Moodle plugins directory: Pattern match

So, acutally, this looks like a bug in qtype_combined, not pmatch. Anyway, I can reproduce this. Thank you for reporting this. Very nasty bug.

Great plug-in! Is it compatible with Moodle 3.4?
Any hope to have it running in the Moodle mob app?
Thanks!
Giovanni

Is there a chance to get it working under 3.4?

Best regards and thanks
Sebastian

Sebastian, I've just checked on 3.4 and 3.5beta (current master branch) and it works. Was there a specific problem?

Hello John,
we're planning to update from 3.1 to 3.4 and I pre-checked the compatibility-statements of our plugins. Glad to hear that it works, there was no specific problem. Thanks and best regards.
Sebastian

Hi All,
Pattern match is a very powerful resource, saving time and also allowing for some introspective journey into the structure of language, something that being busy all the time (with grading open questions for example...) is becoming increasingly rare. So thanks for giving us this possibility at the same time!
However there is a potential risk in case the question is of the type "give a definition of.....[anything]" as it is possible, and very quick too, to open a wikipedia page, look for the wanted definition and paste it into the answer field. Many wikipedia pages start with short definitions, very often within the limit of 20 words suggested by the PM syntax help and inevitably matching the pattern set in the question rules. This can be worked around with formative quizzes (e.g interactive with multiple tries) where the feedback could state the wikipedia origin and the quiz ask for editing the answer, but in case of summative quizzes with deferred feedback I couldn't find a way to obtain the same (state the wikipedia origin + ask and allow for an editing), and in principle anyone with appropriate knowledge could generate the same sentence. Anyone experiencing the same problem or having already solved this issue?
Many thanks
Adriano

Would it be possible to change the link to documentation to https://docs.moodle.org/en/Pattern-match_question_type_detailed_documentation ?

Hi. I'm on moodle 3.5.5+ and trying to upgrade your plug in to 2019071200. It is stuck on "upgrade settings.php" part... and I can't undo the upgrade, can't get back, can't go on... my moodle is stuck because of it. I've loaded a backup but the database is still in "update" mode, so I got no way to get out of this... and I need to work on it tomorrow... please help...

After more than 10 hours trying to solve this problem or bypass it... I'm still stuck with my moodle broken... please help

Sorry. I have been busy with other issues. Your options include: Trying to go back to a previous version of the plugin; trying to set these settings directly in the database, if you can work ou which setting is causing the problem; wait for a proper fix.

For some bugs, you look at the reported symptoms, and it is just obvious how you screwed up. In other cases, and sadly this is one, the symptoms make no sense until you have time to dig into it deeply, then hpefully, you can work it out and fix the problem.

Right, I just had time to fix this before going on holiday for a week. Luckily, one of my development servers had not already been upgraded to latest pamtch, and so I was able to reproduce the problem.

The solution was to add a 'No languages found' option to the setting if the list would otherwise be empty. That seems to be enough to stop Moodle getting confused. There is not need to select the otion that now appears. Just click continue.

I managed to get back using an old SQL backup and I just deleted the plug in... had no choice. In the other hand, it seems there's pb when you try to update to moodle 3.7 on macOS platform... both pb at the same time, it was enough for me to freak out ... -____-'

Hi Tim,

I tried to upgrade Pmatch qtype in my current installation (Moodle 3.5) and I got this error:

Excepción - syntax error, unexpected 'const' (T_CONST), expecting variable (T_VARIABLE)

Más información sobre este error <-- Notice that my defaul language is Spanish

×Debug info:
Error code: generalexceptionmessage
×Stack trace:
line 48 of /question/type/pmatch/classes/local/spell/qtype_pmatch_spell_checker.php: ParseError thrown
line ? of unknownfile: call to core_component::classloader()
line 129 of /question/type/pmatch/db/upgrade.php: call to spl_autoload_call()
line 632 of /lib/upgradelib.php: call to xmldb_qtype_pmatch_upgrade()
line 1857 of /lib/upgradelib.php: call to upgrade_plugins()
line 694 of /admin/index.php: call to upgrade_noncore()

Fortunately I could cancel the upgrade and restore my old version.

Before sending this message I tried it one more time after changing my default languague to English and I got the same error but with much less additional information:

Exception - syntax error, unexpected 'const' (T_CONST), expecting variable (T_VARIABLE) <-- Just this!

I hope that will be easy to fix. Either way, it is not urgent for me as I can go on using the current version.

Thank you in advance Tim!

See https://github.com/moodleou/moodle-qtype_pmatch/issues/44. This error only happens in you are using PHP 7.0. I carelessly added a PHP 7.1-style construct to the code. Sorry.

Thank you for replying Tim. I'm going to keep my current version until I could afford to upgrade PHP.