Moodle 2.7.2 is a learning platform designed to provide educators, administrators and learners with a single robust, secure and integrated system to create personalised learning environments. Moodle 2.7.2 is a free, open source learning management system developed by educators for educators. In this secure, password protected environment, faculty can upload documents, assignment instructions, links to web sites and media. Learning can be extended beyond the limits of a traditional classroom setting through chat sessions, discussions, collaboration spaces, quizzes, surveys and more.

Moodle Hosting 2.7.2 Feature Improvements

1. Improve “Atto, a new, simple-to-use editor”
Neither formchangechecker, nor quiz autosave detects changes in Atto editors
2. Mathjax default SSL CDN address is down causing atto to fail to load, , has been updated in Moodle 2.7.2
3. Gradebook Sum of grades shows wrong total if items are hidden
4. URL parameter injection in CAS authentication
5. Identity information revealed early in Q&A forum
6. For Multiple choices questions in the quiz / question bank, the options "Clear incorrect responses" and "Show the number of correct responses" did not make sense for "One answer only" questions. It is now impossible to select that combination of options on the form.
7. Warning given when the same memcached instance is used for both sessions and MUC
8. Weekly stats now working again
9. Automatic emails now sent after users import from CSV
10. Parent role only sees course total and no longer individual grades

Moodle 2.7.2 Hosting FAQs

How do I install Moodle 2.7.2 in hosting account? - You can install Moodle 2.7.2 manually by uploading the package to hosting account or simply use the auto installer in hosting Plesk Control panel. By using auto installer, you will get latest update notification if you install Moodle 2.7.2 via auto installer.

How much should I pay for Moodle 2.7.2 hosting? - Depends your requirements, the shared hosting for moodle should be less than Є5.00/mo. If you need higher hosting requirements, we highly suggest you check out our page.

How much server resource do I need? - Moodle 2.7.2 is a little server resource sensitive because the more course you add and the more users you have, the more server resources will be used. 100MB memory is needed for regualar moodle 2.7.2 site smooth running.

On this occasion, I will explain you how change the default grid settings. In Prestashop 1.6, by default uses grid of 3 products at the category page and 4 products at the homepage.  Here are the steps that you must follow. PrestaShop 1.6 is a free and open-source e-commerce web application, committed to providing the best shopping cart experience for both merchants and customers. It is written in PHP, is highly customizable, supports all the major payment services, is translated in many languages and localized for many countries, is fully responsive (both front- and back-office), etc.

Prestashop 1.6 using Bootstrap, so we can change the class of the field. So, in this case changing default product display method to grid is in this version a bit different than method used in prestashop 1.5. Don’t Forget to Open file product-list.tpl and find this code:

<li class="ajax_block_product{if $page_name == 'index' || $page_name == 'product'} col-xs-12 col-sm-4
col-md-3{else} col-xs-12 col-sm-6 col-md-4{/if}{if
smarty.foreach.products.iteration%$nbItemsPerLine
== 0} last-in-line{elseif $smarty.foreach.products.iteration%$nbItemsPerLine == 1} first-in-line{/if}{if
$smarty.foreach.products.iteration > ($smarty.foreach.products.total - $totModulo)} last-line{/if}{if
$smarty.foreach.products.iteration%$nbItemsPerLineTablet == 0} last-item-of-tablet-line{elseif $smarty.foreach.products.iteration%$nbItemsPerLineTablet == 1} first-item-of-tablet-line{/if}{if
$smarty.foreach.products.iteration%$nbItemsPerLineMobile == 0} last-item-of-mobile-line{elseif
$smarty.foreach.products.iteration%$nbItemsPerLineMobile == 1} first-item-of-mobile-line{/if}{if
$smarty.foreach.products.iteration > ($smarty.foreach.products.total - $totModuloMobile)} last-mobile- line{/if}">

Find this columns classes:
{if $page_name == 'index' || $page_name == 'product'} col-xs-12 col-sm-4 col-md-3{else}
col-xs-12 col-sm-6 col-md-4{/if}
For homepage change class col-md-3 to col-md-2, and you will get 6 columns grid. For category page change class col-md-4 to class col-md-3, and you will get 4 columns grid. Change column class to any you need. Don’t forget to change number of products per line:

