I’ve implemented revised versions of my LMSGetValue() and LMSSetValue() functions. It’s time to check the other functions to see if there’s anything that I need to do right now.
| RTE Function | Notes |
| LMSInitialize() | Not required. My “imaginary” LMS server is available all the time and doesn’t need initialization. |
| LMSFinish() | Not required. My “imaginary” LMS server doesn’t need to be shut down. |
| LMSGetValue() | Already done – see my previous post. |
| LMSSetValue() | Already done – see my previous post. |
| LMSCommit() | Not required. The AJAX request system that I’ve implemented doesn’t have any buffers to flush. |
| LMSGetLastError() | Not required – I’m not generating any error messages right now. |
| LMSGetErrorString() | Not required – I’m not generating any error messages right now. |
| LMSGetDiagnostic() | Not required – I’m not generating any error messages right now. |
So, it doesn’t look like I need to make any more changes to my api.html file which now looks like this:
<html>
<head>
<title>VS SCORM - RTE API</title>
<script language="javascript">
/*
VS SCORM - RTE API FOR SCORM 1.2
Rev 2.0 - Monday, June 15, 2009
Copyright (C) 2009, Addison Robson LLC
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License
as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2
of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
GNU General Public License for more details.
You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor,
Boston, MA 02110-1301, USA.
*/
// ------------------------------------------
// SCORM RTE Functions - Initialization
// ------------------------------------------
function LMSInitialize(dummyString) {
return "true";
}
// ------------------------------------------
// SCORM RTE Functions - Getting and Setting Values
// ------------------------------------------
function LMSGetValue(varname) {
// create request object
var req = createRequest();
// set up request parameters - uses GET method
req.open('GET','getValue.php?varname='+urlencode(varname)+'&code='+Math.random(),false);
// submit to the server for processing
req.send(null);
// process returned data - error condition
if (req.status != 200) {
alert('Problem with Request');
return "";
}
// process returned data - OK
else {
return req.responseText;
}
}
function LMSSetValue(varname,varvalue) {
// create request object
var req = createRequest();
// set up request parameters - uses combined GET and POST methods
req.open('POST','setValue.php?varname='+urlencode(varname)+'&code='+Math.random(),false);
// send header information along with the POST data
var params = 'varvalue='+urlencode(varvalue);
req.setRequestHeader("Content-type", "application/x-www-form-urlencoded");
req.setRequestHeader("Content-length", params.length);
req.setRequestHeader("Connection", "close");
// submit to the server for processing
req.send(params);
// process returned data - error condition
if (req.status != 200) {
alert('Problem with Request');
return "false";
}
// process returned data - OK
else {
return "true";
}
}
function LMSCommit(dummyString) {
return "true";
}
// ------------------------------------------
// SCORM RTE Functions - Closing The Session
// ------------------------------------------
function LMSFinish(dummyString) {
return "true";
}
// ------------------------------------------
// SCORM RTE Functions - Error Handling
// ------------------------------------------
function LMSGetLastError() {
return 0;
}
function LMSGetDiagnostic(errorCode) {
return "diagnostic string";
}
function LMSGetErrorString(errorCode) {
return "error string";
}
// ------------------------------------------
// Other Functions incl. AJAX Request Handling
// ------------------------------------------
function createRequest() {
