Posts made by Jeff Church

I have not tried to develop a FB app yet. How is it different from the iGoogle app model? I have had good luck installing (adding as blocks in moodle. It is not a true install) google apps. I have not tried to write one that actually interfaces with moodle's database or function calls. If anyone has ideas on how that would work I would love to hear them. I could see maybe a google app API for moodle that google apps could call. Security would be the biggest issue. Well thats my 2 cents.
We are still on 1.8.3 with no plans to change to 1.9. Our plans are to wait for 2.1 or so before changing. So we are not looking to rewrite this for 1.9 but feel free to if you get time. Thats the wonderful thing about open source. Maybe we will update your 1.9 version for 2.0.

I have found with this script that about 1000 courses at a time is the most it can do before the script times out. At lease thats what I found on our test box. I think the php max_execution_time is 300 seconds. I could have bumped up the time but I just split the file into a few parts and it went fine.
Two of our student programmers wrote a little php page that takes a txt file with course short names and deletes them. It has worked great so far but it is a little finicky about extra spaces and file headers. Have used it in 1.8. Any improvements or feedback about the script would be great since the students are learning about writing code for Moodle.
Just installed the lightbox resource on Moodle 1.8.2+(2007021520) works great. The one issue I am having is that each instance is putting "Lightbox Gallery" in front of the gallery name. It looks the same as when you have screen reader turned on. No other resource is showing the resource name so it is not a setting on the server. Thanks for any help on this. The tool is really great thanks for writing it.

Jeff Church

PS... installed lightbox on a Moodle 1.9 Beta 2 (2007101502) server and the problem does not appear so it looks like a 1.8 issue.