Unfortunately the smartpix feature seems to be rather unreliable, as we recently found out on our university moodle server
. I would not recommend its use.
Joseph
Eloy > ... Announce everywhere (in the README file, in the Themes Database when you upload the final theme...) that for better behaviour it's highly recommended to enable the configuration->smartpix feature in Moodle (available under Admin->Miscellaneous->Experimental) when using your theme.
Joseph < ...Unfortunately the smartpix feature seems to be rather unreliable, as we recently found out on our university moodle serversad. I would not recommend its use.
Eh, and can you give us some hints about how/why it wasn't working as expected? Windows / Linux server? Not working? ... (some weeks ago we were discussing about if that feature should go from experimental to official and any feedback will be welcome).
Ciao
Eh, and can you give us some hints about how/why it wasn't working as expected? Windows / Linux server? Not working? ... (some weeks ago we were discussing about if that feature should go from experimental to official and any feedback will be welcome).
Ciao
Eloy,
I remember 3 cases from these forums where smartpix did not work and it may be related to php(4?) running in cgi (and old Apache) but I have never been able to test it because I have no such servers. http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=76006 for example
Bonjour,
We use Moodle 1.8.4 and a Linux server.
When, as Admin, I tick Smart pix search (smartpix setting), icons such as Show/Hide block, Assign roles, etc. do no longer appear when my customized local theme ("UHBpied") is selected.
With an other Moodle standard theme, that works fine.
Note that the URL of Show/Hide block icon is:
http://moodle.uhb.fr/pix/smartpix.php/UHBpied/spacer.gif
which of course cannot exist.
We use Moodle 1.8.4 and a Linux server.
When, as Admin, I tick Smart pix search (smartpix setting), icons such as Show/Hide block, Assign roles, etc. do no longer appear when my customized local theme ("UHBpied") is selected.
With an other Moodle standard theme, that works fine.
Note that the URL of Show/Hide block icon is:
http://moodle.uhb.fr/pix/smartpix.php/UHBpied/spacer.gif
which of course cannot exist.
The reason might be an old CGI related php bug: http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=31892 and
We also had a problem with this and tracked it down to the theme names having upper case letters ie the smartpix pattern searching ignores upper case letters. AFAIK directory names in moodle should be lower case anyway so not sure it counts as a bug.
Hope that helps someone.
Cheers,
Shane.
Hope that helps someone.
Cheers,
Shane.