Thread ""Modules, Services and Plugins" administration"

Hello,

I've just started with plugin development for ILIAS and I'm using 5.0.8.

The documentation for "Repository Object Plugins" (http://www.ilias.de/docu/ilias.php?ref_id=42&from_page=29964&obj_id=29962&cmd=layout&cmdClass=illmpresentationgui&cmdNode=qe&baseClass=ilLMPresentationGUI) refers to the
ILIAS "Modules, Services and Plugins" administration.

I can't find that administration though. Was this renamed to "Plugins"? If so, I can't see the Example plugin within the list. Do I have to trigger some kind of installation first?

greetings

Hello Wipster,

You're correct that it is under Administration->Plugins.

If you don't see Example listed under there ensure that you have it uploaded the unzipped folder to the correct directory,

That directory is Customizing/global/plugins/Services/Repository/RepositoryObject/

Regards,

Evan

Thanks!

It's at least good to know that you check the correct menu.

The path to the directory is right. Still not seeing the Example plugin. It's under a local xampp setup with PHP 5.4.31 and I have not set a path to java (if this is of any interest).

Could it be caching related? Didn't see any cache settings yet (except for some PHP extensions which I'm not using).

greetings

I now tried it on a system with PHP 5.5.9 and I'm still not seeing any plugin under "Administration -> Plugins". I just unzipped the Example plugin into myPathToIlias/Customizing/global/plugins/Services/Repository/RepositoryObject.

Tried it on a Unix and a Windows system. What else could I try?

Hi  Wipster,

When you extract the folder, it creates a folder Example\Example . The plugin.xml file needs to be in the base plugin directory, so it should look like this:

/myPathToIlias/Customizing/global/plugins/Services/Repository/RepositoryObject/Example/plugin.php

Yours probably looks like this:

/myPathToIlias/Customizing/global/plugins/Services/Repository/RepositoryObject/Example/Example/plugin.php

(notice the two Example folders)

When uploading the Example directory, first click into the first example and upload the nested example folder

Regards,

Adam

Unfortunatly that's not the problem :/ but thanks for your efforts!

Maybe I'm able to debug the part of Ilias which is looking for new plugins. Can someone lead me the way to the correct class to start debugging?

Hi Wipster,

You have a couple options here:

Ilias Log File (specified in ilias.ini.php), check what is in there, this is log output from Ilias

Apache Log File (specified in your virtial host, possibly /var/log/apache2/error.log), stuff related to how apache handles requests

Turn debug/devmode on for the client you are working on:

in /path/to/ilias/data/<CLIENTID>/client.ini.php .. add in the following under [system]:

DEBUG = "1"
DEVMODE = "1"

Hope this helps, I tried the example plugin on Ilias 5.0.6 and it appeared in the list of plugins right away.

Regards,

Adam

Hi Wipster,

One more thing to check, there may be a couple example plugins, just in case we are looking at the same one, in your plugin directory, open plugin.php .. and look for the ilias max version .. it should read something like this:

$ilias_max_version = "5.2.999";

Regards,

Adam

That's the version of Example I'm using. From the "Developer Guide".

Apaches error and access log are not showing anything interesting. Same for the ilias log. By the way, I have a couple of other software, I'm developing for, which work flawlessly, like TYPO3 and Moodle, on this xampp setup.

The DEBUG option was a really good point! When I activate it, I get the following warning when on the Aministration -> Plugins page:

type(usr) id(0) referenced()

Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at C:\Program Files\xampp\htdocs\ILIAS-5.0.8\Services\Object\classes\class.ilObject.php:107) in C:\Program Files\xampp\htdocs\ILIAS-5.0.8\Services\UICore\classes\class.ilTemplate.php on line 462

When I have the DEBUG option enabled and want to log in I get a simliar warning:

type(usr) id(0) referenced()

Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at C:\Program Files\xampp\htdocs\ILIAS-5.0.8\Services\Object\classes\class.ilObject.php:107) in C:\Program Files\xampp\htdocs\ILIAS-5.0.8\Services\Utilities\classes\class.ilUtil.php on line 3602

I think something might be misconfigured here in my installation. Not sure what though.

I tried it with 4.4.12 and now it is working. I just start developing for this version.

greetings

Good day.

I have the same issue.

I try to install BigBlueButton. I unziped BigBlueButton.zip to /var/www/html/ilias/Customizing/global/plugins/Services/Repository/RepositoryObject

And now i have this:

test@openvpn:/var/www/html/ilias/Customizing/global/plugins/Services/Repository/RepositoryObject$ ls -al
drwxr-xr-x 5 www-data www-data 4096 февр. 5 20:11 .
drwxr-xr-x 3 www-data www-data 4096 февр. 5 19:02 ..
drwxr-xr-x 3 www-data www-data 4096 февр. 5 20:11 bigbluebutton-default

test@openvpn:/var/www/html/ilias/Customizing/global/plugins/Services/Repository/RepositoryObject$ ls -al bigbluebutton-default/
итого 788
drwxr-xr-x 5 www-data www-data 4096 февр. 5 20:11 .
drwxr-xr-x 5 www-data www-data 4096 февр. 5 20:11 ..
drwxr-xr-x 2 www-data www-data 4096 февр. 5 20:11 css
-rwxr-xr-x 1 www-data www-data 191509 февр. 5 20:11 default.pdf
-rwxr-xr-x 1 www-data www-data 565248 февр. 5 20:11 default.ppt
-rw-r--r-- 1 www-data www-data 1150 февр. 5 20:11 favicon.ico
drwxr-xr-x 2 www-data www-data 4096 февр. 5 20:11 fonts
-rw-r--r-- 1 www-data www-data 244 февр. 5 20:11 help.html
drwxr-xr-x 2 www-data www-data 4096 февр. 5 20:11 images
-rw-r--r-- 1 www-data www-data 8813 февр. 5 20:11 index.html
-rw-r--r-- 1 www-data www-data 24 февр. 5 20:11 robots.txt
-rw-r--r-- 1 www-data www-data 230 февр. 5 20:11 testjava.html

But i can't see bigbluebutton plugin in ilias.

Maybe i did something wrong?

Hi Susnake,

I don't believe you have the correct folder for the BBB plugin, (reason I say this is because there's no plugin.php and the file structure seems off).

Make sure you downloaded the BBB ilias plugin from the correct place (http://sourceforge.net/projects/bigbluebuttonil/) and put it in a folder called BigBlueButton in /var/www/html/ilias/Customizing/global/plugins/Services/Repository/RepositoryObject

(here is the server install for BigBlueButton as well http://docs.bigbluebutton.org/install/install.html)

Any questions feel free to ask!

Regards,

Evan Jackson