The quiz XML import/export format in 1.6 CVS now supports the actual image files encoded in 'base64' with the additional <image_base64> xml tag.
Any testing and/or comments appreciated.
Hi Howard,
Do you have a sample of the xml import code with the image?
And, better yet, do you have a html/javacript page to help teachers/users prepare the xml formatted questions for import? Nothing I'm aware of comes close to being useful for quiz question creation...
all the best,
Dennis
Do you have a sample of the xml import code with the image?
And, better yet, do you have a html/javacript page to help teachers/users prepare the xml formatted questions for import? Nothing I'm aware of comes close to being useful for quiz question creation...
all the best,
Dennis
I always thought of this format as a reasonably comprehensive way of 'backup up' a block of questions, so I've never thought much about producing an off-line editor (or had the time).
The quickest way to see the format, is to export some questions with attached images. The image binary is encoded with PHP's base64_encode() function.
The quickest way to see the format, is to export some questions with attached images. The image binary is encoded with PHP's base64_encode() function.
In reply to Dennis Daniels
Re: XML import/export now includes images (1.6)
Look at the MS Word template that I have (not from scrath, though) created. It should help teachers/users prepare the XML
formatted questions for import. Besides, now it supports base64 image encoding.
http://finemetronome.com/moodle/
http://finemetronome.com/moodle/
In reply to Howard Miller
Re: XML import/export now includes images (1.6)
Hello to you, Howard, and your cats. 
I'm eager to test the feature but I cannot get fresh files from CVS (I am green with it). I'm just going to http://cvs.moodle.com and then CVS at moodle/moodle/question/format/xml/format.php shows me an old version (1.3).
How can I get through?
I'm eager to test the feature but I cannot get fresh files from CVS (I am green with it). I'm just going to http://cvs.moodle.com and then CVS at moodle/moodle/question/format/xml/format.php shows me an old version (1.3).
How can I get through?
In reply to Vyatcheslav Yatskovskiy
Re: XML import/export now includes images (1.6)
by Howard Miller -
The web based CVS system is always a few hours behind. You will probably find it is up to date now. The only files that changed where question/format.php and question/format/xml/format.php
In reply to Howard Miller
Re: XML import/export now includes images (1.6)
Thank you, Howard. I have updated my template at http:/finemetronome.com/moodle/ to support <image_base64> tag, and it works fine. This is just I was asking for in bug #4955. Let me show you a screenshot of my MSWord sample questionnarie.
Suggestions are welcome.
Suggestions are welcome.
In reply to Vyatcheslav Yatskovskiy
Re: XML import/export now includes images (1.6)
by Howard Miller -
Shall we put this (and Timothy Takemoto's GIFT stuff) in a quiz tools folder in contrib? It might be easier for people to find... me in particular
Good idea. That is 'contrib/quiz_tools' as the folder name.
Also, people who want to add their question types to contrib, please can you put them there in folders called 'contrib/qtype_[mytype]', where you replace the [mytype] bit with a sensible type name. This is the best thing to do with new question types, my plan is (I think) to be very, very cautions about adding new question types to core. Instead I want to make it as easy as possible to install and uninstall question types from contrib. (This is a long-term plan).
Thanks,
Tim.
Also, people who want to add their question types to contrib, please can you put them there in folders called 'contrib/qtype_[mytype]', where you replace the [mytype] bit with a sensible type name. This is the best thing to do with new question types, my plan is (I think) to be very, very cautions about adding new question types to core. Instead I want to make it as easy as possible to install and uninstall question types from contrib. (This is a long-term plan).
Thanks,
Tim.