Moodle 1.9 Extension Development. By writing Moodle plugins, you can make this open source learning platform fit your needs precisely, and this book shows you how with a step-by-step approach that takes you from the basics to advanced techniques

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• Moodle 1.9 Extension Development
  • Table of Contents
  • Moodle 1.9 Extension Development
  • Credits
  • About the Authors
  • About the Reviewer
  • Preface
    • Approach
    • What this book covers
    • Who this book is for
    • Conventions
    • Reader feedback
    • Customer support
      • Errata
      • Piracy
      • Questions
  • 1. Moodle Architecture
    • Understanding the stack
      • Database
      • Operating system
      • Web server
    • Directory and system structure
      • Moodle code
      • Moodle database
      • Moodle data
    • Installing Moodle
    • Moodle program execution
      • Executing config.php
      • Including Moodle libraries
      • Getting our data
      • Displaying in Moodle
    • Configuring Moodle
      • Setting configuration variables
    • Moodles API
    • Other important libraries
      • PEAR
      • ADOdb
      • YUI
      • XMLDB
    • Access control, logins, and roles
      • Moodle permission contexts
      • Capabilities
      • Moodle roles
        • Assigning roles
    • Summary
  • 2. Creating and Modifying Blocks
    • Creating a block from scratch
      • Assigning content to our block
    • Adding a language file
    • Working with capabilities
      • Testing for built-in capabilities
      • Hiding a block based on capabilities
      • Adding your own capability
      • Checking for our new capability
    • Adding instance configuration
      • Capturing your configuration content
      • Displaying your content
    • Adding scheduled actions to our block
    • Reviewing a real world block
      • Reviewing block_instructor_contact.php
      • Configuring the instructor contact block
    • Using a block as a code container
      • Creating a block stub for our container
      • Creating capabilities for our container
    • Summary
  • 3. Creating and Modifying Filters
    • How a filter works
    • Building a filter
      • Getting started
      • Creating the language file
      • Creating the filter code
      • Activating the filter
      • Adding configuration settings
      • Using our settings
    • Summary
  • 4. Creating and Modifying Activity Modules
    • The scope of creating an activity module
    • Our moduleactivity Foo!
    • Getting started with the NEWMODULE template
      • Completing mod_form.php
        • Defining input values
        • Using common form elements
    • Making version.php
    • Setting icon.gif
    • Generating install.xml
      • Using the XMLDB editor
      • Defining our activity database
      • Defining the foo_responses table
      • Defining log types
    • Creating access.php
    • Updating index.php
      • Adding clean language strings
      • Looking up response data
        • Displaying our table of activities
        • Displaying course sections
        • Committing output
    • Finishing view.php
      • Including submit_form.php
      • Your code goes here
      • Context control
      • Developing a form
        • Cancel option
        • Submitted data
      • Setting grades
      • Displaying submission form
      • Displaying submissions
      • Group support
    • Coding lib.php
      • Function add_instance
      • Function foo_delete_instance
      • Function foo_user_outline
      • Function foo_user_complete
      • Function foo_get_participants
      • Function reset_course_form_definition
      • Function foo_reset_course_form_defaults
      • Function foo_reset_userdata
      • Inserting grades into the gradebook
        • Using grade_update
          • Setting the grade type
    • Upgrading our activity database
      • Using the XMLDB editor for database upgrades
      • Updating upgrade.php
    • Creating backup and restore support
      • Exploring backuplib.php functions
        • Common backup functions
        • Internal backup functions
      • Exploring restorelib.php functions
        • Common restore functions
        • Internal restore functions
    • Summary
  • 5. Customizing the Look and Feel
    • Themes
      • How themes work
      • Headers and footers
        • header.html
        • footer.html
      • Project 1: Changing the navigation breadcrumbs
        • Creating our own theme
        • Adding the category link
        • The navigation string
      • Project 2: Adding a standard footer with site links
        • Creating the code
        • Running the code
    • Course formats
      • How course formats work
      • Creating our own course format
        • Creating the course format language file
        • Modifying our course format function
        • Changing the forum display
    • Summary
  • 6. Developer's Guide to the Database
    • The database structure
    • Maintaining Moodle tables
      • install.xml
      • upgrade.php
      • Maintaining local database customization
      • The XMLDB editor
    • Using the Moodle database in your code
      • Retrieving data
        • Query by parameters
        • Query by "where" string
        • Query by full SQL
      • Storing data
        • set_field and set_field_select
        • insert_record and update_record
    • Common tables and relationships
      • Course and module relationships
    • Programming best practices
      • Take only what you need
      • Limiting your returned data
      • Using recordsets
      • Optimizing carefully with joins
      • Testing on more than one database engine
    • Summary
  • 7. Developing Pluggable Core Modules
    • Assignment types
      • What is an assignment type
      • Identifying assignment types
      • Assignment type basics
      • Building our own assignment type
        • Getting started
        • Planning our data
        • Adding custom settings
        • Making it do something useful
          • Viewing the journal
          • Getting the submission
          • Adding an entry
          • Viewing a submission
          • Reviewing students' entries
          • Backup and restore functions
          • Finishing up
    • Resource types
      • What is a resource type?