{*define numbers of product per line in other page for desktop*}
    {if $page_name !='index' && $page_name !='product'}       
    {assign var='nbItemsPerLine' value=4}      
    {assign var='nbItemsPerLineTablet' value=2}       
    {assign var='nbItemsPerLineMobile' value=3}

    {else}

        {assign var='nbItemsPerLine' value=6}

        {assign var='nbItemsPerLineTablet' value=3}

        {assign var='nbItemsPerLineMobile' value=2}

    {/if}

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PROBLEM

Error: 18456, Severity: 14, State: 38
Login failed for user 'produser'. Reason:Failed to open the explicitly specified database. [CLIET: 192.168.10.10]
or
Error: 18456, Severity: 14, State: 16.
Login failed for user 'XXXXXX'. [CLIENT: xxx.xx.x.xxx]

This is one of the most frustrating login failure errors on SQL Server. It does not mention what database the login was trying to connect to. The windows event viewer logs do not give any further information.

SOLUTION

It seems that prior to SQL Server this meant the same as State 16. But in that case you would actually see the database name to which the login was trying to connect.
To troubleshoot state 38 you need to run a profiler trace and capture the following two events.

Errors and Warnings: User Error Message Security Audit: Audit Login Failed.

Make sure you select all the columns and run the trace while the login attempt is made.
For the event “User Error Message” you should see the database name to which the connection is being attempted. Verify the database exists and verify that the user has been created in the database and has the permission to connect to the database. You should also check if this is an orphaned user and fix it.

When you make a fresh installation of Drupal 7, your URL will look like the following:

http://localhost/~user/drupal7/?q=user

Information from Google's webmaster guidelines means that clean URLs are important: "If you decide to use dynamic pages (URL contains a "?" character), be aware that not every search engine spider crawls dynamic pages as well as static pages. It helps to keep the parameters short and the number of them few. This style of URLS can be hard to read and can prevent search engine indexing. If you want to avoid these types of URLs styles, you can use "Clean URL" feature of the Drupal. This will eliminate "?q=" from the URLs and will generate the clean URL.

Clean URL use the "mod_rewrite" feature of the Apache server which allow us to create a rules for rewriting the URLS for the all pages of the website.

Enabling clean url:
By default, when we install the Drupal, it check for compatibility with Clean URLs. If enviornment is found as compatible with Clean URLs, it will enable during the installation process. If we need to enable Clean URL after installation, we can manage this through admin section
1. Go to Configuration >> Search and Meta Data >> Clean URLs

2. Check the checkbox "Enable clean URLs" if this is not checked.
3. Click Save Configuration button in order to save your entry.

Sometimes you may face a case where you want to completely remove all tables, views & stored procedures in a MS SQL 2014 database without removing the system views, system tables,  and system stored procedures or without having to delete the database as a whole and recreating it.

You can right-click on each table one by one and try to delete them, only to find out that a foreign key constraint prevents you from doing so, at which time you have to try and figure out how each table relates to the other, and remove them in the correct sequence. If you have a few hundred or even thousand database objects this could take a long time! Finally, We found the solution. The script below will take care of this for you in one shot and give you a clean database to work with.

/* Drop all non-system stored procs */
DECLARE @name VARCHAR(128)
DECLARE @SQL VARCHAR(254)
SELECT @name = (SELECT TOP 1 [name]
FROM sysobjects WHERE [TYPE] = 'P' AND category = 0 ORDER BY [name])
WHILE @name IS NOT NULL
BEGIN
    SELECT @SQL = 'DROP PROCEDURE [dbo].[' + RTRIM(@name) +']'
    EXEC (@SQL)
    PRINT 'Dropped Procedure: ' + @name
    SELECT @name = (SELECT TOP 1 [name] FROM sysobjects WHERE [TYPE] = 'P' AND category = 0 AND [name] > @name ORDER BY [name])
END
GO

/* Drop all views */
DECLARE @name VARCHAR(128)
DECLARE @SQL VARCHAR(254)SELECT @name = (SELECT TOP 1 [name] FROM sysobjects WHERE [TYPE] = 'V' AND category = 0 ORDER BY [name])
WHILE @name IS NOT NULL
BEGINSELECT @SQL = 'DROP VIEW [dbo].[' + RTRIM(@name) +']'
EXEC (@SQL)    PRINT 'Dropped View: ' + @name
SELECT @name = (SELECT TOP 1 [name] FROM sysobjects WHERE [TYPE] = 'V' AND category = 0 AND [name] > @name ORDER BY [name])
END
GO

