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Long Term Support Release

  • Bug fixes for general core bugs in 4.1.x will end 13 November 2023 (12 months).
  • Bug fixes for security issues in 4.1.x will end 10 November 2025 (36 months).
  • PHP version: minimum PHP 7.4.0 Note: minimum PHP version has increased since Moodle 4.0. PHP 8.0.x is supported too.
/filter/tex/ -> pix.php (source)
<?php
      // This function fetches math. images from the data directory
      // If not, it obtains the corresponding TeX expression from the cache_tex db table
      // and uses mimeTeX to create the image file

// disable moodle specific debug messages and any errors in output
define('NO_DEBUG_DISPLAY', true);
define('NO_MOODLE_COOKIES', true); // Because it interferes with caching

    require_once('../../config.php');

    if (!filter_is_enabled('tex')) {
< print_error('filternotenabled');
> throw new \moodle_exception('filternotenabled');
} require_once($CFG->libdir.'/filelib.php'); require_once($CFG->dirroot.'/filter/tex/lib.php'); require_once($CFG->dirroot.'/filter/tex/latex.php'); $cmd = ''; // Initialise these variables $status = ''; $relativepath = get_file_argument(); $args = explode('/', trim($relativepath, '/')); if (count($args) == 1) { $image = $args[0]; $pathname = $CFG->dataroot.'/filter/tex/'.$image; } else {
< print_error('invalidarguments', 'error');
> throw new \moodle_exception('invalidarguments', 'error');
} if (!file_exists($pathname)) { $convertformat = get_config('filter_tex', 'convertformat'); if (strpos($image, '.png')) { $convertformat = 'png'; } $md5 = str_replace(".{$convertformat}", '', $image); if ($texcache = $DB->get_record('cache_filters', array('filter'=>'tex', 'md5key'=>$md5))) { if (!file_exists($CFG->dataroot.'/filter/tex')) { make_upload_directory('filter/tex'); } // try and render with latex first $latex = new latex(); $density = get_config('filter_tex', 'density'); $background = get_config('filter_tex', 'latexbackground'); $texexp = $texcache->rawtext; // the entities are now decoded before inserting to DB $lateximage = $latex->render($texexp, $image, 12, $density, $background); if ($lateximage) { copy($lateximage, $pathname); } else { // failing that, use mimetex $texexp = $texcache->rawtext; $texexp = str_replace('&lt;', '<', $texexp); $texexp = str_replace('&gt;', '>', $texexp); $texexp = preg_replace('!\r\n?!', ' ', $texexp); $texexp = '\Large '.$texexp; $cmd = filter_tex_get_cmd($pathname, $texexp); system($cmd, $status); } } } if (file_exists($pathname)) { send_file($pathname, $image); } else { if (debugging()) { echo "The shell command<br />$cmd<br />returned status = $status<br />\n"; echo "Image not found!<br />"; echo "Please try the <a href=\"$CFG->wwwroot/filter/tex/texdebug.php\">debugging script</a>"; } else { echo "Image not found!<br />"; echo "Please try the <a href=\"$CFG->wwwroot/filter/tex/texdebug.php\">debugging script</a><br />"; echo "Please turn on debug mode in site configuration to see more info here."; } }