      • Identifying resource types
      • Resource type basics
    • Question types
      • What is a question type?
      • Identifying question types
      • Question type basics
        • The main class
        • The editing form
        • The main language file
      • Other important question constructs
        • Grading
        • Backup and restore functions
        • Import and export function support
        • CSS and JavaScript support
    • Where to get more help
    • Summary
  • 8. Creating Moodle Reports
    • Creating course reports
      • Defining the non-participants report
      • Getting started
      • Updating mod.php
      • Controlling access
      • Language strings
      • Changes to Moodle's API
      • Exploring the People block
        • Setting $select
        • Setting $from
        • Setting $where
        • Making the query call
      • Modifying index.php
        • Making text substitutions
        • Changing the logical structure
        • Tracking active users using a hash array
        • Displaying the report
        • Cleaning up the final display
        • Using flexible_table
      • An exercise for you
    • Creating gradebook reports
      • Required components
        • Creating our report folder
        • Creating access.php
        • Assigning language strings
        • index.php requirements
        • Using version.php
      • Using the grade_report class
      • Fixing the outcomes report
        • Digging into the code
        • Reviewing our new report
    • Creating administrator reports
      • Generating the Hello World administrator report
      • Tweaking index.php
        • Viewing our administrator report
      • An exercise for you
    • Other output formats
    • Summary
  • 9. Integrating Moodle with Other Systems
    • Built-in services and plugins
      • Batch upload
      • Built-in authentication plugins
        • Manual/Internal authentication
      • LDAP/Active directory authentication
      • External database authentication
        • E-mail account based authentication plugins
      • Built-in enrollment plugins
        • LDAP enrollment plugin
        • External database enrollment plugin
      • E-commerce based enrollment plugins
      • Web services
        • Activity plugin as an integration bridge
    • Creating user authentication plugins
      • Exploring authentication requirements
        • Looking at auth.php
        • Making the language file
        • Testing simple authentication
        • Adding optional functionality to authentication
      • Creating the RLLDAP authentication plugin
        • Coding RLLDAP
          • Changing LDAP string to RLLDAP
            • Mass change auth/ldap to auth/rlldap
            • Mass change 'ldap' to 'rlldap'
            • Mass change role assignment
          • Updating and renaming the auth_plugin class
          • Creating our language file
          • Modifying config.html
            • Storing administrator group
    • Implementing Single Sign On
      • Creating a URL-based SSO
        • Digging into the code
        • Finding the user's account
        • Confirming that the login criteria have been met
        • Completing login
        • Redirecting the user to the correct location
      • Testing the URL SSO
    • Creating user enrollment plugins
      • Reviewing plugin requirements
        • Creating enrol.php
        • Creating the setup_enrolments function
        • Making the language file
        • Other requirements
        • Making the 'simple' enrollment plugin
      • Using optional enrollment functions
      • Assigning enrollment plugins to courses
    • Grade or completion passing
      • Working with the built-in import/export plugins
      • Creating grade import/export plugins
        • An exercise for you
    • Summary
  • 10. Writing Secure Code
    • User access issues
      • Making sure that a user has logged in
      • Making sure that the user's session is the current one
      • Making sure that the user has appropriate capabilities
    • SQL issues
      • Taking a look at vulnerable code
      • Quote protection
      • Database API
      • Use of addslashes
    • Form issues
      • The Moodle formslib library
        • Specifying a type
        • Validation rules
      • 'param' functions
    • File system issues
      • Course file areas
      • User file areas
