Actually if anyone can help me on the next step it would be appreciated. I can succesfully copy the file over into the draft files area. When I look at the database it confirms the file record has been created.
But a) I can't access it. Seemingly I don't have permission to. (See the code below, I fail to get a fileinfo object.)
And b) I don't know how to copy it over into its final destination. It doesn't happen automatically. Is there any info on how to do this, or on how moodle does it?
When I copy the file over into the draft files area I first prepare the draft id and file area. The $name field is the name of the form variable, in this case it is "answer".
$draftitemid= $qa->prepare_response_files_draft_itemid($name, $context->id);
Then I perform the copy into the draft area . I have tried a number of different component/filearea combinations e.g question/draft, but after looking at the standard behaviour of files added via the htmleditor, used component 'user' and filearea 'draft':
This is the code I use to do the copy over.
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//setup our file manipulators
$fs = get_file_storage();
$browser = get_file_browser();
//we store our file at the root of the filearea
$filepath='/';
//create the file record for our new file
$file_record = array(
'contextid'=>$contextid,
'component'=>$component,
'filearea'=>$filearea,
'itemid'=>$itemid,
'filepath'=>$filepath,
'filename'=>$filename,
'timecreated'=>time(),
'timemodified'=>time()
);
//actually copy over the file from remote server
if(!$fs->create_file_from_url($file_record, $red5_fileurl)){
$returnstring= "couldn't create file sorry";
return $returnstring;
}
//get a file object if successful
$thecontext = get_context_instance_by_id($contextid);
$fileinfo = $browser->get_file_info($thecontext, $component,$filearea, $itemid, $filepath, $filename);
//this last step is failing, though the file appears to have been copied.
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I know it is not simple, but any ideas on where I am going wrong?