/* Drop all functions */
DECLARE @name VARCHAR(128)
DECLARE @SQL VARCHAR(254)
SELECT @name = (SELECT TOP 1 [name] FROM sysobjects WHERE [TYPE] IN (N'FN', N'IF', N'TF', N'FS', N'FT') AND category = 0 ORDER BY [name])
WHILE @name IS NOT NULL
BEGIN
    SELECT @SQL = 'DROP FUNCTION [dbo].[' + RTRIM(@name) +']'
    EXEC (@SQL)
    PRINT 'Dropped Function: ' + @name
    SELECT @name = (SELECT TOP 1 [name] FROM sysobjects WHERE [TYPE] IN (N'FN', N'IF', N'TF', N'FS', N'FT') AND category = 0 AND [name] > @name ORDER BY [name])
END
GO

/* Drop all Foreign Key constraints */
DECLARE @name VARCHAR(128)
DECLARE @CONSTRAINT VARCHAR(254)
DECLARE @SQL VARCHAR(254)
SELECT @name = (SELECT TOP 1 TABLE_NAME FROM INFORMATION_SCHEMA.TABLE_CONSTRAINTS WHERE constraint_catalog=DB_NAME() AND CONSTRAINT_TYPE = 'FOREIGN KEY' ORDER BY TABLE_NAME)
WHILE @name IS NOT NULL
BEGIN
 SELECT @CONSTRAINT = (SELECT TOP 1 CONSTRAINT_NAME FROM INFORMATION_SCHEMA.TABLE_CONSTRAINTS WHERE constraint_catalog=DB_NAME() AND CONSTRAINT_TYPE = 'FOREIGN KEY' AND TABLE_NAME = @name ORDER BY CONSTRAINT_NAME)    WHILE @CONSTRAINT IS NOT NULL
    BEGIN
        SELECT @SQL = 'ALTER TABLE [dbo].[' + RTRIM(@name) +'] DROP CONSTRAINT [' + RTRIM(@CONSTRAINT) +']'
        EXEC (@SQL)
        PRINT 'Dropped FK Constraint: ' + @CONSTRAINT + ' on ' + @name

        SELECT @CONSTRAINT = (SELECT TOP 1 CONSTRAINT_NAME FROM INFORMATION_SCHEMA.TABLE_CONSTRAINTS WHERE constraint_catalog=DB_NAME() AND CONSTRAINT_TYPE = 'FOREIGN KEY' AND CONSTRAINT_NAME <> @CONSTRAINT AND TABLE_NAME = @name ORDER BY CONSTRAINT_NAME)
    END
SELECT @name = (SELECT TOP 1 TABLE_NAME FROM INFORMATION_SCHEMA.TABLE_CONSTRAINTS WHERE constraint_catalog=DB_NAME() AND CONSTRAINT_TYPE = 'FOREIGN KEY' ORDER BY TABLE_NAME)
END
GO

/* Drop all Primary Key constraints */
DECLARE @name VARCHAR(128)
DECLARE @CONSTRAINT VARCHAR(254)
DECLARE @SQL VARCHAR(254)
SELECT @name = (SELECT TOP 1 TABLE_NAME FROM INFORMATION_SCHEMA.TABLE_CONSTRAINTS WHERE constraint_catalog=DB_NAME() AND CONSTRAINT_TYPE = 'PRIMARY KEY' ORDER BY TABLE_NAME)
WHILE @name IS NOT NULL
BEGIN
    SELECT @CONSTRAINT = (SELECT TOP 1 CONSTRAINT_NAME FROM INFORMATION_SCHEMA.TABLE_CONSTRAINTS WHERE constraint_catalog=DB_NAME() AND CONSTRAINT_TYPE = 'PRIMARY KEY' AND TABLE_NAME = @name ORDER BY CONSTRAINT_NAME)    WHILE @CONSTRAINT IS NOT NULL
    BEGIN
        SELECT @SQL = 'ALTER TABLE [dbo].[' + RTRIM(@name) +'] DROP CONSTRAINT [' + RTRIM(@CONSTRAINT)+']'
        EXEC (@SQL)
        PRINT 'Dropped PK Constraint: ' + @CONSTRAINT + ' on ' + @name
        SELECT @CONSTRAINT = (SELECT TOP 1 CONSTRAINT_NAME FROM INFORMATION_SCHEMA.TABLE_CONSTRAINTS WHERE constraint_catalog=DB_NAME() AND CONSTRAINT_TYPE = 'PRIMARY KEY' AND CONSTRAINT_NAME <> @CONSTRAINT AND TABLE_NAME = @name ORDER BY CONSTRAINT_NAME)
    END
SELECT @name = (SELECT TOP 1 TABLE_NAME FROM INFORMATION_SCHEMA.TABLE_CONSTRAINTS WHERE constraint_catalog=DB_NAME() AND CONSTRAINT_TYPE = 'PRIMARY KEY' ORDER BY TABLE_NAME)
END
GO
/* Drop all tables */

