Assignment

Hi there...

We had exactly the same problem where we were unable to delete the turnitin type assignment from a moodle course. It turned out that it was our proxy server blocking the connection.

As our IT department were not prepared to alter how the proxy server worked (and we got very limited support from the developers), we decided to try to alter the code ourselves. We managed to get it to work by altering the following code within tiirequest.class.php (bold signifies where the changes have occured):

 function TIIRequest($apiCall) {
  $opts = array('http'=>array('request_full_uri'=>true,'proxy'=>'tcp://your.proxyserver.ac.uk:yourproxyportnumber'));
  $context = stream_context_create($opts);
        $this->_xml_parser = xml_parser_create();
     
      if (!($this->_fp = fopen($apiCall, "r", false, $context))) {
  die("could not open XML input [$apiCall]");
     }
        $this->_data ='';
        while (!feof($this->_fp)) {
            $this->_data .= fread($this->_fp, 8192);
        }
       
        fclose($this->_fp);

        xml_parse_into_struct($this->_xml_parser, $this->_data, $this->_vals, $this->_index);
        xml_parser_free($this->_xml_parser);
    }

Please note this fix will only work with php 5.1.0 or later as this is when they integrated proxy support for the fopen function.

Another thing we have noticed is when using turnitin with moodle 1.9, if you have AJAX turned on (the drag and drop functionality) it seems to break the deleting which I assume will affect everybody.

Best Regards
- Richard Sanders
Newman University College