Hi Aaron,
This seems a worthy addition to many Moodle sites, but I could not find the language strings available for translating it to other languages in AMOS. This could be due to the language strings not properly managed (but they are indeed in the local_externalzip.php file).

Below are the mexican spanish translated strings:
<?php

$string['pluginname'] = 'Utilería ZIP externa';

$string['ziphandler'] = 'Manejador de archivo ZIP';
$string['ziphandler_help'] = "Moodle soporta completamente tanto usar la biblioteca PHP ZipArchive o usar una utilería ZIP externa. ZipArchive es soportada completamente por Moodle, pero se sabe que tiene problemas al manejar archivos mayores de 2GB.";
$string['phpziparchive_option'] = 'ZipArchive';
$string['externalzip_option'] = 'Utilería ZIP externa';
$string['pathtozip'] = 'Ruta a zip';
$string['pathtozip_help'] = 'Ruta a utilería ZIP externa';
$string['pathtounzip'] = 'Ruta a UNZIP';
$string['pathtounzip_help'] = 'Ruta a utilería UNZIP externa';


Would you be so kind as to check this. Help may be available by David Mudrak (in charge of language tool)

Thanks,
German Valero (mexican spanish language pack maintainer).

Hi Aaron,

Thanks for creating this plugin. I was able to install the plugin. I turned on External Zip Utility. Made sure the paths were correct. However, we're still not able to restore a course from a file over 2GB. Course under 2GB are okay. We're still getting the "error/tmp_backup_directory_not_found" error. Any ideas what might be causing this? Thanks. John

After hours of frustration, I wanted to share what I discovered about Moodle 2.5 and this plug-in. When you install the plug-in via the install plug-in feature of Moodle, it doesn't do a complete installation. It does not patch the zip-archive file properly/at all. This may have to do with a typo. In the readme.txt file included with this add-on, it says to run:

patch -p1 < local/externalzip/lib-filestorage-zip_archive-php.patch

in fact, you need to run:

patch -p1 < local/externalzip/lib-filestorage-zip_archive.php.patch

(it's archive.php, not archive-php). Once I did that from the command line, it all worked!

So, John might be having the same problem as I was which is that, while it LOOKED like the external zip add-on was installed and selected to be used instead of ZipArchive, it was still trying to use ZipArchive.

Thanks for the report, Doug. I've updated the documentation, and packaged a new release that includes this typo fix, as well as an improvement to the admin screen submitted by Ruslan Kabalin.

Hi German,

Sorry for the slow reply. I think the reason my strings don't show up in AMOS is because this plugin is classified as an "Other" plugin, and therefore AMOS doesn't know where its strings should go. I submitted it as a "Local" plugin, but the Moodle plugin directory maintainers decided it should be an "Other" because it includes a patch file.

Fortunately, the only changes it makes to the interface are on the admin screens, so end users won't see untranslated English strings. I'll go ahead and include your Mexican Spanish translation in the package as well.

Thanks, Aaron! What needs to be done to upgrade the add-on from the old version to the new version?

By the way, you'll appreciate that, due to the time zone difference, my Mac is reporting the new files as modified on "Tomorrow 10:34 AM".

Hi Doug,

I've put together a new revision with upgrade instructions, version 0.9.2.

Hi Doug, by the way, if you can verify that the plugin works in Moodle 2.5, let me know and I'll update the release details accordingly.

Aaron, the plugin seems to work in Moodle 2.5 as far as I can tell, but I've only used it for Backup and Restore.

I'm not sure, though, if installation of the plugin via Moodle works now (it didn't run the patch when I did it that way with version 0.9.0), but manual installation works.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but it seems like the README.txt file included with version 0.9.2 does not include the upgrade instructions; I had to find those on this page in the Downloads tab, under "See more".

Aaron,
I had tested the plugin in Moodle 2.5.1+ (Build: 20130808) at ubuntu13.04, and follow the instruction in readme.txt ,but failed to install,could you help me?Thank you very much

I've had a report about this plugin not working for the upload of SCORM files. Based on the description it sounds like a problem in the externalzip_archive's extract_zipfile() function not properly getting the list of the SCORM archive's contents. I haven't had a chance to investigate and fix the problem myself, though.

I installed it on 2.5.3+ and it works "almost" fine. Doing a "Download all" of Legacy Course Files produces a 0-length zip file. It may be the related to Aaron's problem. Adding (at the beginning of function add_directory):
if ($pathinarchive == '') {
return true;
}
makes it work for us.