Upload files to moodle under a selected course - moodle

I have created a particular course using the moodle rest api and i would like to add a files into that particular course. The course may take the week/topic form. I need to add the uploaded file under a selected topic/week how can i achieve that? .I used core_files_upload to upload files but how can i add it to a selected course?
Array
(
[contextid] => int
[component] => string
[filearea] => string
[itemid] => int
[filepath] => string
[filename] => string
[url] => string
)

In order to make a file appear in a course, you would need to create an instance of the 'mod_resource' activity in the course and then attach the relevant file to that resource.
I don't believe there is currently any webservice for creating activities within a course (https://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-40779 appears to still be incomplete).
The best you can do at the moment would be to create a custom Moodle plugin (probably a local plugin) and then implement your own webservice in order to add this functionality.

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Repopulating form fields in Play Framework

Using the Play Framework (2.6) documentation; I am attempting to handle form submission. But I'm running into an issue in repopulating the form fields - which is what I want to do if it has errors (so users can edit their entry rather than having to re-enter).
newForm.bindFromRequest.fold(
errorForm => {
BadRequest(views.html.form(errorForm))
},
formData => {
val oWriteJso = Json.toJsObject(formData) match {
case x if(x.fields.nonEmpty) => getCreatedFieldValues(x)
case _ => None
}
val oRes = Redirect(routes.Application.index).flashing("success" -> "Entry saved!")
apiC.writeAndRedirect("c", collName, None, oWriteJso)(oRes)(request)
}
)
My issue is that the example in the documentation only shows how to pass errorForm directly to a form template (e.g. views.html.form) rather than being able to render the whole page again (i.e. using views.html.index or a Redirect) with the input form fields being populated from the previous request. I found this answer as the closest to this issue but it is a little old and I am using Scala so wasn't able to implement it. Just have no idea how anyone else is doing this or what the sensible, standard approach is. Thanks for any light on this_
If you use the Play helper functions for generating input tags in your view file. They should populate with your values from the last request.
For example you can create an HTML form in your view file using helper methods like this:
#helper.form(action = routes.Application.userPost()) {
#helper.inputText(userForm("name"))
#helper.inputText(userForm("age"))
}
You can take a look at Play documentation about helpers in view files at the following link:
https://www.playframework.com/documentation/2.7.x/ScalaForms#Showing-forms-in-a-view-template

How can I create and update pages dynamically in Sulu CMS?