If you are sysadmin, Your default database set to one of the user database. If you decide to take offline for your default database before you set default to another database.  You will get the following error:

Cannot open user default database. Login failed. Login failed for user 'xx'

There are the steps below login to server to access master database and then you can set your default database.

PROBLEM           
1. Connected as a sysadmin (windows authentication domain\username)
2. Connect to database server
3. Take offline  your database DB_WH_Report
-- I connected
4. Disconnect to Server
When you try to connect back

ERROR
Cannot open user default database. Login failed. Login failed for user 'xx'

SOLUTION                          
1. Connect to Server
2. Click Option to expand  Connection Propertise
3. Connect to Database Type master
4. Click Connect button

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Moodle 2.7 has been released. The upgrade to the free and open source learning management system includes new themes with improved responsive design, a new accessibility-focused text editor and more. These are just the minimum supported versions. In addition to a number of bug fixes and small improvements, security vulnerabilities have been discovered and fixed.  We highly recommend that you upgrade your sites as soon as possible. Upgrading should be very straightforward. As per our usual policy, admins of all registered Moodle sites will be notified of security issue details directly via email and we'll publish details more widely in a week.

Moodle 2.7 brings a few headline feature improvements, including the replacement of the TinyMCE editor with ‘Atto’ and the continued emphasis on responsive design with ‘Clean’ the default theme and the new ‘More’ theme being released. Compared to a number of earlier Moodle releases though, some might question whether there is a compelling reason to upgrade to Moodle 2.7 (especially if you have only recently upgraded to Moodle 2.6).

And here’s Top new features of Moodle 2.7:

Clean and Responsive Design
Moodle 2.7 has two core themes; Clean and More.  Clean is the responsive bootstrap based theme which has now been made the default theme.  More is a completely new, customisable theme, created for the novice user or administrators who are unable to access theme files on the server.

New Text Editor, Atto
 In the latest release of Moodle, they have named the text editor ‘Atto’, the new Atto feature allows tighter integration with Moodle meaning there are enhancements to usability and accessibility like never before.

Mobile Notifications. This is possibly the most exciting new feature to enable ‘push’ learning to users on the go. The essential tool for Learning and Development professions in marketing the platform, this new feature will allow you to push notifications about new learning modules created within Moodle which your learners can take advantage of on the go.

Improved quiz reports and other general improvements to quizzes and question banks, such as the ability to duplicate a question with a single click, the ability to require an attachment for essay questions and the ability to save changes and continue editing;

Improved Scheduling System. Administrators can now schedule, more precisely routine tasks, by specifying the minute/hour/day or month the task is to be run.

First long term support release: 3 years until May 2017 for security and data loss bug fixes .

Easily create and manage Quiz & Question bank. As well as an updated question type selector, duplicating and moving questions is now easier, and there is an option to 'Save changes and continue editing'.

Install the new Moodle software manually

1. First, Move your old Moodle software program files to another location. Do NOT copy new files over the old files.
2. Then, Unzip or unpack the upgrade file so that all the new Moodle software program files are in the location the old files used to be in on the server. Moodle will adjust SQL and moodledata if it needs to in the upgrade.Copy your old config.php file back to the new Moodle directory.
3. As mentioned above, if you had installed any plugins on your site you should add them to the new code tree now. It is important to check that you get the correct version for your new version of Moodle. Be particularly careful that you do not overwrite any code in the new version of Moodle.
4. Do not forget to copy over your moodledata folder / directory. If you don't you will get a "fatal error $cfg- dataroot is not configured properly".