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Moodle 3.1 LTS modules development

Tomasz Muras

Aimed at PHP developers with HTML/CSS/JS and general web development skills, willing to program using Moodle platform. The focus is on the technical aspects, it does not explain what Moodle is or how to use it.

If you can not afford the book but contribute to Moodle project, send me an email that lists your contributions to receive a free copy.

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I'm going to cover how to build Moodle module - also called "activity". While doing so, we will go through most of the Moodle building blocks. I'm not covering any other plugin types (blocks, filters, reports...) explicitly but after studying this book and a bit of extra research you should be comfortable with development of any Moodle plugin type.

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Tomasz Muras

My name is Tomasz Muras and I'm a software developer. I have been doing Moodle development for quite a few years by now. If you want to get in touch with me, you can send me a message from my [moodle.org profile](https://moodle.org/user/profile.php?id=353008).

Contents

Table of Contents

Introduction

Moodle Architecture

  1. Web stack elements
  2. General architecture
  3. Class loader
  4. Core global variables
  5. Moodle APIs

Hello world

  1. Moodle context

Hello module

  1. version.php
  2. mod/php/db/install.xml
  3. mod/php/db/access.php
  4. mod_form.php
  5. lib.php
  6. mod/php/lang/en/php.php
  7. view.php

Moodle forms

  1. Form definition
  2. Validation
  3. Form processing
  4. Files processing
  5. Editing submission

Moodle DB API

  1. Data structures
  2. DB updates
  3. Transactions
  4. Debugging DB

Gradebook

  1. Basic gradebok support
  2. Gradebook support ++

File API

  1. Moodle data
  2. Moodle database
  3. PHP module extension

Logging and events API

  1. Events
  2. Module viewed event
  3. Observer

Backup and restore

  1. Backup
  2. Restore

Testing

  1. Unit tests with PHPUnit
  2. Acceptance testing with Behat

Final touches

  1. Adding an icon
  2. Navigation entry
  3. Completions support
  4. Language translations
  5. Things not covered

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