AutoView

AutoView

by Diwakar Moorthy -
Number of replies: 8
has anyone tested autoview? if so please tell how do u go about installing it. Thanks
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Re: AutoView

by Mark Baldwin -

I've played with it very briefly. It seems to install fine and I can add an instance of the activity within a course, but the frameset in the activity is empty whether I'm editing or not (Using firefox or IE7).

My PHP version is 5.2.1 which is part of the problem (see requirements below - this is an issue). With debugging on I get this:

Fatal error: Call to undefined function xslt_create() in ..................../mod/autoview/autoview.php on line 38

From the readme:

To install this module into you Moodle server just place the autoview directory into your moodle/mod directory and then point your browser at /admin on your Moodle server. Then copy the language file from the lang directoy into your moodle lang directory.

This module also requires the following extras which may not be part of the default PHP installation on your system

1) XSLT support. This is an option on PHP 4 and it should be installed. XSLT asppears to be a standard function in PHP5 but the api seems to have  changed, so the module may not work on PHP5 at present. (my emphasis)

2) pecl_http extension is needed for the link to the online document converter to work. This extension can be obtained from http://pecl.php.net/package/pecl_http/


Support
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Feel free to visit and log on to the AutoView forums on http://autoview.autotrain.org


Known Problems
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1) The AutoView 3 client is heavily tested in Mozilla Firefox, IE and Opera and should be reliable and bug free. The editor code is still pre-release and has only had proper testing in using Mozilla Firefox. Use of the editor in Internet Explorer is known to be broken and should not be attempted.

2) You need to make sure that the data directory for the course has been created before trying to create an instance of the module in that course, otherwise the module will fail.

3) Unless you are feeling very brave, stick to using the Macromedia Flash slide format. Image slide formats require the files to have been processed in a particular way and this has not yet been documented

In reply to Mark Baldwin

php 5.0.5

by Diwakar Moorthy -
hi,
my php version is 5.0.5. i guess it wont work for me as well. but this was an apt module for my project. i had installed it, it created DB successfully but when i add it as activity it doesnt work properly and says

Forbidden

You don't have permission to access /mod/autoview/view.php on this server.

Additionally, a 404 Not Found error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request.

anyways thanks for the info

Diwakar


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Re: AutoView

by Tim Williams -
Picture of Plugin developers
I've just put an updated version on the AutoView website which should fix the PHP 5 issues and a related issue with PHP 4, which seems to have two different XSL parsers in the standard download.

There's probably still quite a few other bugs, but i'm hoping if enough people try the module out these will get found quite quickly.
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Re: AutoView

by Diwakar Moorthy -
hello there,
I'm a newbie, i was going through the readme section in the newly posted module. how can i enable XSL for my moodle. my php version is 5.0.5
i do have '--with-dom-xslt' '--with-dom-exslt' but not --with-xsl

thanks
diwakar

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Re: AutoView

by Robert Edwards -
Tim,

Great Module!
Works great for my company - I'm attaching a bit of code I dumped into mod/autoview/autoview.php that gives a NEXT / PREVIOUS button to the AutoView mod based on the order the Mod is displayed on the course page...

-b
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Re: AutoView

by Robert Edwards -
I'm replying to my own post because I'm a dork...

On the above attachment, there are two MySQL statements that have this:
course = 17

I believe it needs to be this instead:
('{$course->id}')

should work if you replace that line...

sorry for the error!
-b
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Re: AutoView

by Robert Edwards -
I have - what specific problems are you having?

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Re: AutoView

by Gianpaolo Valero -
Hello,

I know it's been quite a while since the last post in this forum but I'm having problems installing this module.

I copied the autoview folder into modlee/mod. After, i moved the autoview.php file that was on autoview/lang/en_utf8.

After doing that i get nothing. I'm using moodle 1.8.3 and I downloaded the last version of autoview. I don't if that's got to do with it

Greetings,
newbie