Hi,

I have installed moodle 1.7 on my test server. I placed the SQL outside the public directory. Today, when I tried to import a powerpoint into a lesson, it just gave me an error message "could not get data".

When I use the cpanel and check where the files have gone, I found that the zip file is copied to uploaddata/temp/lesson, should this file be copied there? Also, the file has already been unzipped back to an html file and the related folder. But should all these files and folders be uploaded and unzipped back to the course folder? That is, the path at uploaddata/coursenumber/moddata/lesson/...

On the other hand, my zip file is family.zip which zipped a family folder. Inside the family folder, it contains a myfamily.htm file and a myfamily.files folder. i.e. family.zip = family folder = myfamily.htm + myfamily.files folder

However, I found the files in the uploaddata/temp/lesson in this way:

• an empty folder, family folder
• a zip file, family.zip
• a file, myfamily.htm
• a folder, myfamily.files folder

When I click the file, myfamily.htm to show the file under https, it just gave a blank error page, https://ipaddress/cpanelfrontend/rvblue/files/myfamily.files/frame.htm . The frame.htm is actually inside the folder.

I just wonder if the powerpoint upload in lesson should be directed to the temp folder. I tested the powerpoint upload onto my another production server running 1.6+. It happened the same.

Any hints would be helpful. Thanks in advance. Cheers

James

Hello!
At me also problem with the import from 

function_C.zip

Hi

I have the same problem, i can import the presentation but only get the last slide repeatedly. but only after the following.

The first time i tried i got a "could not get data" message. I noticed that the files uploaded and extracted into "moodledata/lesson" and that the .zip was also in this folder. The presentation folder, in this case Sewarspres_files is empty.

At this point i copied all the files from the lesson folder to the Sewarspres_files folder and the lesson loaded but only the last slide repeatedly. The .zip file is 1.16MB and consists of 33 slides. Running Windows XP SP1, Powerpoint 2002, Moodle 1.5 on an internal network

Any help would be greatly appriciated. The file is too large to post here but i can send by e-mail if required.

Andy

You can use slides created with powerpoint 2003 if you use the hack in my previous post, i.e. in file \moodle\mod\lesson\importppt.php, just remove or comment line 134:

//    $base = $base.$dirname;

I have also hacked importppt.php so that it will now create its temporary powerpoint import folder in a course's files folder rather than in moodledata root directory. That way when a teacher imports PPT files to a lesson in his course, he can delete the temp folder after the import operation. I am attaching the diff file if that is of use to anyone.

Joseph

importppt_diff.txt

Chris

Thanks for your guidance. I downloaded the two files and reattempted with a brand new lesson created.. same problem. I went to importppt.php and found these lines of code that are called.

// first try to reall all of the data in $pageobjects = extract_data($rawpages, $course->id, $mod->name, $modname); // parse all the html files into objects clean_temp(); // all done with files so dump em $mod_create_objects = $modname.'_create_objects'; $mod_save_objects = $modname.'_save_objects'; $objects = $mod_create_objects($pageobjects, $mod->id); // function to preps the data to be sent to DB if(! $mod_save_objects($objects, $mod->id, $pageid)) { // sends it to DB error("could not save"); } } else { error('could not get data'); } echo "; print_continue("$CFG->wwwroot/mod/$modname/view.php?id=$cm->id"); print_footer($course); exit; } }

so what I see is the message 'could not get data' followed by "exit". So, it seems like the file is uploaded, but the "page objects " are not created? I haven't worked with code in a decade  ... so that's as deep as I can get...

Please advise.

Shalini

Hello chris collman. I download  your providing ppt. I save it as mhtl.when I import it to lesson activity module ,it appears wrong information:
"PCLZIP_ERR_BAD_FORMAT (-10) : Unable to find End of Central Dir Record signature" . I try ziping  it and importing it ,But  the same error  appears.
why? I  Suspected that it can't importing ppt in lesson activity module.
I hope you can help me . thanks a lot! 

Don,

I tried a 1 page ppt with 2 words on it and got the same error message.

Jim