Static Pages

Hi William,
if you look at the README of the plugin (https://github.com/moodleuulm/moodle-local_staticpage/blob/master/README.md), you will see that there is basic support for blocks, but that the plugin was not intended to show blocks on the static pages.
I don't understand what your latest status is - did you achieve your goal or not?
Thanks,
Alex

Just realized I could offer what I think is the problem. When you add a block to static pages, it by default adds it as system(shows "Orignial Block Location" as System) This is nonconfigurable after the block is added. Thx

I have used this plugin for two or three pages. However, as far as telling specific blocks to only show on specific pages, it ignores such rules and adds any blocks that are added to any static page to every other static page. If you configure the block to not show on any of the static pages, it applies same argument/rule to all the other static pages. For you're info, these are the pages I'm referring:
http://pmnerds.com/local/staticpage/view.php?page=gv
http://pmnerds.com/local/staticpage/view.php?page=volunteer
suggestions? I would rather have the dev help before I hack it to pieces to find a work around. Thanks in advance

Hi Israel,
simple answer: No, local_staticpage does not process PHP code and we also won't add this feature because of strong security concerns. If you need to run PHP code in a single page, you should create your own plugin. It's easier as you may think.
Thanks,
Alex

Hi guys,
Simple question:
How can we insert and run PHP codes into a page?
It's very important and useful.
Thank you so much,
Israel.

Hi Daniel,
with the 3.0 version of this plugin, we are using a filearea in Moodle for storing the files instead of the previously used directory on disk. Thus, Moodle buries your files somewhere below the /filedir directory on disk like it does for all other files you are uploading in Moodle (e.g. in a course).
Perhaps http://www.nathanfriend.co.uk/find-where-moodle-2-has-put-your-file/ can help you finding your file if you need to identify it on disk.
Thanks,
Alex

Hello, firstly thank you for the plugin, its very useful, however I'm having one problem, I've uploaded the html pages using the browser uploader, but can't find them when I ftp into my server, could you advise where the folder is? Thanks

Thank you! It worked for me. And if it helps somebody else, I'll explain what I did to change /static/ url to what I wanted. As you said, I changed all the mentions to /static/ on view.php, placed in /local/static/ to what I wanted. In my case, /paginas/. Then I only had to do the properly to the .htaccess, and change to :
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^paginas/(.*)\.html$ /local/staticpage/view.php?page=$1&%{QUERY_STRING} [L]
And voilà, everything fine (even breadcrumbs).
Thanks for your help and for the plugin, Alexander,
Best regards.

Hi Tom, hi Phuong,
thanks for your feedback. I appreciate every improvement to documentation, but as I already know the plugin, I need to know where you failed when you tried to bring it into production.
As I said above, there is already an extensive Readme on https://github.com/moodleuulm/moodle-local_staticpage/blob/master/README.md. The content of the Readme is not available directly here in the plugin repo page because it changes from release to release, but it is linked with the "More documentation on this plugin" link.
So, if you tell me where you failed or what you did not understand in the Readme, I can try to improve it.
Thanks,
Alex

With due respects, I relate to Phuong's comment. I ended up doing a manual install - but frankly gave up as things still did not seem to work. I really like the idea of static pages and think it is an excellent plug in for Moodle - hoping in future to see better documentation.

Hi Alex,
I miss nothing. I'm only afraid that someone would like to install your plugin, they can't imagine how it works, especially uploading documents.

Phuong,
glad I could help and thanks for your feedback for 2.9.x!
Regarding the screenshot, I thought that the Readme was really comprehensive already so that there is no need for a screenshot. What exactly are you missing?
Abel,
you only get the /static/ URLs when you use the (optional) Apache rewrite rules. Basically, in these rules, you can change "static" to whatever you like and the static page should work. You only have to make sure that you did not enable the "apacherewrite" setting of the plugin and you might experience false behaviours of the breadcrumb on the static pages.
If you also want to fix that, you will have to change all occurences of "/static" to "/whateveryoulike" in view.php.
Thanks,
Alex

Hi, first of all, thanks for you work. That plugin is amazing!
One single question? Is it posible to change /static/ for other name? I'm spanish and I'd like to put another word.
Thanks in advance.
Regards.

Hi Alex,
I'm using moodle 2.9.4+ and installed your plugin (Release v3.0-r2). Just remove $plugin->requires from version.php as you said above and it works like a charm. However, I suggest you should add one more screenshot so that everyone can understand how to upload documents.
With kind regards,

Hi Kaluan,
a URL like www.mydomain/static/aboutus.html will only work if you have configured Rewrite rules in your webserver, see https://github.com/moodleuulm/moodle-local_staticpage/blob/master/README.md Section "Using mod_rewrite" for details.
If you didn't, your page will bei available on http://www.yourmoodle.com/local/staticpage/view.php?page=[pagename].
Alex