eFront eLearning (LMS) integration plugin

Some pretty major changes in the latest version of the plugin (.9 02/09/09)

1) You can now select multiple lessons and/or courses when associating products.
2) Readme is updated with info on how to update to support usernames that start with numbers
2) Readme is updated with info on how to have consistent logout between eFront and aMember

If you upgrade, be sure to check your existing products configurations since the lesson/course list is an array now instead of a single value.

@Trevan:

1. That depends on what you are doing with Moodle. Just about any feature you could want in an eLearning system is in eFront. You can check out the full list of features to get an idea.
2. Coming with a very modern web 2.0 look and feel, eFront also has drag and drop capability for changing design and layout as well as most all of the visuals being controlled via CSS and standard templating (header/footer ,etc) for complete flexibility.
3. What types of questions are you looking to create? eFront has multiple choice, single choice, fill in the blank (short answer), matching, true false, and essay/development out of the box. It also is SCORM compatible so things like Hot Potatoes Quizzes or Articulate Quizmaker (for example) can be added in seamlessly.
Let me know if you have any questions and I’ll do whatever I can. You can also check out the active community and docs over at their website. Features are pretty easy to get added (Devs are very active), you can check out where things are going in the roadmap

@allison

The integration is as easy as dropping the files in and activating, sounds like your eFront directory might be protected with .htaccess rule? The other option is if your aMember and eFront are on different domains (browser security prevents setting cookies across domains) email me at my username here @ hotmail.com with FTP / account info for aMember/eFront and I’ll take a look at it for you and get you going.

exeshop, which version of eFront / aMember are you using?

Did you copy the api.php -> efront/www ?

exeshop, thanks for the kind words and offer.

If you need help for a one time import of your existing aMember users / payments into eFront I can help get that done for you (essentially what the rebuild would do for you, but via direct mySQL imports).

As far as donations, my work is not for profit. Please send all donations to the eFront team in form of licenses for the educational or professional versions of their products or in funding for future roadmap items.

I use an eFront/aMember combination on a number of sites and knw of at least a 100+ sites happily running the plugin. There are probably more, those are just the ones I know from emails I get. I have plenty of motivation to keep things moving along. I also am very active on the aMember and eFront forums so members like you provide a nice swift kick in the rear for me to get features like the multi lesson/course feature out sooner rather than later, thanks!

I've been doing some digging in with various versions of PHP and was able to reproduce the issue with certain MYSql/PHP combination that returned a XML that was different than we were expecting.

While it is a non-critical issue, I've released a patch to the plugin that will address it for current (and future) versions of PHP and MySQL.

I've attached .9.2 to the first post in this thread which contains the fix. Don't forget to copy the api.php from the plugin to the efront\www directory.

This should nail it, but if you are still having problems, email me at my username here at hotmail.com and I will do everything that I can to get it working for you.

Trevan, Are you running the .9.2 I just updated? No problem checking, email me at my username here at hotmail.com.

Great, glad to hear you are up and running.

I typically don't spam folks with updates, especially for a compatibility bug, but since 4 people in 24 hours messaged me about it I wanted to get it out quick. If you have any suggestions as to how I can make it better just let me know (rebuild all is already in the queue)

If you have questions or feature requests for eFront, be sure to checkout the eFront forums:

http://forum.efrontlearning.net/

..as well as the module downloads page:

http://www.efrontlearning.net/download/modules.html

They have a number of nice (free) addon modules such as integrated Wiki, RSS feed viewer, etc.

For e-Commerce folks, there is even an ad module for monetizing your content.

I really think you'll enjoy eFront, it is a great powerful product built with user and admin ease of use in mind and a solid community supporting it.

No problem. I have updated the documentation and readme to include this to save others the hassle. In future versions I'll see if I can code around that by encapsulating the names of the lessons/courses within the XML somehow.

Made a small update to the plugin today for single signon when using a certain version of PHP with aMember on one domain and eFront on subdomain.

It's a rare condition, but better to handle it as an update than multiple one-off requests.

If you are having difficulties with single signon between aMember and eFront working (ie. signon to aMember and get auto signed on to eFront) you may want to upgrade to the latest version.