New Zealand Schools edition quirk

New Zealand Schools edition quirk
Posted Thu, 08/10/2009 - 11:22

I downloaded the NZ Schools edition yesterday and ran through the install which all appeared to go smoothly.


I subsequently found the 'Notifications' admin page was always blank. Some exploring later I discovered that changing line 2 of <moodle>/local/profiles/secondary/upgrade.php from


require($CFG->dirroot.'/local/lib.php');


to



require_once($CFG->dirroot.'/local/lib.php');


not only meant the 'Notifications' admin page had content, but also the front page of the Moodle site gained a 'course categories' section, which hadn't been visible before.


Has anyone else run into this? Or have I done something wrong in the install?

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By Matt Clarkson of on Fri, 09/10/2009 - 09:18

Hi Julian,

This has been fixed and a new release is available on the download page. 

Cheers,
Matt.

By Phil Thomson of Kaikorai Valley College on Wed, 02/12/2009 - 14:34

We are still having this problem, we can't get to the notifications area its blank. The line you are talking about seems to be correct it is "require_once($CFG->dirroot.'/local/lib.php');"

We are running moodle 1.9.5 the nz school addition.

 

This is very frustrating and help would be much appreciated 

 

Thanks

By Matt Clarkson of on Wed, 02/12/2009 - 14:45

Hi Phil,

You will need to upgrade to the most recent release 1.9.7 which is available on the downloads page.

 

Regards,
Matt.

By Phil Thomson of Kaikorai Valley College on Mon, 07/12/2009 - 11:25

Hi Matt, 

We have updated however still having the same problem, if we click on notifications it takes us to http://our-web-server/moodle/local/nzschoolssettings.php which is a blank page. Any Ideas?

 

Many Thanks

 

Phil

By Matt Clarkson of on Mon, 07/12/2009 - 16:34

Hi Phil,

Can I get you to enable debugging and paste in any errors you get on the notifications page to this thread.

To enable debugging in Moodle go to:

Site Administration > Server > Debugging

Change 'Debug Messages' to 'ALL' and tick Display 'Debug messages'

 

Regards,
Matt.

By Phil Thomson of Kaikorai Valley College on Tue, 08/12/2009 - 13:11

Hi Matt,

Even with debugging on it still displays nothing but a blank page.

 

Thanks

Phil

By Matt Clarkson of on Tue, 08/12/2009 - 13:22

Hi Phil,

Do you have php configured to log errors? Is there anything in the webserver or php error log?

 

Regards,
Matt.

By Phil Thomson of Kaikorai Valley College on Tue, 08/12/2009 - 13:33

 $end in /Library/WebServer/Documents/moodle/local/nzschoolssettings.php on line 147, referer: http://moodle.kvc.school.nz/moodle/admin/index.php

[Thu Dec 03 22:26:10 2009] [error] [client 172.31.232.11] PHP Parse error:  syntax error, unexpected $end in /Library/WebServer/Documents/moodle/local/nzschoolssettings.php on line 147

 

is the only thing related to out problem the rest are mainly to do failed logins

By Matt Clarkson of on Tue, 08/12/2009 - 13:40

That's an unexpected error - what version of PHP are you using?

By Phil Thomson of Kaikorai Valley College on Tue, 08/12/2009 - 13:43

5.2.9 release 7

 

By Matt Clarkson of on Tue, 08/12/2009 - 13:52

That should be fine - are you using a php optimiser like eAccelerator or APC? If so, can you temporarily disabling it.

By Phil Thomson of Kaikorai Valley College on Tue, 08/12/2009 - 13:59

Nope, no php optimiser at all. Just running it on OS X server

 

Cheers

Phil

By Matt Clarkson of on Tue, 08/12/2009 - 14:18

Can I get you to edit local/nzschoolsettings.php and chage line 113 from <? to <?php

By Phil Thomson of Kaikorai Valley College on Tue, 08/12/2009 - 14:23

Still no joy I'm afraid 

By Matt Clarkson of on Tue, 08/12/2009 - 15:42

After some off-line discussion around this bug I've found a problem with php short tags settings and released a new version of NZ Schools Moodle.

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