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The problem with these consent plugins is they are JavaScript based and won't work if the user is running without JS enabled. Sure you could argue that if they have JS disabled, other peoples Cookies probably won't be being set either. Just another angle to look at it from!

Sounds plausible. I haven't really had much to do with WP, so wouldn't know what to suggest. I guess if you have other plugins running, they could well be over riding the no tracking Cookies plugin?

It appeared to set a whole heap of Cookies, I declined them, and it redirected me to Google. Cookies were still set before hand, however.

Personally, I am of the opinion it's the likes of Google and the other big boys that actually track you across multiple web sites when using Analytic's, Social Plugins or whatever that need to play ball. Just because you choose to have a Facebook Likey button on your pages doesn't mean they have the right to track your visitors browsing habits. As I have said previously, these are the guys that need to set-up a section on their websites that allow you to opt out of all Google Ad/Analytical (..) tracking, and as a result, your wishes should be then applied to millions of other websites. In addition, who is going to enforce this on the old, dead, web sites that are no longer maintained? The web is full of them! I am interested in watching how many people flout this law, it will be just one of these laws people break as routine, however wrong that may be.

The only way of combating this I can think of (at least immediately) is to go back to the days of welcome screens/landing pages which contains the opt in/out mechanism and nothing else. I can't see this happening however, it is a backwards step in web interface design and throwback to the 90s! Edit to add: And you can't exactly guarantee your traffic will always enter your site through the main page - it generally comes in all over the place.

I did eventually get it - I think it was just a slow loader.

If it's the one in your signature, I didn't get any popup. Oh.. maybe I did, eventually!

http://www.edugeek.net/forums/web-development/94696-website-cookie-law.html http://www.edugeek.net/forums/web-development/93557-cookie-law.html Just thought I'd bring those to your attention, in case you missed them.

No problem. PHP would work fine, as would any server side language, it doesn't really matter what you use as generally when the item has been 'dropped', the d&d syntax will send a POST or GET request off to a script - PHP if you like - to handle the action. How the PHP script acts is entirely up to you, as it is just like handling any other form submission really. There is more to it, but in a nutshell that is how something like that works.

You need to read up on either some JavaScript (jQuery is a good call for this) or HTML 5 drag and drop. PHP has nothing to do with the dragging and dropping mark up, that will just handle the POST/GET requests from the JS. Google it for a gazillion tutorials.

It's not great practice, but if you agree to an agreement without reading it (as most people do for most things, me included) then as they say, more fool you. But this is a topic for another day, agreements generally have you by the balls one way or another, and they know people will just agree to them as they are often many pages of legal babel that few people understand easily. This is a problem that really needs addressing somehow as no one knows what they are agreeing too - think South Park and the ITunes terms of use parody.

There was a thread on here somewhere recently about this. Of course, the irony of this law is a Cookie is required to save the users preference! I may add a small bit of PHP to our Moodle to allow the user to choose whether they want the Google Analytics code to be loaded or not. Has anyone tried to use any internal IT terms and agreements/aup type policy to say they consent to tracking/statistical cookies being loaded on INTRANET applications? Naturally, this is not something you could use on a website. Other thread: http://www.edugeek.net/forums/web-development/93557-cookie-law.html

Sorry for dragging up so an old thread, but did you ever resolve this? I am having the same issue, albeit with Moodle 2.2. The irony of it is it works for me in our Moodle 1.9 install with the exact same settings! http://www.edugeek.net/forums/virtual-learning-platforms/93839-moodle-2-2-ldap-auth-course-creators.html

Those are pretty much identical to ours. I just don't get it!

Yep - everything is saved in the settings that needs to be. I copied every setting from our 1.9.x install (which works), but this 2.2.x one doesn't work! I can't work it out for the life in me.

Maybe someone can help me here before I totally loose my rag with Moodle. Has anything changed with the way Moodle 2.2 assigns course creator permissions using ldap authentication from Moodle 1.9? I am trying to set up ldap auth to give a certain AD group course creator permissions - this has always worked for us in 1.9, but it just won't work in Moodle 2.2! I have checked and triple checked the setting, copied it from the ldap settings page in 1.9 and it still doesn't work. My group is located here CN=CourseCreators,CN=Users,DC=school,DC=local so that is what I put in the course creators setting. My users are in many sub OU's within OU=Staff,DC=school,DC=local. These settings should work - I am not going crazy for no reason am I?

