in files on windows. Can't remember what it was now. The windows search capability says that it searches for strings, but I find that it does not!
But anyway, since I am not linux/unix savvy and am a windows waller, I don't think putty is for me, in this case. I beg to be forgiven for waiting in the hope that, to put it bluntly, you will find the filtering parts of the code for me. Ach... and even then, I probably will not have the time to hack them all out.
No... I think that I should just give up on my mammoth glossaries and for the time being and hope for more filtering control in future.
I am still wondering how http://rikai.com manages to filter so much so quickly.
Tim
takemoto
Hey - chin up - it's only ascii, there's always a way around things. Eventually
>Reducing the number of items per page.
Is a glossary setting you can twiddle.
The 'All' I'm talking about is the one which the user can click to get 'all' pages - it really eats up cpu and time doing that.
About winscp: just download it and try it out, trust me, it's very simple to install and use. If you don't have a shell account on your University's servers, just write me real email at pevans@catholic.org and I will make you an account on one of my boxes so you can play with it until you are comfortable (don't worry, it won't be on a production server
About the quiz thing, it was late and I was a little burned out. Here's something that seems to work ok. It relies on matching a word in the URL to prevent the filtering, so you could use it for other modules too. I just used strpos() instead of a regex to speed things up, but that's why I included the forward slashes around the target word. strpos() isn't as a 'bright' as a regex can be.
So, try this out if you like: edit the file filter.php in /mod/glossary. Locate function glossary_dynamic_link, which is right near the top and right after the line with 'global $CFG' put
// Nolink for quizzes (or any other word in the path you like)
// $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'] looks like e.g. : /mysite/mod/quiz/view.php?id=21
if (strpos($_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'], "/quiz/")) {
return $text;
}
You can extend it to other modules by using their name instead of quiz I imagine.
You could do it 'nicely' by looping through a (possibly stored) list or simply make more copies of the above.
Let me know if that works for you please since I haven't tested it too much yet. Mind you, it doesn't seem like much could go wrong with two lines of php
cheers,
Paul
Dear Paul
The php looks really good. I will check it and winscp out soon.
Thanks very much indeed.
I tried the winscp first. Wow. Wow. Burn your ftp clients! This is really space goat. I am going to have so many more friends now. I can move files. I can edit them in a text editor and save them to remote server. And I have not even started to use Putty. Thank you very much for this recommendation.
I recommend this winscp to everyone. Trust Paul, and me, and download it now.
Tim
I'm not familiar with the space goat idiom, but I take it that it's a Good Thing
Glad to hear it. Let me know about that shell account and I'll lead you through the basics of getting around on *nix boxen if you like. That would round things out nicely and you'd really be flying!
You can change strings in thousands of files very quickly indeed with regular *nix tools. 'Course, that's another way of saying you can make huge mistakes with hardly any effort
For msw you will find this tool handy:
http://www.adsoft-development.com/portfolio/portfolio.php3?cid=5
I've used it to fix huge GIS models under windows. Nearly a terrabyte of photos served. works.
For a text editor you want this (not to start a war):
http://www.notetab.com/ntl.php
and this, since you prolly don't have a clipboard history:
http://www.yankee-clipper.net/index.html
and this for a file manager you can use in an ms-dos shell:
http://www.egner-online.de/vc/en/downloads.shtml
(alpha version free?, stable is shareware)
Finally (and completely off topic), this cheap and cheerful image viewer/editor:
http://www.irfanview.com/
All free as in beer, but not speech.
I used msw on my own box once for about 7 months and those are what kept me sane. More or less.
I can direct you to more powerful versions of any of those if you need to stay with windows and have greater needs. All free of course in one form or another.
Regards,
Paul Evans
p.s. a note to any future readers: I am *not* in the business of just handing out shell accounts, so please don't contact me for free shell accounts and tutorials. I guess I was just impressed with Tim's diligence or something
if NOT condition(s) met:
return the text
else
filter it
that way you only need to do one thing.
Also, notice that you can put anything in for the match, so you can make it finer grained by making the match longer e.g. '/quiz/foo.php' instead of just '/quiz/'.
Too bad I'm -17h from you here. Makes conversations slow : - /
Thanks again Paul,
I am still at work with various dull things to do, but I will be trying at least some of the above software and the NOT (!) version of the two lines of php in your last version above. All I need is the resources linked.
BTW I appreciate the special offer of a shell account, but the truth is I have a linux box too ( I hope that does not piss you off). I have a Redhat 9 box, but I am not familiar with using it (other than the redhat gui, a bit), I only use it as a server and can't get my knees under the table where it is, so I don't use it much but I have ample oportunity for practice. And now that I can (when I have got the hang of things) get a command line from my main windows computer, I anticipate improvements.
Yep, I have a "unix like" command prompt for my university's server, and my linux box with no leg room. So far I have managed to cd and ls but I will find a website with more instructions. This is not putty though. I need to install that seperately it seems.
Yankee Clipper looks very helpful too. It is something I have wanted for a while.
I have photoimpact so I don't think I will be using ifranview (which I have used many years ago. Just befoer I bought photoimpact I experimented with GIMP but it crashes on this msw.
For the time being I am very happy with the friendliness of winscp over and above the ftp client I have been using till now. I had tried to set up Samba and had failed but this requires nothing more than copying accross the details from my ftp client.
It looks like winscp is going to be the answer to my backup worries too. The compare directory and synchronisation features look very promising. I had been using AJC directory sychroniser (shareware) but it does not lie well with Japanese folder names, unlike winscp.
When I have a bit more time I will implement more of your advice.
Gratefully
Tim
About only linking resources -- you're right - that's all I need myself. Thanks for pointing that out.
Between that and lengthening the cache, I think we just won.
Well, till next time,
cheers