Hi everyone,
Here is a long-promised update to the Hotpot module which fixes problems with the recording of grades in a number of the hot potatoes modules, particularly Match.
Please download it from my own site:
http://tomrobb.com/hotpotOct04.zip
If you have any problems with it, please post a message here. It should work for all hot potatoes modules (except Masher), TexToys and Quandry.
Great! Thanks, Tom 
Just one request - could you post it on the modules page? This is where people look for modules. Browsing the forum here looking for the newest version may be very confusing (not only for new Moodle users
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Just one request - could you post it on the modules page? This is where people look for modules. Browsing the forum here looking for the newest version may be very confusing (not only for new Moodle users
)Hello Mr. Robb:
Thank you for your hard work on this module.
Our grades are still being recorded as 0, irrespective of score. After the install the module upgraded ( or created? I'm not sure) a table. Is there something we're doing wrong? We are currently using moodle 1.4 (2004083100).
Thank you for any help.
i have the same problem. otherwise the file delinstance.php is not in the module and we have a mistake when we try to delete.
has anybody a solution?
Thans for your work, Robb
One important thing that I didn't realize that I should mention: Once you have the new hotpot version installed, you will need to edit each hotpot quiz that is currently not recording correctly and then save it again. This will cause the new version to rewrite the code. Otherwise the code for all previous modules will still remain the same.
I hope this fixes your problem!
I hope this fixes your problem!
Thanks for the recent upgrade. However I too get 0 scores being added to the hotpot_events table and the hotpot table says 0 attempts made??
I have redone the hotpot resource several times.
Hi Tom
Thanks for the version to cope with my file. Its worked (JCloze2 marker appeared). Hurrah! I also had to clear the cache as suggested. I have sent an email reply but I'm not on the right ISP connection here to be able to send reply just yet. It will go tonight when I get home.
Thanks again
BTW I wonder if all my HotPot modules have bits missing. I am using version 5.5 ..... HEY I've just thought of something. 
There is a version 6 preview in the potatoes and I have been using that for output... THAT may be why your original hotpot converter couldn't find the usual string. It says in the HP help files that version 6 will be different. Does that help? 
I've now download version 6.0.3 of Hot Potatoes and its output files are not working 
. I'll attach the example file which has been changed. BTW the JCloze2 marker didn't appear this time.
Hello Thomas:
The problem seems to persist in newly processed files. I'm really new to this, and don't know much about the code, so bear with me. On my local install, the files seems to have had the following form variables appended to them:
<DIV >
<form name='hotout' method='post' action='http://BBayserver/moodle/mod/hotpot/hotpot2db.php' target='dummy'>
<INPUT type='hidden' name=hotpotid value='0'>
<INPUT type='hidden' name=userid value='0'>
<INPUT type='hidden' name=course value='9'>
<INPUT type='hidden' name=score value='0'>
<INPUT type='hidden' name=wrong value='0'>
<INPUT type='hidden' name=starttime value='0'>
<INPUT type='hidden' name=endtime value='0'>
<INPUT type='hidden' name=event value='0'>
</form>
</DIV>
This seems consistent with the hotpot.php script, which appears to add them in the insertforms function:
$action ="$CFG->wwwroot/mod/hotpot/hotpot2db.php";
fwrite($handle,"<DIV >$cr");
fwrite($handle,"<form name='hotout' method='post' action='$action' target='dummy'>$cr");
/*
fwrite($handle,"<INPUT type='hidden' name=hotpotid value='$form->hotpotid'>$cr");
fwrite($handle,"<INPUT type='hidden' name=userid value='0'>$cr");
fwrite($handle,"<INPUT type='hidden' name=course value='$form->course'>$cr");
fwrite($handle,"<INPUT type='hidden' name=score value='$form->score'>$cr");
fwrite($handle,"<INPUT type='hidden' name=wrong value='$form->wrong'>$cr");
fwrite($handle,"<INPUT type='hidden' name=starttime value='$form->starttime'>$cr");
fwrite($handle,"<INPUT type='hidden' name=endtime value='$form->endtime'>$cr");
fwrite($handle,"<INPUT type='hidden' name=event value='$form->event'>$cr");
*/
fwrite($handle,"<INPUT type='hidden' name=hotpotid value='0'>$cr");
fwrite($handle,"<INPUT type='hidden' name=userid value='0'>$cr");
fwrite($handle,"<INPUT type='hidden' name=course value='$course->id'>$cr");
fwrite($handle,"<INPUT type='hidden' name=score value='0'>$cr");
fwrite($handle,"<INPUT type='hidden' name=wrong value='0'>$cr");
fwrite($handle,"<INPUT type='hidden' name=starttime value='0'>$cr");
fwrite($handle,"<INPUT type='hidden' name=endtime value='0'>$cr");
fwrite($handle,"<INPUT type='hidden' name=event value='0'>$cr");
fwrite($handle,"</form>$cr");
fwrite($handle,"</DIV>$cr");
return;
The code which would append the appropriate variables appears to be commented out, but I'm not terribly familiar with php. Is there place where the appropriate code is appended in some circumstances?
Thanks
There is one more place in the rewritten hotpot file than might not be getting the new code inserted. This place varies from module to module which is why there is a problem. If you look at the mod/hotpot/hotpot.php code you will see a bunch of 'if' statements like:
if ((strpos($alldata[$i],"AllDone == true)||") > 0) && ($qtype == "JMATCH" || $qtype == "JQUIZ"))
which looks for code that is invoked when that particular module has ended and triggers the writing out of the score and other data. It seems that the appropriate statement isn't there for the file that you are trying to use.
If you could you please send me the raw html file privately and I'll check to see what is happening.
if ((strpos($alldata[$i],"AllDone == true)||") > 0) && ($qtype == "JMATCH" || $qtype == "JQUIZ"))
which looks for code that is invoked when that particular module has ended and triggers the writing out of the score and other data. It seems that the appropriate statement isn't there for the file that you are trying to use.
If you could you please send me the raw html file privately and I'll check to see what is happening.
Here is one of the files I've tried. Perhaps its a problem with the configuration settings.
Thank you very much for your help. My French teachers are looking forward to recording the scores.
The version of my moodle is 1.4.1+ now. I have tried to install your HotPot hotfixes in my moodle, however, it doesn't work. It always shows a error message that about cannot find ../../config.php, etc.
Would you mind telling me how to solve the installation problems? Thanks.