var request;
try {
request = new XMLHttpRequest();
}
catch (tryIE) {
try {
request = new ActiveXObject("Msxml2.XMLHTTP");
}
catch (tryOlderIE) {
try {
request = new ActiveXObject("Microsoft.XMLHTTP");
}
catch (failed) {
alert("Error creating XMLHttpRequest");
}
}
}
return request;
}
function urlencode( str ) {
//
// Ref: http://kevin.vanzonneveld.net/techblog/article/javascript_equivalent_for_phps_urlencode/
//
// http://kevin.vanzonneveld.net
// + original by: Philip Peterson
// + improved by: Kevin van Zonneveld (http://kevin.vanzonneveld.net)
// + input by: AJ
// + improved by: Kevin van Zonneveld (http://kevin.vanzonneveld.net)
// + improved by: Brett Zamir (http://brettz9.blogspot.com)
// + bugfixed by: Kevin van Zonneveld (http://kevin.vanzonneveld.net)
// + input by: travc
// + input by: Brett Zamir (http://brettz9.blogspot.com)
// + bugfixed by: Kevin van Zonneveld (http://kevin.vanzonneveld.net)
// + improved by: Lars Fischer
// % note 1: info on what encoding functions to use from: http://xkr.us/articles/javascript/encode-compare/
// * example 1: urlencode('Kevin van Zonneveld!');
// * returns 1: 'Kevin+van+Zonneveld%21'
// * example 2: urlencode('http://kevin.vanzonneveld.net/');
// * returns 2: 'http%3A%2F%2Fkevin.vanzonneveld.net%2F'
// * example 3: urlencode('http://www.google.nl/search?q=php.js&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=com.ubuntu:en-US:unofficial&client=firefox-a');
// * returns 3: 'http%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.nl%2Fsearch%3Fq%3Dphp.js%26ie%3Dutf-8%26oe%3Dutf-8%26aq%3Dt%26rls%3Dcom.ubuntu%3Aen-US%3Aunofficial%26client%3Dfirefox-a'
var histogram = {}, unicodeStr='', hexEscStr='';
var ret = (str+'').toString();
var replacer = function(search, replace, str) {
var tmp_arr = [];
tmp_arr = str.split(search);
return tmp_arr.join(replace);
};
// The histogram is identical to the one in urldecode.
histogram["'"] = '%27';
histogram['('] = '%28';
histogram[')'] = '%29';
histogram['*'] = '%2A';
histogram['~'] = '%7E';
histogram['!'] = '%21';
histogram['%20'] = '+';
histogram['\u00DC'] = '%DC';
histogram['\u00FC'] = '%FC';
histogram['\u00C4'] = '%D4';
histogram['\u00E4'] = '%E4';
histogram['\u00D6'] = '%D6';
histogram['\u00F6'] = '%F6';
histogram['\u00DF'] = '%DF';
histogram['\u20AC'] = '%80';
histogram['\u0081'] = '%81';
histogram['\u201A'] = '%82';
histogram['\u0192'] = '%83';
histogram['\u201E'] = '%84';
histogram['\u2026'] = '%85';
histogram['\u2020'] = '%86';
histogram['\u2021'] = '%87';
histogram['\u02C6'] = '%88';
histogram['\u2030'] = '%89';
histogram['\u0160'] = '%8A';
histogram['\u2039'] = '%8B';
histogram['\u0152'] = '%8C';
histogram['\u008D'] = '%8D';
histogram['\u017D'] = '%8E';
histogram['\u008F'] = '%8F';
histogram['\u0090'] = '%90';
histogram['\u2018'] = '%91';
histogram['\u2019'] = '%92';
histogram['\u201C'] = '%93';
histogram['\u201D'] = '%94';
histogram['\u2022'] = '%95';
histogram['\u2013'] = '%96';
histogram['\u2014'] = '%97';
histogram['\u02DC'] = '%98';
histogram['\u2122'] = '%99';
histogram['\u0161'] = '%9A';
histogram['\u203A'] = '%9B';
histogram['\u0153'] = '%9C';
histogram['\u009D'] = '%9D';
histogram['\u017E'] = '%9E';
histogram['\u0178'] = '%9F';
// Begin with encodeURIComponent, which most resembles PHP's encoding functions
ret = encodeURIComponent(ret);
for (unicodeStr in histogram) {
hexEscStr = histogram[unicodeStr];
ret = replacer(unicodeStr, hexEscStr, ret);
}
// Uppercase for full PHP compatibility
return ret.replace(/(\%([a-z0-9]{2}))/g, function(full, m1, m2) {
return "%"+m2.toUpperCase();
});
}
</script>
</head>
<body>
<p>
</body>
</html>
Next stage … run the tests again with the sample course and see how I get on.
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