Rather than performing complicated upgrade procedures from the old (broken) logic in three activity modules, we are adding new capabilities to those three modules to make them all consistent, and using them in a callback from the Ratings API. This is the same as the Comments API.
The downside is that two sets of capabilities need to be enabled for ratings to work. Hopefully this can be mitigated somewhat when build some sort of shortcuts on the module settings forms to set capabilities. In the meantime, the effect is reduced somewhat by having all the rating capabilities enabled by default for student and teacher roles. This means control is in the hands of whatever the modules have set, giving very close backward compatibility.
This is not the perfect solution, but neither were the other two.
From now on, all English strings use the new syntax. They are not
eval()'ed any more and the only valid placeholders are {$a} and
{$a->foobar}. No extra quotes escaping, dollar sign escaping and putting
double percent signs.
The modified files were exported from AMOS database repository in the
new syntax and were re-ordered by stringid. Standard GNU/GPL and PHPdoc
blocks are added. Where there was no copyright note so far, I added the
default one with Martin Dougiamas as the copyright holder.
Live long and prosper.
Removed hard coded message strings from scripts and moved them to the language file.
Fixed a display bug in multimenu field.
Removed rounded help buttons from fields, made the fields use html title to
display the descriptions instead.
Fixed bug for empty muti menu and multi checkbox fields.
Added "Choose..." as first item in single selection menu. Added relevant
string in en language.
Updated /mod/data/lib.php, function store_data_content() so that we store
empty content for fields too.
Updated following fields so that they do not pack data into
data_content.content, but use data_content.content, data_content.content1,
etc:
- URL field
- File field
- Picture field
Note that above changes to the way data is stored means that the new
implementation is not compatible with previous version.
Updated textarea field. Added relevant help messages. Added richtext editor
support. Removed ability to restrict allowed formats for the textarea field.
Misc bug fixes and display tweaks.
Finally, we have an early version good enough for everyone to
start banging on to help us polish it up and find bugs.
Please take a look and file bugs in the bug tracker under "Database module".
We urgently need
- new icons for existing field types
- testing on PostgreSQL install
Coming soon (?):
- Many more field types: calculation, checkbox, relation, date, datetime,
time, email, group, list, user, number, richtext
(Please let us know if you are interested in developing any of these)
- A way to save and restore "presets", which are field/template sets
- Backup/Restore support
- Groups Support
- RSS support
Many thanks to Yu for all the hard work under my whip.
