Hi everyone,
I have a problem with my first HotPot test on Moodle.
I made a test including 40 questions, 2 of them are short-answer type.
When I import it on Moodle with the HotPot module, the test is empty...
When I delete these 2 questions, it works...
Do you have any hint ?
Thanks in advance !
Chris
Hi Chris,
please could you upload the JQuiz to my server so we can look at it together there:
thanks
Gordon
Ok done, the test is named : "Jquiz - Christophe Pons" on your server.
Thank you.
It is the apostrophe's that are causing problems. For example, this one:
If you gave me a day or two, I will fix the HotPot code and let you know when it is fixed.
Indeed, it worked without the apostrophe's. I deleted it on all questions, not only on the two short-answer type.
Hum there is something strange anyway.
When I place the two short-answer questions on the first places, it works even with the apostrophe's, why ? That's a little bit weird...
Why isn't it working only when these two questions are there ?
Thanks
Slow down with the questions please
I have fixed the cause of the issue, so that the HotPot module can handle apostrophe's in strings that get inserted into JavaScript.
I am just arranging for the new scripts to be added to the Moodle CVS. That should be finished very soon, then sometime within the next 24 hours the new scripts will be available from the Moodle downloads page.
thanks for reporting this issue, and for your patience while I was getting it fixed.
regards
Gordon
Thanks a lot Gordon !
Regards
Chris
You're welcome !
If have updated the Moodle CVS for Moodle 1.9, so that will be available from the Moodle downloads page in due course - usually less than 24 hours.
If you are in a great hurry, you can download the modified HotPot module for Moodle 1,9 from my server:
I will update Moodle 1.6, 1.7, 1.8 and 2.0 when I get time.
enjoy!
Gordon
I have just finished updating the HotPot scripts in the CVS repositories for Moodle 1.6, 1.7, 1.8 and 2.0, so we should have no more problems with apostrophe's in JavaScript.
However, if you notice anything strange, please feel free to report it here.
best regards
Gorodn
OK lets try it !
One last thing Gordon.
Why is the HotPot module version still the same ? (2007101513)
Hi Christophe,
the version number is still the same because there is was no change to the database structure or content. I only change the version number when it is necessary to trigger the HotPot update scripts to take some action on the database.
If I changed the version number for every little change I make to the HotPot scripts we would soon run out of version numbers
best regards
Gordon
Indeed. Thanks !
It's working fine by the way !
Hi,
Could you be more precise about the fix of the problem ?
The javascript code bugged because of an impair number of apostrophe's ?
Thanks
Chris
> The javascript code bugged because of an impair number of apostrophe's ?
Oh dear. The quiz you gave me to test on was working on my server. Is this the same quiz or a different one? Please could you send me a copy of the quiz that doesn't work?
thanks
Gordon
It's the same quiz, it's working fine now.
I just wanted to have some precisions about the fix...? What wasn't working ? (the apostrophe's problem)
Thanks
Well, the <enter-a-guess> tag from the ",jqz" file, which is actually an xml file, needs to have it's apostrophe's escaped because it is sent to the browser as a javascript string. The string was not being escaped, so I modifed the appropriate script, line 1464 of "mod/hotpot/template/v6.php" to be precise, and now - viola, it works!
While I was at it, I realized there were some other strings that needed to be escaped for javascript, and I also found a couple of strings that were being esacped that didn't need to be so I fixed them.
For a full inventory of what was changed, please see the Moodle CVS site:
Okay ! Ty
Chris
