Mahara - ePortfolios for LMSs

[A Former User]

Initial commit is here: https://git.cloudron.io/AtriLahiji/mahara-app

It works but needs LDAP and SMTP (although we can probably get by without LDAP because it can integrate with Moodle and uses Moodle as an auth provider)

Edit: Added SMTP and its pretty stable

[A Former User]

I have my test environment up here: https://mahara.lahijiapps.dev/

[robi]

@atrilahiji said in Mahara - ePortfolios for LMSs:

I have my test environment up here: https://mahara.lahijiapps.dev/

FF doesn't like it:

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[A Former User]

Lol I took it down to test something. My bad lol

[robi]

[A Former User]

@robi Its back. Feel free to play around in there. I'm not using it for anything important.

[A Former User]

@girish I can't catch a break. This one seems to have the same clusterfuck of a plugin system as Moodle. Time to see if this is going to be any easier or if we will need to package this similar to Moodle. I'll see what I can do.

Edit: I am having regrets about requesting and then taking this one on but here we go!

[girish]

Out of curiosity, what exactly does ePortfolio mean?

[A Former User]

@girish they actually explain it quite well here: https://mahara.org/view/view.php?id=3

Heh thought I pasted it in on my phone but I guess not.

[A Former User]

Huh... the plugins that I can find are all either for version 1.4 (super old) or integrated into core. Tempted to just package it as read only without any plugin support.

[girish]

@atrilahiji Sounds like a plan!

[A Former User]

@girish Trying to get this sorted out but got a strange error on this branch when it does the initial install: https://git.cloudron.io/AtriLahiji/mahara-app/-/tree/wip-PLUGINS

Anyone have any idea what might be going on?

[A Former User]

Got it working with plugin support similar to the Moodle app: https://git.cloudron.io/AtriLahiji/mahara-app

EDIT: Fixed a couple of security issues (namely the lack of password salting)

EDIT 2: The only thing I notice now is some text flashing whenever the page reloads? O_O

[girish]

@atrilahiji said in Mahara - ePortfolios for LMSs:

EDIT 2: The only thing I notice now is some text flashing whenever the page reloads? O_O

Do you see this in their demo instance too?

[A Former User]

@girish Nope. Seems like its after I my MR where I moved everything to /app/data too

[A Former User]

The weird text popping up was me just completely not understanding PHP. Fixed it by just setting the salt and urlsecret in the start.sh as god intended.

https://git.cloudron.io/AtriLahiji/mahara-app

[A Former User]

Pushed a branch with SMTP set up. Emails still don't seem to be sending. Investigating...

[A Former User]

Wow nevermind. I had the settings in the config.php all along. It only didn't work because Mahara sends emails using the address on the user initiating the emails' account.

I need a screen break lol. I'm inventing tasks that have already been finished

[girish]

@atrilahiji said in Mahara - ePortfolios for LMSs:

It only didn't work because Mahara sends emails using the address on the user initiating the emails' account

Ah, for those apps, I guess we can just document saying they have disable From Address validation on the server.

[A Former User]

@girish Alright. Yeah for this one I can set the noreply address but it looks like for stuff like manually adding users, it uses the email of the one who invites. I made the admin user's default email the same as the from email for now.