Passing Values from Storyline to PHP via FLASH

Hello. I am checking this, and tried to make a combination of the first two posts to create a php script that would send 3 variables to an email. So, I receive an email but with blank spaces instead of variables.

On the send email button in my storyline, I have triggered this javascript:

var player = GetPlayer();
var learner = player.GetVar("learner")
var course = player.GetVar("course")
var email = player.GetVar("email")
window.location.href = "main.php?w1="+ learner + "&w2=" + course + "&w3=" + email;

And in the main.php I have written this:

< ? php

$besked = "Student name: " .  utf8_decode($_GET['w1']). "
Student e-Mail: " . utf8_decode($_GET['w3']). "
Project name: " . utf8_decode($_GET['w2']);

print"Sending e-Mail";

// e-mail sender
$sender = utf8_decode($_GET['w3']);
 
// send e-mail
mail("elearnmarko@gmail.com", "Course Completion", $besked, "From: $sender");
?>

So I am receiveing emails on elearnmarko@gmail.com but in the body of email I got only this kind of email:

Student name:
Student e-Mail:
Project name:

Sudent name: and empty space after. I am very very bad at php and javascripting, so I basically cannot find the problem, when I have to do something with php or javascript, I am just checking around the internet and change something by logic.

Can somebody that is familiar with this show me where is my issue and how to fix it?

Thanks

Try this for coding your mail- 

<?php

$message ="\n" ."Learner: ".$_GET['w1']. "\n"."Email: ".$_GET['w2'] . "\n"."Project Name: ".$_GET['w3']. "\n";

echo $message;

$to = "elearnmarko@gmail.com"; 

$subject = 'Course Completion';

$headers = 'From: elearnmarko@gmail.com' . "\r\n" .

    'Reply-To: elearnmarko@gmail.com' . "\r\n" .

    'X-Mailer: PHP/' . phpversion();

mail($to, $subject, $message, $headers);

?>

And.. A slight modification:

<?php

/* $message ="\n" .$_GET['w1']. " ".$_GET['w2'] . "".$_GET['w3']. "\n"; */

$message ="\n" ."Learner: ".$_GET['w1']. "\r"."Email: ".$_GET['w2'] ."\r"."Project Name: ".$_GET['w3']. "\n";

echo $message;

$to = "your@email.com"; 

$subject = 'PHP Mail Code Test';

$headers = 'From: Your Sender Name . "\r\n" .

    'Reply-To: your@email.com' . "\r\n" .

    'X-Mailer: PHP/' . phpversion();

if(@mail($to, $subject, $message, $headers))

{echo "mail success";}

else

{echo "error";}

?>

Kawstov,

Hope you well.....

tel me, passing info from Storyline to PHP is possible.... is there an easier way to player.SetVar from php?

Hi Kennethg,

I am fine, thanks!

Are you asking to go back from PHP to Storyline ?

Yes it is possible. You will have to insert the HTML tag.

Please refer here.

Regards,

Kawstov

Hi Kawstov,

Excuse my lack of java knowledge here. So you are saying I can have a variable on a wordpress page (lets say "userfirstname", have a storyline .story file embeded into that page and pass the value of that variable to the .story file? So that I can have a slide in storyline say 'Hello "userfirstname"' ?

How would I go about this?

Adam

Hi Adam,

You are talking to a coding novice only

Are you trying to call the variable in a post?

Or

Changing the core files to call story output?

In both the cases, you need to push some code in the core files [index.php, etc.]. I can look into that given some time, but suggest you not to try without a PHP and Javascript prowess.

Till then some food for your thought:

http://wordpress.org/support/topic/how-to-display-username-with-published-post

Regards,

Kawstov

This is exactly what I need!! I have an orientation consisting of college facts which ends in a quiz. I need to be able to collect the quiz data and send it via email without the ability of the user manipulating the information. We don't want to use an LMS since we don't want to create student accounts we just want to be able to tell folks to go to this website, go through the orientation, take an exam and that's it for them. Then on our side we want to know they visited all sections, completed the exam with what score, and the first/last name of whomever took the exam.

Is this possible with what you are describing here?

Linda

Absolutely Linda,

If u have Flash skills to insert the code, this is what u need.

Even if you don't have Flash know how, you can carry on like this.

If the test is a serious one and you don't want students to mess around with the score, you can use this method

Regards,

Kawstov

Hi,

Link is not available

Hi Kenneth, sorry for the trouble but link is working alright.

Here is the absolute path:

http://blog.kawstov.com/passing-values-from-html-to-storyline/

Regards,

Kawstov

Here the issue is security.  If the URL pushed from PHP code contains values, those values can be changed.  How to work around that? 

Hi , are you referring to data coming into Storyline or going out to a database?

All code can be hacked including LMS data transfers like Moodle but simple measures can make it harder for the average user.

Can you be more specific on the security issue you are referring to?

Regards

Doug

Hi Aunt Bee,

The only front end loop hole I see, is while pushing the data from SL to PHP.

That can be solved. Please refer  - http://blog.kawstov.com/storyline-to-php-via-ajax/

Rest all needs special skills to crack.

This is absolutely fantastic! I'm using "passing via PHP to a txt file" and it works great.

One issue I have though is that when the form is submitted the user is taken out of the Storyline presentation and shown the confirmation words in the same browser window.

Is there a way to submit the variables to the txt file and for the user to move on to a final storyline page telling them their results have been submitted?