I think the best way for Google, Facebook, Twitter and any of the other big corps that have their code integrated into a large majority of websites would be to have a section on their websites, for example, in the Google Account section, where you consent or not to allowing their tracking Cookies, be they for GA or AdSense or whatever. This would make more sense as then you have consented in one go for a large selection of websites. Repeat for other big corps, such as Facebook. Naturally this doesn't really fulfil the EU requirement, but it would perhaps be the easiest way to mass opt in and out. The big problem with the above would be how the user would know what third party tracking code is actually included on say BBC or Amazon's website? Stupid law, people are just not going to comply, just like people don't comply with other things. Last time I checked it was illegal to exceed the speed limit, yet some people still do, it is illegal to torrent some music and movies, yet people still do. I am not saying its right, but I can see this being how it is.

Session cookies are allowed - it is specifically tracking cookies - so things such as logins, authentication etc are fine. Of course if you have GA in your Moodle code...

BT's opt out solution makes much more sense - with the response ironically being stored in a cookie I assume. Millions of people simply won't bother complying, I can't imagine they are come after every tom dick and harry for it - I am sure they will be more interested in the likes of Amazon. I could cope without GA, as we get some basic stats that are adequate from the PHP code that obviously doesn't need Cookies, it is just that GA's are better and cover a wider range of Metrics. Edit: The more I think about it, the more complex an issue it is to deal with. It's not just GA for example that Cookie you, it's any social plugin you may have too. Using Facebook OpenID etc for Single Sign On, that's going to be tracking you - complying to what is frankly a ridiculous law could break core features of a web application.

Surely Google will actually need to comply with the UK/EU law, as it's actually their code generating them? Somehow I don't think Google will like many millions of users suddenly stopping using Analytics.

PHP: Basic SimpleXML usage - Manual It is pretty simple stuff :-)

I don't have a script to hand, but there isn't much to it. You can just use SimpleXML to process the RSS feed, then use a loop to loop through the results. You are being more than a little ambiguous too by the way with "process each item". That processing could be many things!

Well as I mentioned before, I don't think anything can be too clean. Perhaps a tiny bit of Dettol or similar may work on a Microfibre cloth, though I have no idea what that might do on glass. It would certainly clean and sanitize though! As I mentioned before, I use Solution 30 to clean any plastic/glass device like that. I also have some foam cleaner similar to what @Chris_ mentioned, that stuff is great for cleaning keyboards and mice.

Just a comment on the antibacterial requirement. I am all for things being cleaned in such a way - generally I think things aren't clean enough, but I assume you don't bother cleaning the keyboards/mice the students use with such a cleaner, so why bother with an iPad? A microfibre cloth would work well. If you want a great glass/plastics cleaner, buy a few cans of Solution 30. It is a bit expensive for what it is, but it is fantastic. I clean my Glasses, Ski Goggles, iPhone/Pad and SLR with it and it really is good stuff. solution 30 | eBay Cleaning Tip: As always with cleaning screens, try do it when they are cool/cold - especially if using a liquid on it to avoid streak hell!

I have seen this done before as little 3D animation video clips. You could use something like 3D Studio Max for this, but even at student licencing prices this will not be cheap. I haven't touched 3D since my uni days, however I remember there were free similar packages out there that would allow you to do a bit of 3D modelling. You could also do something similar using Unity, and allow the tours to be navigable by the visitor (almost like a game) but personally I would avoid this way of doing it. It is more complicated and generally speaking the user needs to install plugins to be able to use the tour. I would look at doing them as little 3D clips and exporting them out as FLV or MP4's. However as I always say when it comes to things like this, you may be able to get the software for free to create the clips, but is your time free? In my experience there was never nothing quick about creating pretty accurate/realistic looking 3D! If you have a small budget, you could consider approaching a local uni who do 3D/Game design courses, and see if you can get a final year student who would be happy to undertake the task for you for basically some work experience/portfolio work and a small token payment.