Category Archives: Content Aggregation Model

A reader has identified a problem with Rev 1.0 of the IMS Manifest File Reader which causes the parser to fail when there’s a resource that doesn’t have any files associated with it. Rev 1.1 corrects this bug. The only … Continue reading →

This code bundle is a LOT simpler than the bundle for the VSSCORM 1.2 RTE (Run-Time Environment) that I posted a couple of months ago. It consists of 2 files: subs.php which contains all of the code that does the … Continue reading →

Time to see if everything works. I’m going to test my code using two different manifest files: A single SCO manifest file created by Captivate – [download manifest file] A multiple SCO manifest file that I created using Lectora – … Continue reading →

Finally, I’ll add the code which connects the item and resource data together to create the data that the “imaginary” LMS needs.

At last, an easy bit. I’m going to add the following code to my readIMSManifestFile() function.

This is the new routine that I’m going to use to resolve the resource dependencies in the package manifest file.

I’m going to re-examine the XML format that the SCORM 1.2 CAM specifies for the manifest file. As a reminder, here’s the <resource> tag that I’m trying to understand.

Time to start writing the readIMSManifestFile() function. Let’s create the basic structure.

In my last two posts, I figured out how to read resource and organization data from the manifest file that describes the content package. But the code that I wrote really wasn’t that solid, and wouldn’t be particularly easy to … Continue reading →