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greg | Subject: Mambo, ATutor, ACollab integration |  |
| originally posted at: forum.mamboserver.com/showthread.php?t=12845 by mmx ATutor and ACollab (project collaboration) run fine in Mambo using the Wrapper component. You can run ACollab as a module or as a standalone application with Wrapper. In 4.5.1, Wrapper is integrated as a new menu item type, so you would not need to install it as a separate component. Authentication (login) would be separate. Quote: Originally Posted by andyb123456789 hi My needs are slightly different from yours but the overall objective is similar I am looking for elearning modules for mambo or some advice on integrating atutor with mambo atutor.ca atutor is a fantastic LCMS and with the power of mambo would be amazing any help suggestions or information about similar projects would much appreciated __________________ mmx Posted: 2004-10-09 09:52:52 | ||
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| jpwillms | Subject: mambo | |
| Hi there, I've succesfully got mambo to authenticate based on the Atutor userbase (rather than its own). In addition, I've got mambo to a point where user and instructor top menus can be taken out of the wrapper and put into mambo (its quite neat actually). If anyone needs any help doing so, I'd be glad to walk you through how I did it. Lastly, I'm probably going to be converting 1.4.3 to a mambo component when it comes out. If anyone is interested in helping me out, email me Jordan Willms on behalf of Donat Group (jordan.willms@donatgroup.com) Willms Consultinc Inc www.pixelknowledge.com Posted: 2005-01-12 01:58:29 | ||
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| junkbuddhist | Subject: Fantastic | |
| Funny - I was looking for the same functionality the day you posted your response, Jordan! I for one would love to hear an overview of how you made that work with Mambo! Cheers, Ernie Gray Middle Tennessee State University Posted: 2005-01-13 11:40:16 | ||
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| guyran | Subject: Mambo-ATutor integration | |
| A very promising thread! As I am about to install Mambo on a school server, having tested it for some time locally, I would be very interested to see how Jordan went about fitting ATutor into Mambo, especially his way of getting a single login to work for both platforms. Obviously, in a school environment with lots of users, this will be a great advantage. Please let us know how you are progressing with a short reply to this thread to which I have subscribed. Cheers, Guy Randell Lyce M.Filhol Posted: 2005-01-22 11:05:31 | ||
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| smithers | Subject: Mambo Component | |
jpwillms, unfortunately I don't have the skills to help you out in this regard, but am very interested in this type of component, and hope it goes well.... 
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| jpwillms | Subject: sorry.. | |
| Hey guys. I just spent about 15 minutes responding to this thread. Pressed submit and then I got an error message saying I didn't enter a thread. Long story short -- ACollab (or whatever this forum is) erased my post. Lesson learned: draft in notepad. Anyways, I explained the process with a high level of abstraction -- I won't be posting code until 1.4.3 final is released -- to make sure everything is relevant. If your an eager beaver though, check out includes/mambo.php and modify the login sequence to get mambo to authenticate against the atutor database, and then update its own internal userbase if the login was successful. Set the Atutor cookies here as well. When a user logs in now, and open up Atutor in an iframe, voila -- logged in! (If the user browser supports cookies -- otherwise they'll need to login again). User registration: Let mambo handle the dirty work and handle user registration (this involves a little work for all those 'optional' fields). Best to have mambo dependant on Atutor than for a two way dependency. Special case: Administrator The administrator is a special case since this data is not in the database. You'll need to load the php file, get the value, and do special case checking in mambo.php's login sequence. hope this helps get the ball moving. for others, i'll post code in the upcoming weeks (apres 1.4.3 final gets released) jordan willms (info@pixelknowledge.com) pixelknowledge.com web solutions Posted: 2005-02-02 16:48:05 | ||
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| greg | Subject: Caught me to. | |
| That timeout just caught me too. :-/ We're on a temp server at the moment, and the timeout was set to about 20 minutes. It's been reset to about 60 minutes. BTW ATutor 1.4.3 has been released. jpwillms - We'd like to hear more about the Mambo extension you've created. Do you plan on making it available? We'll create a link to if you are. Posted: 2005-02-04 13:15:51 | ||
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| inspiredynamics | Subject: Mambo integration | |
| Any updates on the Mambo integration? I am VERY interested in getting the code. Being relatively new to Mambo, I am not comfortable hacking the code without some examples. Thanks!!! inSPIREdynamics Posted: 2005-02-14 12:29:42 | ||
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| Cas | Subject: Mambo component | |
| I have available mambo components for ATutor and ACollab. All they do, is take care of single signon. If one is ineterested, leave me a note at cas_at_nuy.info. Cas Posted: 2005-03-05 11:55:15 | ||
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| dinapea | Subject: Mambo & ATutor | |
| What a terrific idea - as we are in the process of implementing MAMBO would like very much to have it intergrated with A Tutor! Please keep me posted and if you would like to contact me directly you can do so at dina dot anker at utoronto dot ca!! Dina Posted: 2005-03-07 11:54:48 | ||
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| Cas | Subject: Downloads available | |
| The ATutor & ACollab components can now be downloaded through my website www.nuy.info Cas Posted: 2005-03-07 13:29:46 | ||
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| jpwillms | Subject: Another solution | |
| Great work cas! Another solution to achieve Mambo / Atutor integration is outlined on my website at: www.jordanwillms.com/index.php?p=28 It works a little differently, making Mambo synchronize its user tables with Atutor if possible. In other words, updating Mambo tables only as neccessary. I've also developed a few modules to do things like display the current authenticated user's courses in a mambo module etc. If anyone is interested, I've also developed a solution whereas Mambo/Atutor don't rely on each others tables, but rather on a ldap directory. If anyone is interested I'll do a post to my blog about it as well. Cheers! ..jordan willms www.pixelknowledge.com ...business www.jordanwillms.com ...ramblings Posted: 2005-03-07 14:55:27 | ||
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| greg | Subject: LDAP and ATutor | |
| We were about to start work on LDAP support for ATutor 1.5. Trevor mentioned you'd been working on it. Any chance you'd share your code? Posted: 2005-03-07 17:14:21 | ||
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| jpwillms | Subject: i'll check with trevor | |
| Hey there Greg, I'll have to check with Trevor to make sure it's allright for me to post the code (I'm under nda). It's quite basic in its implementation (ie. we only store userid / password pairs in ldap) -- but it works, and works quite effectively. Is it in the works to have LDAP out-of-the-box support for Atutor 1.5? ..cheers ..jordan willms www.jordanwillms.com ...ramblings www.pixelknowledge.com ..business
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| greg | Subject: It's a start | |
| The plan is LDAP for 1.5, if time permits us. A little working code will get the ball rolling. We'll likely extend it some, and others might contribute via SVN (yourself included). Posted: 2005-03-07 18:58:57 | ||
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