      • Other file areas
      • Getting a file URL
    • Screen output issues
      • The p() and s() functions
      • The format_text() and format_string() functions
    • Logging your actions
    • Summary
  • 11. Sending Notifications to Users
    • Requirements
    • Setup
    • Using e-mail
      • Send e-mail API
      • Creating the subject text
      • Creating the message text
      • Sending the e-mail
    • Using Moodle messaging
      • Moodle messaging internals
      • Creating the message
      • Sending the message
    • Using RSS feeds
      • Setup
      • Creating the RSS XML file
      • Viewing the RSS feed
    • Summary
  • 12. Constructing and Displaying Pages by Using the pagelib Library
    • Introduction to pagelib
      • Class page_base
      • Class page_course
      • Class page_generic_activity
    • Core modules that use pagelib
    • Using pagelib factory functions
      • page_import_types
      • page_create_instance
      • page_create_object
      • page_map_class
    • page_base member functions
      • page_base() and construct()
      • get_id()
      • get_body_class()
      • get_body_id()
      • edit_always()
      • init_quick()
      • init_full()
      • user_allowed_editing()
      • user_is_editing()
      • print_header()
      • get_type()
      • get_format_name()
      • url_get_path()
      • url_get_parameters()
      • blocks_get_positions()
      • blocks_default_position()
      • blocks_get_default()
      • blocks_move_position()
    • Meeting pagelib requirements
      • Looking at page setup
      • Examining requirements by reviewing quiz's view.php
        • Working with quiz blocks
        • Investigating quiz page display
    • Converting activity Foo! to pagelib
      • Creating a local pagelib.php
      • Updating view.php
        • Initializing $PAGE
        • Outputting blocks
        • Outputting the middle column
        • Viewing the results
    • Related libraries
      • weblib
      • blocklib
      • graphlib
    • Summary
  • 13. Building Forms with formslib
    • Using formslib
    • Form definition and elements
      • addElement and createElement
        • Buttons
          • Button function
          • Submit, reset, and cancel functions
          • add_action_buttons function
        • Checkboxes
          • Checkbox function:
          • Advanced checkbox and checkbox controller
        • Uploading and/or choosing a file
          • choosecoursefile function
        • Date and time
          • date_selector function
          • date_time_selector function
        • htmleditor, textarea, and text
          • htmleditor function
          • text function
        • modgrade
        • password and passwordunmask
        • radio
        • select, multi-select, and selectyesno
        • hidden, html, and static text
        • Groups
    • Rules and validation
      • Rules
        • addRule
        • registerRule
      • Validation
    • Summary
  • 14. Development for the Adventuresome: Web Services
    • Using Remote-Learner Web Services
      • Advantages
      • Disadvantages
      • Installation
        • Server-side setup
        • Client setup
        • Testing with ppdemo_trace.php
      • Setting up your Web Services connection
        • Debugging setup
      • Managing users
        • Creating users
          • Processing arguments
          • Connecting to Web Services
          • Using edit_user() to create a new account
        • Updating users
        • Deleting users
      • Creating a Web Services based Single Sign On
        • Creating our HTML wrapper
        • Web service connection setup
        • Processing SSO parameters
        • Using authenticate_user()
        • Closing wrapper
      • Enrollment management
        • Creating enrollstudent.php
        • Using enrol_students()
        • Creating unenrollstudent.php
      • Grade passing
        • Creating the CSV grade script
          • Generating the header line
          • Course loop
    • Using Moodle Networking
      • Advantages
      • Disadvantages
      • What is XML-RPC?
        • MNet XML-RPC supported service types
        • MNet XML-RPC security model
        • Using MNet in activity modules
        • Using MNet in auth/enrol plugins
        • MNet SSO model
    • Summary
  • Index

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