eFront eLearning (LMS) integration plugin v2 (Moodle alternative)

eFront is an open-source, easy to use and administer, eLearning (LMS) system.​

It is free for both commercial and non-commercial usage under a Common Public Attribution License.​

Additional Information | Download eFront​

Similar to Moodle it is SCORM compatible and expandable via modules which are developed and supported by distributed development efforts around the world.

eFront's visually attractive css based design and usability sits atop a modern technology stack (object oriented, Ajax, etc) supporting a number of features:

• User management
  Standard and custom user roles can be used or created depending on your needs
• Lessons, courses and categories
  Organize lessons at multiple conceptual levels called categories. Bundle several lessons inside a course
• Content editors
  eFront includes a flexible visual content editor and internal support for pictures, sound, video, flash or java
• File manager & digital library
  Upload, organise, use and share files with any other system user
• Test builders
  Create tests by assembling questions from a question pool. Several types of questions can be created, used and re-used
• Scorm support
  eFront is a SCORM compatible and certified platform. SCORM content can be imported or exported from the system
• Projects
  Assign projects with deadlines to end-users and track their progress
• Surveys
  Create, share and analyze responses from people inside or outside your organization
• Reports
  Do you like high-level reports or you prefer a more detailed specific user or lesson info. Everything is included!
• Access Rules
  Restrict or guide the users through the content
• Progress tracking
  Several visual indications guide the user through the lesson and his current progress
• Communication
  Out-of-the-box eFront includes support for forum, chat, calendar, personal messages, file sharing and user-comments on topics
• Glossary
  All glossary items are silently merged with the real content
• Certifications
  Build and issue your own certifications
• Customization & usability
  Drag and drop components, select a new theme or the active components for your lesson. eFront is an elegant and flexible solution that does not look outdated
• Search
  Search for anything, anyone and anywhere inside the system
• Multilingual
  Unicode support and full language administration module. Adding a new language is easy!
• Administration
  The administrator is still a human. eFront puts the same special care on his interface as well.
• Security and access control
  Features like LDAP support or ip restriction helps building a secure and open system
• Modular
  Want more? eFront can be expanded using small, or not that small, functional components called Modules!

aMember integration automates user/product management and provides single sign on.

Utilizing eFront's API this integration plugin allows you to associate a eFront lesson or course to an aMember product, automating the registration and de-registration based on the the product state (active or not). Integration also includes single sign on support.

Please let me know if you have any questions or feedback.

change log:
2.1 12/10/10 - Upgraded to API 2, fixed minor reactivate bug, upgraded error handling
2.0 06/01/10 - improved error handling, selectable expire action, curl instead of fopen

What version of eFront are you running? Are you pointing to API.PHP or API2.PHP?

Depending on the version you are running there is a known bug in the eFront API regarding broken XML for the catalog function (what retrieves the courses/groups)

See here for more info:

http://bugs.efrontlearning.net/browse/EF-639

The new eFront 3.6.8 Build 9931 that was released today includes the fixed ap2.php which corrects the invalid XML bugwhich is causing those errors and will return the lessons to the product configuration pages.

These errors are unrelated to eFront but rather indicate your aMember mail server / configuration is invalid or aMember is unable to connect to the mail server.

I was able to reproduce what you are seeing in my dev environment running the latest version of eFront. They recently introduced some additional security to the API and it looks like it may have broke things for anyone using the API. The apidemo2.php that ships with aMember also does not work :-( It does not allow tokens to be authenticated.

That being said, I have attached a copy of the api2.php that I am using in my production environment that appears to solve the issue for me in my dev environment. Unzip it to your efront\www directory and try to create a test user and add the subscription.

This is obviously a short term solution until the new api2.php issues can be resolved.

Possibly if you have disabled / deleted / modified your default language to something other than English?

There is an open issue with eFront to allow language access to the API. As a result of that open issue the plugin currently defaults to english.

If you are not using english as your default language you can edit the efront.inc.php file that is included in the plugin and replace instances of:

Code:

&languages=english

With whatever your system language is.

@ssears: Is your aMember installed to a subdomain? If so, that might explain your login issue. A subdomain cannot/should not create cookies for peer subdomains or primary domains.

@ssears: use the api2.php in my post above.. there is a bug with the current eFront version that is causing issues.