Moodle 3.1.0-rc2, inline editing and PHP 5.6.41nts on Windows 7

Moodle 3.1.0-rc2, inline editing and PHP 5.6.41nts on Windows 7

by Gareth J Barnard -
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Hello Moodlers,

With Moodle 3.1.0-rc2 with a custom WAMP set-up - FastCGI with Apache 2.4 I've found that the inline editing (such as '1' here: https://docs.moodle.org/31/en/Course_homepage#To_edit_a_course_section) does not work on the non-thread safe PHP 5.6.40/41 - from: http://windows.php.net/download/.  However PHP 5.5.35 from the same place does.  Using 32 bit builds as 64 bit are experimental.  Apache is "Apache/2.4.20 (Win64) OpenSSL/1.0.2g mod_fcgid/2.3.9" 64 bit.

Can anybody else verify this please?  If so would potentially be a tracker issue.

Cheers,

Gareth

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Re: Moodle 3.1.0-rc2, inline editing and PHP 5.6.41nts on Windows 7

by Marina Glancy -
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Hello Gareth,
there is an upstream bug in PHP 5.6, it is related to the false positive error about using deprecated HTTP_RAW_POST_DATA, the workaround is described in our documentation

It has become more evident in Moodle 3.1 because we use more AJAX requests such as inplace editable, course selector, etc.

Thanks for reminding, I have now added it to our upgrade documentation next to unoconv and xmlreader
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Re: Moodle 3.1.0-rc2, inline editing and PHP 5.6.41nts on Windows 7

by Gareth J Barnard -
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Thank you Marina,

In this case, clicking on the edit icon does not even bring up the edit box.  Is that what you expect the manifestation of the issue to be?

Kind regards,

Gareth

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Re: Moodle 3.1.0-rc2, inline editing and PHP 5.6.41nts on Windows 7

by Marina Glancy -
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No edit box sounds like a javascript error. Did you check js console? 

Look in apache error log too please, the error I mentioned above appears there. 

Does it still not work even after changing php.php.ini? 

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Re: Moodle 3.1.0-rc2, inline editing and PHP 5.6.41nts on Windows 7

by Gareth J Barnard -
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Hi Marina,

Thank you for replying.  No errors on the browser console as I checked that.  There is the 'Automatically populating $HTTP_RAW_POST_DATA is deprecated and will be removed in a future version.' depreciation message, followed by the 'Cannot modify header information - headers already sent in Unknown on line 0' warning in the php.log file.  However that is perhaps after a 'click'.

I've now downgraded to PHP 5.5 and may upgrade and check again with the 'always_populate_raw_post_data' directive when I get a moment.

Cheers,

Gareth

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