In order to stop 'slow loading feeds' causing performance problems
with standard moodle pages, i've set the timeout for simplepie quite
low. When cron runs i've set this timeout high and cache duration low.
The intention is that cron does all the hard work of connecting to remote
sites and users get this fast fast fast from cache.
However, in the case of adding a feed its probably better to try and get the
feed more agressively..
- Specify default low connect timeout in order that 'interactive' pages are
not slowed down by slow feeds
- Set default cache feed duration of 1 hour
In RSS feed block:
- Try really hard in cron to retreive the feed
- Set the cache duration low in order to help cron refresh the cache
- Remove obsolete magpie configuration
- Remove block_rss_client_submitters which has not been used for some
time
- Remove some block_rss_client setup from rsslib.php
This was all in order to do MDL-19889!
* The old tabbed interface is gone.
* The manage feeds UI has been completely rewritten to be a few
separate sane scripts like managefeeds.php, editfeed.php and viewfeed.php
* This is used from both Admin -> plugins -> blocks ... and as a link from the block edit_form.php
* new edit_form.php for the block replacing config_istance.php.
* A lot of stuff to do with UI specific to this block has been removed from rsslib.php
even non-course and sticky blocks.
The parent context is block_instances.parentcontextid.
The block context should be used for checking permissions directly
related to the block, like moodle/block:view or moodle/site:manageblocks.
However, if the block is displaying information about the current page,
for example the participants block showing who 'here', then it may be
better to use the context of the page where the bloack is appearing -
in other words $this->page->context - to check permissions about the
user's ability to see participants here.
Or, if the block is displaying something stronly related to courses,
for example, a course meny block, the block should probably use the
context for $this->page->course to check permissions.
Start calling $PAGE->set_url in all the places it will be necessary
Start of a stub implementation of $PAGE->blocks to stop other things breaking
Remove some of the special case methods in admin_page
