This function used to be in the user selector, but it is useful in
other areas where we want to search for users as it handles a number
of search options (including extra fields, etc.) and returns SQL
which can be included in a joined query.
A unit test has been added to check the results of these searches.
- Course categories caches are purged by event now
- session cache has additional 10 minutes ttl to clear itself and accomodate for permission changes that do not trigger event purging
- additional request-level cache for coursecat::get()
- We store only children of one category in one cache key
- Function coursecat::get_children() can return results sorted and/or paginated. Added tests
Switching between categories view and edit no longer depend on global editing mode
/course/index.php and /course/category.php do not contain editing code
The purpose of this method is to ensure that when we display lists of
users in different places, the default sort order is consistent.
Having this code centralised in one place them makes it possible to
improve things accross the board, and there is an example of that here.
There is logic so that if we are searching for particular string, then
users with an exact match are sorted first.
This patch includes:
* user management suspend UI tweaks and other coding style improvements
* suspended info in user profiles
* suspend option in advanced edit form
* suspended user filtering
* hidden user fields option for suspended field
Thanks Sam Hemelryk for valuable feedback.
The trouble is that dml driver methods (insert, update, select) are not guaranteed to return the same exception class for various db problems and coding style issues. The recommended practice is to catch dml_exception only.
Refactoring and improvements of the accesslib.php library including prevention of access for not-logged-in users when forcelogin enabled, improved context caching, OOP refactoring of contexts, fixed context loading, deduplication of role definitions in user sessions, installation improvements, decoupling of enrolment checking from capability loading, added detection of deleted and non-existent users in has_capability(), new function accesslib test, auth and enrol upgrade notes.
More details are available in tracker subtasks.