I have the following situation:
A database stores information about houses (address, number of rooms, date built, last selling price, etc.)
This database is being manipulated through an app (let's call that app the "backend house app") that cannot be directly integrated in a Sulu-driven app. I can access the stored data through an API that gives me JSON-representations of House-objects. I can also have the app launch some sort of call to a Sulu-driven app when a house is created, updated or deleted.
The Sulu-driven app (let's call that the "frontend house app") with templates for "house", "room", etc., is connected to a different database on a different server. This Sulu-driven app's website-environment shows house-pages with room-pages where some content is pre-filled through a connection to the "backend house app". Other content only exists on the database of the "frontend house app", like user comments, appraisals of interior design, etc., according to configured aspects of the Sulu-templates.
What I want to achieve, is a way to automate the creation, updating and deletion of "frontend house app"-pages based on activity in the "backend house app".
For instance, when a new house is added in the "backend house app", I want it to notify the "frontend house app" so that the "frontend house app" will automatically create the entire node-tree for the newly added house. Meaning: a "house"-page with the required data filled in, "room"-pages for each room, etc., so that the content manager of the "frontend house app" can see the entire tree of the newly added house in the workspace and can start manipulating content in the already available templates. In addition to automatically creating these pages, I also want to pre-set the rights to update and create, since the content manager of the "frontend house app" must not be able to create new rooms or change the name of the house, for instance.
I did not manage to get it working, I'll just add what I already done to show where I got stuck.
I started out with the following code, in a controller that extends Sulu's own WebsiteController:
$documentManager = $this->get('sulu_document_manager.document_manager');
$nodeManager = $this->get('sulu_document_manager.node_manager');
$parentHousesDocument = $documentManager->find('/cmf/immo/routes/nl/huizen', 'nl');
$newHouseDocument = $documentManager->create('page');
// The backendApi just gives a House object with data from the backend
// In this case we get an existing House with id 1
$house = $backendApi->getHouseWithId(1);
$newHouseDocument->setTitle($house->getName()); // For instance 'Smurfhouse'
$newHouseDocument->setLocale('nl'); // Nl is the only locale we have
$newHouseDocument->setParent($parentHouseDocument); // A default page where all the houses are listed
$newHouseDocument->setStructureType('house'); // Since we have a house.xml template
// I need to grab the structure to fill it with values from the House object
$structure = $newHouseDocument->getStructure();
$structure->bind([
'title' => $house->getName(),
'houseId' => $house->getId(),
]);
$newHouseDocument->setWorkflowStage(WorkflowStage::PUBLISHED); // You would expect this to automatically publish the document, but apparently it doesn't... I took it from a test I reverse-engineered in trying to create a page, I have no clue what it is supposed to change.
$nodeManager->createPath('/cmf/immo/routes/nl/huizen/' . $house->getId());
$documentManager->persist(
$newHouseDocument,
'nl',
[
'path' => '/cmf/immo/contents/huizen/' . Slugifier::slugify($house->getName()), // Assume for argument's sake that the Slugifier just slugifies the name...
'auto_create' => true, // Took this value from a test that creates pages, don't know whether it is necessary
'load_ghost_content' => false, // Idem
]
);
$documentManager->flush();
Now, when I fire the controller action, I first get the exception
Property "url" in structure "house" is required but no value was given.
I tried to fix this by just manually binding the property 'url' with value '/huizen/' . $house->getId() to $structure, at the point where I bind the other values. But this doesn't fix it, as apparently the url value is overwritten somewhere in the persist event chain, and I haven't yet found where.
However, I can, just for testing purposes, manually override the url in the StructureSubscriber that handles the mapping for this particular persist event. If I do this, something gets created in the Sulu-app-database - hurray!
My phpcr_nodes table lists two extra records, one for the RouteDocument referring to /cmf/immo/routes/nl/huizen/1, and one for the PageDocument referring to /cmf/immo/contents/huizen/smurfhouse. Both have the workspace_name column filled with the value default_live. However, as long as there are not also records that are complete duplicates of these two records except with the value default in the workspace_name column, the pages will not appear in the Sulu admin CMS environment. Needless to say, they will also not appear on the public website proper.
Furthermore, when I let the DocumentManager in my controller action try to ->find my newly created document, I get a document of the class UnknownDocument. Hence, I cannot have the DocumentManager go ->publish on it; an Exception ensues. If I visit the pages in the Sulu admin environment, they are hence unpublished; once I publish them there, they can be found by the DocumentManager in the controller action - even if I later unpublish them. They are no longer UnknownDocument, for some reason. However, even if they can be found, I cannot have the DocumentManager go ->unpublish nor ->publish - that just has NO effect on the actual documents.
I was hoping there would be a Sulu cookbook-recipe or another piece of documentation that extensively describes how to create fully published pages dynamically, thus without going through the 'manual labor' of the actual CMS environment, but so far I haven't found one... All help is much appreciated :)
PS: For the purposes of being complete: we're running Sulu on a Windows server environment on PHP 7.1; dbase is PostgreSQL, Sulu being a local forked version of release tag 1.4.7 because I had to make some changes to the way Sulu handles uploaded files to get it to work on a Windows environment.
EDIT: a partial solution for making a new house page if none exists already (not explicitly using the AdminKernel, but should of course be run in a context where the AdminKernel is active):
public function getOrCreateHuisPagina(Huis $huis)
{
$parent = $this->documentManager->find('/cmf/immo/routes/nl/huizen', 'nl'); // This is indeed the route document for the "collector page" of all the houses, but this doesn't seem to give any problems (see below)
try {
$document = $this->documentManager->find('/cmf/immo/routes/nl/huizen/' . $huis->id(), 'nl'); // Here I'm checking whether the page already exists
} catch(DocumentNotFoundException $e) {
$document = $this->setupPublishedPage();
$document->setTitle($huis->naam());
$document->setStructureType('huis_detail');
$document->setResourceSegment('/huizen');
$document->setParent($parent);
$document->getStructure()->bind([
'title' => $huis->naam(), // Not sure if this is required seeing as I already set the title
'huis_id' => $huis->id(),
]);
$this->documentManager->persist(
$document,
'nl',
[
'parent_path' => '/cmf/immo/contents/huizen', // Explicit path to the content document of the parnt
]
);
}
$this->documentManager->publish($document, 'nl');
return $document;
}
First of all I think the following line does not load what you want it to load:
$parentHousesDocument = $documentManager->find('/cmf/immo/routes/nl/huizen', 'nl');
It loads the route instead of the page document, so it should look like the following:
$parentHousesDocument = $documentManager->find('/cmf/immo/contents/nl/huizen', 'nl');
Regarding your error with the URL, instead of overriding the StructureSubscriber you should simple use the setResourceSegment method of the document, which does exactly what you need :-)
And the default_live workspace is wrong, is it possible that you are running these commands on the website kernel? The thing is that the WebsiteKernel has the default_live workspace as default, and therefore writes the content in this workspace. If you run the command with the AdminKernel it should land in the default workspace, and you should be able to copy it into the default_live workspace with the publish method of the DocumentManager.
I hope that helps :-)

