[#MDL-10169] META: Social Networking Features (GSOC)

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META: Social Networking Features (GSOC)

Created: 19/Jun/07 12:14 PM Updated: 29/Oct/08 12:11 PM

Component/s:

Tags

Affects Version/s:

1.9

Fix Version/s:

2.0

File Attachments:

patch.txt (62 kb)
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patch2.txt (78 kb)
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patch3.txt (69 kb)
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patch4.txt (69 kb)
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patch5.txt (86 kb)
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patch6.txt (31 kb)
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patch7.txt (378 kb)
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patch8.txt (35 kb)
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patch9.txt (23 kb)

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Relates

This issue has a non-specific relationship to:

MDL-13961 Allow users to customise their profile page with blocks in the same way as they can customise the tags page

This issue has been marked as being related by:

MDL-10951 Email inappropriate flag

URL:	http://docs.moodle.org/en/Student_projects/Social_Networking_features
Participants:	Jonathan Newman, Luiz Cruz, Martin Dougiamas, Mathieu Petit-Clair and Ralf Hilgenstock
Security Level:	None

Sub-Tasks:

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Open

Sub-Task Progress:

1.	~~Database schema and Basic tags API~~	Resolved	Luiz Cruz
2.	~~Update user profile page with interests section~~	Resolved	Luiz Cruz
3.	~~Tags search page (to search for tags in the system)~~	Resolved	Luiz Cruz
4.	~~Page associated with a tag~~	Resolved	Luiz Cruz
5.	~~Tags filtering in administration~~	Resolved	Luiz Cruz
6.	~~Block support in tag page~~	Resolved	Luiz Cruz
7.	DB schema and basic API for friends	Open	Martin Dougiamas
8.	Friends list in profile page	Open	Martin Dougiamas
9.	Friends list management page	Open	Martin Dougiamas
10.	~~Add help files~~	Closed	Martin Dougiamas
11.	~~Add tags documentation pages~~	Resolved	Helen Foster
12.	~~Fix double quotes in SQL statements~~	Resolved	Petr Škoda
13.	~~Get Dev API Keys for Youtube and Flickr~~	Resolved	Martin Dougiamas

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Explore the possibilities of social networking features by expanding the user profile page:

    * add user tags that describe interests etc, as links to "interest pages" eg constructivism
    * interest pages that contain information about all the people who share that interest, as well as blog entries that use that tag, google searches, other info using standard Moodle blocks etc
    * allow users to add other users as "friends", which are displayed on their user profile pages
    * think about controls to prevent abuse of these features in a school environment.
    * allow users to specify an external RSS feed to their own external blog, parsing the feed insert entries (optionally selecting by tag) as internal blog entries for that user, adding new tags/permissions as specified, with links back to external entry etc.
    * if time, explore deeper integrations with Youtube, Flickr, MySpace, Facebook, Elgg etc.

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Martin Dougiamas - 19/Jun/07 12:17 PM

I've started the meta bug for you Luiz, can you please add sub tasks for all the various steps?

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Ralf Hilgenstock - 07/Aug/07 04:17 PM

The number in the owner field is not the same number as the number of users shown if I click on the tag.

In the personal profile the interest field is empty in edit mode. New entries are added in the list, but the old ones are not shown as my interests. In the manage table they are also listed and in the tags view there is a number after 'users tagged with $a:' this number says how often is was not, but not how often it is actually used.

Adding a number (1,2,3) in interest field, this entry is ignored. Bug or feature?

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Martin Dougiamas - 07/Aug/07 05:43 PM

Ralf, you may not have the very latest CVS copy ... try http://test.moodle.com

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Luiz Cruz - 08/Aug/07 12:29 AM - edited

Some comments:

- The "owner" field in the tag table (or in the tag management list) is the user id who created the tag. The intent of keeping the creator of a tag is to allow some control of the vocabulary.... for example, if a user creates a bad word tag, he could be notified or have his role changed to restrict him from creating new tags.

- about the interest field in the profile, try it in test.moodle.com

- numeric values are not valid tag names.... But if in the interests field of your profile you enter integers that correspond to existing tags ids, it will add them to your interests.

- anything in the moodle system can be tagged. The number "xx things tagged with yy" refers to any entity in moodle. As for now, tags are beeing used to tag users

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Martin Dougiamas - 13/Aug/07 12:54 AM

Great work, Luiz! I've added patch9 (with some modifications) to head ... that's a good place to be now for 1.9 (we'll branch tomorrow I think). Please fix bugs directly in CVS from now on.

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Martin Dougiamas - 13/Aug/07 02:07 AM

Can you please fix this:

[Mon Aug 13 02:05:27 2007] [error] PHP Fatal error: Cannot instantiate non-existent class: simplexmlelement in /home/moodtest/public_html/blocks/tag_youtube/block_tag_youtube.php on line 131

I think you may be using a PHP5-only library ... what can we do on PHP4?

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Jonathan Newman - 28/Oct/08 12:50 PM

Is there interest in getting (into Moodle 2.0) the three social networking feature sub-tasks which are currently open?

Namely:
http://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-10189 (DB schema and basic API for friends)
http://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-10190 (Friends list in profile page)
http://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-10191 (Friends list management page)

Catalyst is working with an organisation which is interested in funding/contributing them (along with some related features such as social networking notifications).

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Martin Dougiamas - 29/Oct/08 12:11 PM

That would be awesome! +100