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User Profile Field Select Options
If you need to get the list of user profile field select options for your plugin, you can query t...
Showing additional fields on user profile page
The fields displayed on the user profile page (public profile) are controlled by the code in lib/...
Office 365 Email Settings
A few tips when configuring an Office 365 email account for your SMTP server settings in Moodle: ...
Mahara and Google Analytics
You can add the Google Analytics script snippet to a configuration parameter called additionalhtm...
Language Pack Cache
You can purge the language pack cache through the Cache Administration page. Simply find the Lang...
Too Many Connections
When your Moodle database is overloaded you might see errors like this (MySQL/MariaDB) in your PH...
Setting up a Scheduled Task for your Plugin
Ther are two parts to setting up a scheduled task in your plugin. Create the task class under c...
PHP Session Save Path
You can find the session.save_path through php info or using the command line: php -i | grep ses...
Learn PHP
PHP: The Right Way "PHP: The Right Way is an easy-to-read, quick reference for PHP popular codin...
PHP get key and value in loop
A cool little trick with foreach loops in PHP is you can get both the key and the value of associ...
PHP Syntax Check
Ever had to make a change to a PHP file on the fly only to discover you made a syntax error? E.g....
Assigning Site Administrations through the Database
The following steps can be used to add your user as a siteadmin in the database if required. Ste...
Undefined Property $webserviceprotocols
When this error occurs there is no result from the web service. In the PHP error log the followin...
Hide My Profile Messages
To hide the navigation: My Profile > Messages For all users: This is set by the config...
Hide My Profile Forum Posts
To hide the navigation: My Profile > Forum Posts For all users: Set the configuration ...
Convert URL object to string
There’s a method in the moodle_url class in lib/weblib.php called __toString() which will convert...
Page Layouts
Page layouts are used to determine how each page is rendered via the following call: $PAGE->s...
Time Zones
Moodle time zone information in the first instance is loaded from: https://download.moodle.org/t...
WSDL for a SOAP based Web Service
When you enable SOAP based web services through Moodle: Site administration > Plugins > ...
Forcing Plugin Reinstallation
The easiest way to get moodle to re-run installation is to update the version in version.php. Ho...