I've been trying to figure out how to get the php to open up in a new blank browser window and also get the articulate storyline project to advance to the next slide so they can close the confirmation window and continue with the storyline course. 

In a perfect world they wouldn't see the confirmation page a t all but just continue to the next slide in Storyline but i am aware that the PHP page needs to open in order for the variables to be recorded in the text file.

I could really use some help on this one as I've very little php and javascript knowledge.

Thanks

Jon

Any help would be really appreciated?

Thanks

Jon

Hi Jon,

Sorry for the late reply.

Yes the reverse data flow [from html to SL] is also possible.

Here's a post that can help u:

http://blog.kawstov.com/passing-values-from-html-to-storyline/

Two things to care about - 

1. Add the HTML as web page

2. Add a variable is SL that can be changed by HTML [method discussed in post]. Then put a trigger in SL that jumps to next slide, when the variable changes.

Do reply how u used it. :)

Regards,

Kawstov

Hi Kawstov,

First of all, thanks so much for sharing your insights about all these techie variable parsing. It's just what I need for my project!!

I went through both of your postings:  parsing values from flash to php and from storyline to PHP via javascript. I'm not a technical person, and barely understood half of what you put up there, but thanks to your sample code, I finally managed to get things work (both emailing the variables and writing them on the designated file). However there are still some issues and a few things I still need to have adjusted, but I can't seem to find references on how to. I really hope you will be able to help me out, or point me to the right directions. 

First, pls let me describe my situation.

OBJECTIVES:
to email values from a Storyline lesson as well as write them on a file located on a server WITHOUT disconnecting the learner from the lesson slide (without loading a new page).

ABOUT THE PROJECT:  (It's just a simple 1-page version just to test functionality -- I've attached the file here

>> A storyline page with few variables, but the 2 variables, "result1" and "result2", are to be passed.

>> once the user clicks the "See Results" button, the 2 results should be calculated and displayed on the slide  AND AT THE SAME TIME the values should be sent to an email and written on a file. 

NOTES: I would like the parsing of values to be done without causing any interruption to the user's current interaction with Sloryline lesson. In other words, there shouldn't be any refreshing or reloading of the browser.

WHAT I'VE DONE: 

>> I put 'execute javascript' as the last trigger of the "See Results" button.  (I assume it works since I get the values sent to my email and recorded on the csv file).

=== this is the adjusted javascript code I added in Storyline ====

var player = GetPlayer();

var result1 = player.GetVar("result1")
var result2 = player.GetVar("result2")

window.location.href = "http://www.myurl.com/testjscript/process.php?w1=" + result1 + "&w2=" + result2;

=== this is the adjusted php code for EMAILING and STORING variables  (I combined them)===

<?php

$cvsData .= $_GET['w1'].",".$_GET['w2'].",".PHP_EOL; // Format to concatenate the data in one string.

$fp = fopen("data.csv", "a");

if($fp)

{

fwrite($fp,$cvsData); // Write information to the file

fclose($fp); // Close the file

}

/* $message ="n" .$_GET['w1']. "".$_GET['w2']. "n"; */
$message ="n" ."RESULT 1 = ".$_GET['w1']. "r"."RESULT 2= ".$_GET['w2']. "n";

echo "Thank You!";

$to = "contact@myurl.com";

$subject = 'PHP Mail Code Test';
$headers = 'From: abcxyz.com' . "rn" .
'Reply-To: anemail@email.com' . "rn" .
'X-Mailer: PHP/' . phpversion();

if(@mail($to, $subject, $message, $headers))
{echo "mail success";}
else
{echo "error";}

?>

PROBLEMS:

After clicking the "See Results" button, the javascript gets executed and the window is refreshed to a new page with the echo text (in this case it's the "Thank You! mail success"). That means the user is disconnected from the lesson.

 ===> Is there any way that we can avoid that? I need the user to stay at the lesson and still can continue interacting with storyline.

OTHER ISSUES:

* The headers on the email that php sends are as shown below.  The "From:" looks kind of confusing with everything comes together in one chunk.

From: abcxyz.comrnReply-To:anemail@email.comrnx-mailer
To: contact@myurl.com

 ===> Did I make any mistake in the PHP?

* These are the results I got on the mail.  There are "n" and "r" everywhere.

nRESULT 1 = 100rRESULT 2= 99n

===>I guess I need to remove the "n" and "r" from the code,right?

Thank you so so much in advance for your time and help!!

Naiyana

Sorry, I forgot one issue.  The javascript doesn't get executed when I use the lesson on a tablet (android).  That means it doesn't work on HTML5. Does anyone have any idea if there is any special setting I need to make so that it will work on HTML5?

Thank you!
Nai.

My problem,

I have a client with  a learners dbase. We have different quizzes assigned for different learners. Learners will login by entering their ID number on the storyline start screen. is there a way I can push that variable into a SQL dbase and then push back the rest of the information to storyline.

 Please help..ANYONE!

Hello Kastaw and thanks for this. Been looking for something similr for a while on how to export the essaytype answers from storyline to some location or have them emailed so they can be reviewed and marked for an anuual test as we are not using multiple choice.

I prefer the javascript approach but your step 1 is:

Step1: Create a trigger to execute a javascript when submit button is clicked

Enter the Javascript:

Where do I enter this javascript and how do I do it for the entire quiz to export the essay type answers.  The example seems to be for a single form? Would appreciate your assistance.

Yubi

Hello! Did you find the error in your code?

Hi,

I can't quite remember now, but I finally got things to work. thank you

nai

Maybe you have saved the code somewhere . I really need it