The problem was with the non-UTF-8-safe way that a question name
was being constructed from the question text.
I have done a proper fix with methods in the base class to
carefully construct a question name that is reasonable, and
which will fit in the database column. Then I have changed all
importers to use the new methods.
I also remembered not to break the lesson in the process.
Using consants to refer to plugin names is crazy. The whole point of
plugins is that you can install more, hence the list of constants will
never be complete.
Unfortunately, they are used all over the import/export code, so I cannot eliminate them completely. However, I was able to move them out of the core library.
The following are notable changes made in this commit
* Lesson page type are now class based and extend an abstract class. This includes a class for the page type and a class for the creating/editing a instance of this page.
* Converted all forms to mforms
* Action script located in mod/action/* were worked into the above so far less switch statements and the action directory will be removed.
* Implements a custom renderer
* Converted everything to use page, output, and custom renderer methods
* Replaced all deprecated methods incl. print_textarea conversions
* Tried to cut down on excessive DB calls.
Things worth noting:
* The focus of this patch was on cleaning up the module not rewriting it, as such I have organized NOT rewritten. There are still many areas in the module where the code could be greatly improved however to do so would require a rethink/rewrite
Jean-Michel Vedrine