Symfony FileFormField - Testing (WebTestCase) multiple file upload

In my Symfony web application I have a form allowing multiple file upload (easily done by setting the multiple property of the FileType equal to true). And this works fine: I can select multiple files and upload them. Processing the form and getting all uploaded files also goes fine. But of course, I want to foresee an integration test (WebTestCase) but I don't find any possibility to simulate a multiple file upload.
What I have now:
...
$uploadedFile = new UploadedFile(...);
$form = ...; // get the form from the crawler
$form['formtype[filename]'][0]->upload($uploadedFile);
$this->client->submit($form);
...
That works fine.
But now I want to upload 2 files by 1 form submission (because the processing logic can behave differently when multiple files are uploaded at once). How can I do this? When I look at http://api.symfony.com/3.0/Symfony/Component/DomCrawler/Field/FileFormField.html I don't see any way to pass in, for example, an array of UploadedFile objects. Anyone experience with this?
If the multiple property is set, crawler creates a file form field array with single FileFormField field. One field can hold a single file so you need multiple fields for multiple files. I came to a solution by manually adding more FileFormField to the form.
$form = ...
// get file field node in DOM
$node = $crawler->filter("input[name='formtype[filename][]']")->getNode(0);
// add additional fields to form (you can create as many as you need)
$newField = new FileFormField($node);
$form->set($newField);
...
// set files with upload()
$form['formtype[filename]'][0]->upload($uploadedFile1);
$form['formtype[filename]'][1]->upload($uploadedFile2);
...
//or with submit values
$crawler->submit($form, [
...
'formtype[filename]' => [$uploadedFile1, $uploadedFile2]
]);

