When creating a moodle lesson I get a blank page after I make my choice and click please check one answer. It is a multiple choice question.
When i run debug this is the error I get
Parse error: parse error, unexpected T_OBJECT_OPERATOR in /opt/moodle/html/mod/lesson/action/continue.php on line 418
We are using 1.9.11+ (Build 20110427)
Any help would be appreciated
Hi,
I met quite the same problem: since I've updated from 1.9.9 to 1.9.13 and 1.9.14+ the module Lesson doesn't work anymore : at the very first page of each lesson, when checking the answer -right or wrong- Moddle displays a blank page .../moodle/mod/lesson/lesson.php
This is true either for the "old" lessons created in the previous versions of Moodle as well as far any new lesson created in the 1.9.14+ version.
I've temporarly downgraded to the previous version 1.9.9+ (Build: 20100901) and the very same lessons work perfectly fine again.
Any help would be welcome ! Thanks,
D.B.
Hello again,
I received exactly the same error message :
Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_OBJECT_OPERATOR in /..../www/moodle/mod/lesson/action/continue.php on line 418
The 418 line in continue.php is :
$response = reset($answers)->answer;
Thanks for any help,
D.B.
I am having the exact same parse error as D B after I upgraded Moodle from 1.9.8 to 1.9.14:
Parse error: parse error, unexpected T_OBJECT_OPERATOR in /..../mod/lesson/action/continue.php on line 418
I am indeed using PHP 4, and switching to PHP 5 is not an option for me. I would appreciate some urgent help for PHP 4.
By the way, Lessons work fine on PHP 5, but not on PHP 4. Is there some code I need to change on line 418 of continue.php?
PHP 4 is really old stuff now. You should really upgrade to PHP 5.
Joseph
Yes, but Moodle 1.9 should work on PHP4. That has always been supported, and if a recent change has broken it, that is a serious bug and should be fixed.
I agree with Tim Hunt. Indeed Moodle 1.9 (in particular, the latest Moodle 1.9.14) does indeed support PHP 4. And if an update has broken a core feature of it (in this case, Lessons), then the developers better fix it!
I understand full well that PHP 4 is old, but I have no other choice but to use PHP 4 at my inistitution. But I still want to be able to enjoy the latest Moodle in the 1.9 series. Why shouldn't the developers issue a PHP 4 fix for Lessons?!
Karim: "Why shouldn't the developers issue a PHP 4 fix for Lessons?!"
Well, for a start, I doubt there are that many Moodle developers around that still have a PHP4 test installation at the ready to conduct tests.
Of course this is no excuse, it just explains things.
Joseph
Thanks, Tim. I can definitely test it for you, but please forgive, I am a newbie, and I don't know how to access the code changes you have suggested.
http://docs.moodle.org/dev/How_to_apply_a_patch should probalby explain, but it has not been updated since we all started using git.
I've attached the changes as a plain diff.
Alternatively, it is a simple edit: https://github.com/timhunt/moodle/commit/1c62549cf560b9d6ecd8c5a3fe702df8dd9cf1a6 You could probably make those changes manually, if you are careful.
Thank you, Tim! You are a gentleman and a scholar! It worked!!!!!!!!
