So all you people who were waiting for it, wait no more! ^_^
I would like to say a huge thanks to all the people who have contributed in any way, whether it be through code, feedback or just giving Mahara a quick try. Special thanks to Flexible Learning, who have funded the vast majority of the work, and Heinz Krettek, who has been contributing with bug reports and feedback nearly since the start of the project.
To all of you out there thinking about using Mahara for your school or institution - don't forget that Catalyst and Flexible can help. We can provide professional hosting, get your system installed and customised, provide training and generally do the hard work, leaving you free to get on with using your new portfolio. We also provide consulting and custom development, should you need it.
Enough babble. It would be great to hear your feedback on 1.0!
upload microsoft file extensions
I'm glad to hear '1.0 has released because 0.92 didn't work fine in moodle 1.9 with me.
Unfortunately I still can't upload file extensions as microsoft ppt, xls and pub.
In the folder filetypes.xml the mimetype = application/vnt.ms-powerpoint.
Shouldn't it be vnd instead of vnt.
Is there a way to add/change these filetypes as a record in the mysql database?
There is a bug report for
There is a bug report for the office files: https://eduforge.org/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1975&group_id=176...
Yes, that mimetype is potentially wrong, but it's lies anyway - 'file' detects ppt as application/msword (see the bug report for details).
If you want to change the filetypes:
1) Update the XML file
2) Go into artefact/file/version.php and increase the version and release
3) Visit Mahara's admin section and run the upgrade
This will sync the list in the database with the list in that file.
If you do this, remember you'll have to 'downgrade' - by changing the version and release as listed in the artefact_installed table for the 'file' plugin back to what they were - before applying any updates from upstream if a new release contains an upgrade to the file plugin.
what is the risk of uploading all filetypes
I removed a part of the script uploadmanager.php
if ($type) {
if ($type != 'application/x-empty' && substr($type, 0, 5) != 'text/') {
$validtypes = get_column_sql('SELECT mimetype
FROM {artefact_file_mime_types} m
LEFT JOIN {artefact_file_file_types} f ON (m.description = f.description)
WHERE f.enabled = 1');
if (!in_array($type, $validtypes)) {
return get_string('filetypenotallowed');
}
}
}
All filtypes can be uploaded.
It's a test environment.
Could it give securityproblems
Absolutely. You're allowing
Absolutely. You're allowing any old thing to be uploaded. The UI for enabling/disabling allowed upload types will be broken too.
Mimetype
Can we have an update on this issue.
This still isn't solved in 1.0.5 version.
There's a bug report open
There's a bug report open for it. It's not a trivial fix (it's not too difficult either, just needs time). So nobody has gotten around to doing it yet - we've been working on 1.1, the new website etc...
language files
Is it possible to copy translated lang files from 0.92 to 1.0?
Strings have changed between
Strings have changed between the two versions. So you can do this, but some of the language strings will appear in English, until they are translated.
I am hoping some people will submit me their language packs for 1.0 so we can put them on the website for download :)
Translate langfiles 1.0
I've looked in mahara\lang\en.utf8 and I found a lot but not all textstrings like http://www.walhak.com/translate.GIF
Where are these textstrings located?
Is there an editor within Mahara like in Moodle to edit langstrings?
For now I changed them manually with a texteditor.
The language strings are
The language strings are located in many separate directories by plugin, as well as in htdocs/lang/en.utf8. For example, htdocs/artefact/blog/lang/en.utf8
That text that appears in the main section on the homepage you can change at the "Edit site pages" section of the admin section.
There's no editor like moodle.