Moodle Plugins directory: Gift with medias format: Comments

Saturday, 26 July 2025, 6:24 PM - Aditya Dubay

Sat, 26 Jul 2025 10:24:39 GMT

by Aditya Dubay.

How to use it in Moodle 5.0+

Friday, 31 May 2024, 5:02 AM - Nicolas Bourré

Thu, 30 May 2024 21:02:20 GMT

by Nicolas Bourré.

There's a fixed version available here : https://github.com/nbourre/moodle-qformat_giftmedia

Thursday, 27 April 2023, 10:18 PM - Florian Leupold

Thu, 27 Apr 2023 14:18:46 GMT

by Florian Leupold.

After upgrading Ubuntu and PHP to 8.0, entering the Export section in the question bank caused an error:
Array and string offset access syntax with curly braces is no longer supported in...

The error could be fixed by replacing the curly brackets in
} else if ($answertext{0} == '#') {
on line 391 in the file format.php by square brackets:
} else if ($answertext[0] == '#') {

Sunday, 10 July 2022, 8:33 PM - Jean-Michel Védrine

Sun, 10 Jul 2022 12:33:49 GMT

by Jean-Michel Védrine.

Hello Rajib and Alonso,
As you may know I am now retired, but I still receive mails about this plugin and I had a rapid look at this problem. Rather than modifying the Moodle core file (which is a real pain at each Moodle update) a better solution would be to add the lines
-------------------
public function validate_file(stored_file $file): string {
return '';
}
------------------
in the format.php file of the gift with media plugin.
I am unable to test this fix as I don't have a Moodle install anymore (and also no development environment on my computer) but I am quite confident this would solve the problem.
Please note this is not a commitment to maintaining this plugin, because I am now too old and I stopped all programming work but as it was quite an easy fix, better to post it here.

Sunday, 10 July 2022, 1:54 AM - Alonso Arias

Sat, 09 Jul 2022 17:54:15 GMT

by Alonso Arias.

Rajib Bhattacharjee
To solve the problem I had to comment out the following lines inside the import_form.php file.
$fileerrors = $qformat->validate_file($file);
if ($fileerrors) {
$errors['newfile'] = $fileerrors;
}
That file is located in moodle/question folder.

Wednesday, 4 May 2022, 1:55 AM - Rajib Bhattacharjee

Tue, 03 May 2022 17:55:41 GMT

by Rajib Bhattacharjee.

I am facing an issue with this plugin on Moodle v4.0. While trying to import the zip file it is showing this error: "The file you selected does not use UTF-8 character encoding. Gift with medias format files must use UTF-8." Whereas I was not facing the same issue while importing the same zip file in Moodle v3.11.5. The text file within the zip file is UTF-8 as I have checked it multiple times (also I imported the same text file using the moodle inbuilt GIFT format and it imported fine - without the images of course). Looking for some help on this regard as without the media part we are stuck.

Sunday, 27 March 2022, 9:44 PM - Петя Петечкин

Sun, 27 Mar 2022 13:44:46 GMT

by Петя Петечкин.

Doesn't work on version 3.11?

Tuesday, 18 January 2022, 7:43 PM - Adam Morrey

Tue, 18 Jan 2022 11:43:40 GMT

by Adam Morrey.

Does it work with 3.10?

Friday, 3 September 2021, 11:31 AM - Tharindu Samarasinghe

Fri, 03 Sep 2021 03:31:26 GMT

by Tharindu Samarasinghe.

Hi Sir,
Thank you for this plugin. Is this works with moodle 3.9?

Friday, 22 January 2021, 5:37 PM - Filippo Carnevali

Fri, 22 Jan 2021 09:37:11 GMT

by Filippo Carnevali.

Hi! Will it be released for Moodle 3.9 aswell?
Thanks!

Tuesday, 16 January 2018, 3:50 PM - Jean-Michel Védrine

Tue, 16 Jan 2018 07:50:10 GMT

by Jean-Michel Védrine.

You can also have a look at the documentation https://docs.moodle.org/34/en/Gift_with_medias_format (english version) or https://docs.moodle.org/3x/fr/Format_GIFT_avec_des_m%C3%A9dias (french version) or https://docs.moodle.org/all/es/Formato_GIFT_con_medios (spanish version)

Tuesday, 16 January 2018, 3:44 PM - Jean-Michel Védrine

Tue, 16 Jan 2018 07:44:13 GMT

by Jean-Michel Védrine.

Hello Mikhail, if you have a problem and your essay questions are not imported you can send me a sample file so that I can see if there is a problem my mail is now vedrine __at__ vedrine __ dot___ net. The most frequent error is that people forget to put a backslash before the equal character when they write src="..."

Tuesday, 16 January 2018, 11:50 AM - Mikhail Sabyanin

Tue, 16 Jan 2018 03:50:36 GMT

by Mikhail Sabyanin.

@Jean-Michel Védrine Thank you friend, i will try to check upload on another server

Monday, 15 January 2018, 7:00 PM - Jean-Michel Védrine

Mon, 15 Jan 2018 11:00:04 GMT

by Jean-Michel Védrine.

As I was suspecting it works with no problem importing an essay question with images in the question text.

Monday, 15 January 2018, 6:52 PM - Jean-Michel Védrine

Mon, 15 Jan 2018 10:52:14 GMT

by Jean-Michel Védrine.

Hello Mikhail.
It should work for all fields that are supported by the GIFT format and that support images in Moodle. But as I have not specifically tested the essay question type, I will make some tests and report.