Zend_Framework how to get the two URL Parameters

I have a build server (http://url.server.zip/release) which contains a list of zip files with some numeric numbers. E.g. http://url.server.zip/release/first_release_1,http://url.server.zip/release/first_release_2 and so on...
View: In my view page I have developed one search box from the search box, I need to search the string from that server (http://url.server.zip/release) then I have to display the release zip file in front view page.
public function viewPostAction() {
$this->params()->fromRoute('page', 1);
return new ViewModel();
}
I'm not sure I really understand your question, but I'll give a try.
Regardless of your situation, in general, you'll have to set the two parameters' name in the route (module.config.php). Like this for example where I want to get in the url the id and name of a theme :
'theme' => array(
'type' => 'Zend\Mvc\Router\Http\Segment',
'options' => array(
'route' => '/theme/[:themeId]/[:themeName]',
...
The [] means that it is not mandatory to use a parameter in the link. Up to you to know if you want to make it mandatory or not.
The URL would be something like "http://test.com/12/testing". Then, you'll be able to get both of the parameters this way:
$themeId = $this->params()->fromRoute('themeId');
$themeName = $this->params()->fromRoute('themeName');
$themeId = 12 and $themeName = testing, if we follow the example.
Hope it is what you were looking for. If not, could you maybe give us some more info ? Like your routing file, etc.

Programmatically adding an article to Joomla

I am very new to Joomla (frankly just started exploring the possibility of using Joomla) and need help with programmatically adding articles to Joomla backend tables (please see details below). Also along the same lines, I would like to understand how should values for the columns:
parent_id
lft
rgt
level
be generated for the table jos_assets (#__assets) and what is their functional role (eg are they “pointers/indexes” analogous to, say, an os inode to uniquely indentify a file or are they more functional attributes such as identifying the category, subcategory etc)
It might help to use the following SIMPLIFIED example to illustrate what I am trying to do. Say we have a program that collects various key information such as names of the authors of web articles, the subject type of the articles, the date of articles as well as a link to the article. I want to be able to extend this program to programmatically store this information in Joomla. Currently this information is stored in a custom table and the user, through a custom php web page, can use search criteria say by author name, over a certain range of dates to find the article(s) of interest. The result of this search is then displayed along with a hyperlink to the actual article. The articles are stored locally on the web server and are not external links. The portion of the hyperlink stored in the custom table includes the relative path of the physical document (relative to the web root), so for example:
Author date type html_file
Tom 08-14-2011 WEB /tech/11200/ar_324.html
Jim 05-20-2010 IND /tech/42350/ar_985.html
etc.
With all the advantages that Joomla offers over writing custom php search and presentation pages as well as trending etc, we would really like to switch to it. It seems that among other tables for example that #__assets and #__content can be populated programmatically to populate Joomla from our existing php program (which is used to compile the data) and then use Joomla.
Any examples, suggestions and help is greatly appreciated
Kindest regards
Gar
Just an initial note: Joomla 1.6/1.7 are pretty similar. 1.5 not so much. I'll assume 1.6/1.7, as that's what I'd recommend as a base for a new project.
First up, you'll need to be running with access to the Joomla framework. You could do this through a Component, or a module, or a cron that bootstraps it or whatever. I won't go though how to do that.
But once you do that, creating an article is reasonably simple.
<?php
require_once JPATH_ADMINISTRATOR . '/components/com_content/models/article.php';
$new_article = new ContentModelArticle();
$data = array(
'catid' => CATEGORY_ID,
'title' => 'SOME TITLE',
'introtext' => 'SOME TEXT',
'fulltext' => 'SOME TEXT',
'state' => 1,
);
$new_article->save($data);
The actual list of fields will be a bit longer than that (required fields etc), but you should get sane error messages etc from the Joomla framework which illuminate that.
So in summary:
Load up the Joomla framework so you have access to the DB, components, models, etc
Include the com_content article class, which will handle validation, saving to the database etc for you
Create an article instance with the required fields filled in as appropriate
Call save()
Now that I think about it, that'll probably work in 1.5...
Found a better way to do this without any errors Create a Joomla! Article Programatically
$table = JTable::getInstance('Content', 'JTable', array());
$data = array(
'catid' => 1,
'title' => 'SOME TITLE',
'introtext' => 'SOME TEXT',
'fulltext' => 'SOME TEXT',
'state' => 1,
);
// Bind data
if (!$table->bind($data))
{
$this->setError($table->getError());
return false;
}
// Check the data.
if (!$table->check())
{
$this->setError($table->getError());
return false;
}
// Store the data.
if (!$table->store())
{
$this->setError($table->getError());
return false;
}