This patch introduces new lib/pluginlib.php library that provides
unified access meta-information about all present plugin types. The
library defines plugin_manager singleton that in turn gathers
information about all present plugins and their status. The list of
plugins can be rendered either as plugins check table or plugins control
panel.
This makes print_plugins_table() function obsolete and because it is not
expected to be called by any contrib plugin, the function is removed.
CSS for the legacy table generated by print_plugins_table() is cleaned
up.
This patch reimplements the internal cache that was used to store the
list of available translations in Moodle 1.x. By default, the method
get_list_of_translations() still uses the file
moodledata/cache/languages to store the list of available translations.
The location of that file can be redefined in config.php. The internal
format of the cache file is JSON now (used to be a plain text list).
The patch also fixes a usage of the global $CFG in translation_exists()
methods where the internal property should be used instead.
Administrators can now specify $CFG->langcacheroot in their config.php for
alternative location of strings disk cache. If the alternative location is
not set, Moodle uses default $CFG->dataroot/cache/lang
This patch fixes incorrect password creating, updating and resetting, updating of user fields, unsupported auth plugins are correctly identified, modification of mnethostid is prevented, fixed problem with email duplicates, new password is generated for users without email, etc. It also includes coding style improvements, more inline docs, future TODOs and license information.
This commit:
a) moves modinfo code into new library modinfolib.php
b) uses classes instead of stdClass objects, allowing a huge amount of documentation (and IDE completion)
c) adds hooks so that plugins other than forum can display messages like forum's 'unread', and plugins other than label can display html (apart from/as well as their view.php link) on the course view page
d) removes current hacks for forum and label (mainly in print_section but also across the code), replacing with new 'content' and similar variables [this is the reason for the changes in blocks, etc]
e) reduces size of modinfo in database (only when rebuilt) by excluding empty fields
The change is intended to be backward compatible and does not affect the format of modinfo in database.
- Adds support for course report cron
- Moves existing admin report cron support to end of cron function
- Adds new core API get_plugin_list_with_function
note: default shipping course and admin reports do not use cron
function, this is only to support plugins.
Scripts that do not want buffered output just define NO_OUTPUT_BUFFERING before including config.php.
The fileserving code now checks if the headers are already sent which detects misconfigured servers.
internal means "uses password hash for user authentication", there is a new is_synchronised_with_external() method that indicates if moodle should automatically sync user info with external system after login; I have also improved the default for prevent_local_passwords() which is now defaulting to !is_internal()
As part of this patch I also introduced a new method in accesslib can_access_course that can be used
to check a users access to a course.
I also fixed a minor issue with guest access flag caching in require_login
There was a problem with properties $to, $ReplyTo and $error_count that
are now private. $error_count is accessible via public IsError() method.
For the other two, we needed them just because of post-processing charset
conversion. So I just made sure that the charset is converted before
the recipent and reply-to names are added to the PHPMailer.
Also, I do not instantiate Typo3 during every email if it is not needed
and I pass the character set to it in lower case now as stated in
textlib documentation.
It was always casting the result to an object, even when it was an empty array. I changed it to return null in this case. So that if (get_config('a_plugin')) { /* Do something relying on the pugin having config */ ) works.
