I am using Moodle 1.4.3+ (dated 1/9, IIRC), and am getting ready to start a new semester. For some course sites that we want to reuse, I thought I'd use backup/restore to make a new copy for the new semester. I backed up (without student data), then restored to a new course.
Everything worked as I expected, except that virtually everything--assignments, resources, labels, etc.--that had html in it was restored with all of the < and > characters stripped! Yes, I mean that if I edit any resource/assignment description/week summary/etc., it is still edited in HTML mode (originally created using plain web forms, not the HTML editor) and has exactly the same ASCII contents as before, but with all the < and > characters removed. Needless to say, this makes things completely unreadable when rendered.
Does anyone have any idea what might cause this behavior, or how I can fix it?
Hi Stephen,
we had detected such problem in "Spanish Course". After some checks we detected that every moodler with problems were running PHP 5.0.3. Is this your case?
If so, please downgrade your PHP version to 5.0.2. There is a serious bug in 5.0.3 producing such "eating of tags". I hope it will be solved in next PHP 5.0.4 release because the bug seems to be fixed and closed.
Ciao
we had detected such problem in "Spanish Course". After some checks we detected that every moodler with problems were running PHP 5.0.3. Is this your case?
If so, please downgrade your PHP version to 5.0.2. There is a serious bug in 5.0.3 producing such "eating of tags". I hope it will be solved in next PHP 5.0.4 release because the bug seems to be fixed and closed.
Ciao
Thanks for the reply. Our server is indeed running PHP 5.0.3. I'll have to check and see if our sysadmin's will roll that version back for us.
Hi Eloy & Stephen,
This is to confirm that the bug "eating of tags" reported in PHP 5.0.3 has been corrected in PHP 5.0.4-dev, which I have installed & tested.
You can download it at http://snaps.php.net/
All the best,
Joseph_R
Thank you for this info regard php 5.0.3 I also had the problem have reverted back and now do not have the problem backed up restored no problem.
Thanks again for the tip.
Thanks this solved the whole problem, besides there is no PHP 5.0.4-dev yet in www.php.net only PHP 5.0.3-dev (which still has the bug).
Ernesto,
You can download PHP 5.0.4-dev at http://snaps.php.net/
I've installed it to run my local Moodle test site and it does solve the bug problem (see my post http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=17212&parent=87234 )
Enjoy!
Joseph_R
You can download PHP 5.0.4-dev at http://snaps.php.net/
I've installed it to run my local Moodle test site and it does solve the bug problem (see my post http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=17212&parent=87234 )
Enjoy!
Joseph_R
Hi Eloy
I am experiencing this with trying to restore to my ISP who is in the process of upgrading to PHP 5.0.2 (not 5.03!!!).
Actually I did the restore at a time when they were supposed to be reverted to V4 (they are in testing phase) but I am not sure ;-( I need to check exactly which version is current and I wont get a response until Monday)
Anyway it is either PHP Version 4.3.1 or 5.0.2 that is giving the problem.
As I can't control my ISPs upgrade timing / version is there any other solution to this?
Regards
John
Oops!!
I have now done some more checking and found that my ISP is telling little white lies
They have in fact upgraded to 5.0.3 according to PHP info in control panel.
I am obviously in the same boat as the rest here, then. Shame that I don't control the paddle ;-(
Is the problem limited to restore? If I could somehow get the course files up would it run OK on 5.0.3?
John
And now my ISP has reloaded 5.0.2 and it restores just fine!
(execpt of course for the winks 
which always end up hard coded and so have red Xs - I think this is a bug !)
J
Hi,
The server over here is running PHP 5.0.4 and the restore function is still eating the > and < !
It isnt fixed in PHP 5.0.4 ? Or am i doing something terribly wrong here?
- Chris -
The server over here is running PHP 5.0.4 and the restore function is still eating the > and < !
It isnt fixed in PHP 5.0.4 ? Or am i doing something terribly wrong here?
- Chris -
Hi Chris,
I'm running 5.0.4 (MacOS X) and I'm not experiencing such problem at all. Can you send any example of your problem (backup file, screenshoot...) and additional info like OS, Moodle's version...
And, of course, check again that you are running 5.0.4!
Ciao
I'm running 5.0.4 (MacOS X) and I'm not experiencing such problem at all. Can you send any example of your problem (backup file, screenshoot...) and additional info like OS, Moodle's version...
And, of course, check again that you are running 5.0.4!
Ciao
Hi Eloy,
I wanted to make an example for you but it seems the restoring works fine now
...
I don't know who, where and when but it works.
Thanks for your reaction anyway,
- Chris -
I wanted to make an example for you but it seems the restoring works fine now
...I don't know who, where and when but it works.
Thanks for your reaction anyway,
- Chris -
I have the same problem but I am not sure how to change my version of PHP?
I have apachiefriends xampp installed on my server so not sure how to change it.
Could anyone help with that one?
Thanks
I have apachiefriends xampp installed on my server so not sure how to change it.
Could anyone help with that one?
Thanks
Hi Reg,
you will need an older version of XAMPP (containing PHP 5.0.2). Trying to change individual components could be terrible!
Ciao
PS: Perhaps you could use this Moodle4Windows package. Now it's updated to Moodle version 1.4.3 and it uses XAMPP with PHP 5.0.2. If you haven't too much in your current personal server (such package isn't recommended for production servers but for personal use!), you could install it and then move the old database and moodledata dirs to their new location (or use the backup/restore feature to move between servers).
you will need an older version of XAMPP (containing PHP 5.0.2). Trying to change individual components could be terrible!
Ciao
PS: Perhaps you could use this Moodle4Windows package. Now it's updated to Moodle version 1.4.3 and it uses XAMPP with PHP 5.0.2. If you haven't too much in your current personal server (such package isn't recommended for production servers but for personal use!), you could install it and then move the old database and moodledata dirs to their new location (or use the backup/restore feature to move between servers).
In the end I found a batch file that comes with XAMPP that you run to switch from PHP5 to PHP4.
It now works fine
Thanks
Reg
Hi, can you tell me which file that I must run in order to switch from PHP5 to PHP4? Pls, help me...
Thank you very much
Thank you very much
It is in the default installation of XAMPP. the batchfile is in the root directory and called phpswitch.
Follow the instructions 9type 4 to revert to php4)
Worked a treat for me - after a lot of headaches.
I guess i should have searched the forums before i tried to solve these problems myself!!
But why have all my tables defaulted to centre justified???
ST
Follow the instructions 9type 4 to revert to php4)
Worked a treat for me - after a lot of headaches.
I guess i should have searched the forums before i tried to solve these problems myself!!
But why have all my tables defaulted to centre justified???
ST