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EdventureSystemFAQ

Q: How does one add news to the My Edventure section?

A: You add news by dropping a file into edventure/plugins/.lib/news

The system will take whatever it finds and display it in the news list. If you don't want something to show (like an image on an html page) start the filename with a dot. (That interface, and putting it in .lib is a bit of a hack. We'll fix that sooner or later).

Q: When adding assignments can one add the assignment too? or just the heading.

A: I don't understand this one.

Q: For the plugins which do you recommend?

A: I've used Discus for discussion, Babylon for chat, WebCalendar for calendaring, and Moinmoin for the wiki. None of those will be integrated, though (except for Babylon chat, and that was easy. And very nice!).

I started to try to integrate WebCalendar into Edventure in a deep way, but that turned out to be rough. I think next summer I'll try to come up with an integrated system to display things monthly/weekly/daily, etc.

Question: What about file management? Can we upload folders of html/png etc?

Answer You can only load single files at this time, but you can upload them into a folder. List the name of the folder: "Images/2003/Sept" for example, and all the files will go into that subdirectory. WARNING: the Manage My Files is currently an experimental module, but is currently available to students and instructors.

Question: How do I increase the size of the file upload? I recieved a message Error: Maximum image size exceeded. Image may be no more than 1000 x 1000 pixels where do I modify that to allow larger file sizes?

Answer [WWW]uploader.php 

class uploader { 
  var $file;
  var $error = '';
  var $accepted = False;
  var $new_file;
  var $max_filesize = 5000000; // about 5 meg
  var $max_image_width = 2000;
  var $max_image_height = 2000;
  
  function max_filesize($size){
    $this->max_filesize = $size;
  }