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Learn why, where, and how to add to add JavaScript to your Moodle site

Get the most out of Moodle's built-in extra‚Äîthe Yahoo! User Interface Library (YUI)

Explore a wide range of modern interactive features, from AJAX to Animation

Integrate external libraries like jQuery framework with Moodle

Description

Moodle is the best e-learning solution on the block and is revolutionizing courses on the Web. Using JavaScript in Moodle is very useful to administrators and dynamic developers as it uses built-in libraries to provide the modern and dynamic experience that is expected by web users today.The Moodle JavaScript Cookbook will take you through the basics of combining Moodle with JavaScript and its various libraries and explain how JavaScript can be used along with Moodle. It will explain how to integrate Yahoo! User Interface Library (YUI) with Moodle. YUI will be the main focus of the book, and is the key to implementing modern, dynamic feature-rich interfaces to help your users get a more satisfying and productive Moodle experience. It will enable you to add effects, make forms more responsive, use AJAX and animation, all to create a richer user experience. You will be able to work through a range of YUI features, such as pulling in and displaying information from other websites, enhancing existing UI elements to make users' lives easier, and even how to add animation to your pages for a nice finishing touch.

Who is this book for?

This book is aimed at developers and administrators comfortable with customizing Moodle with the use of plugin modules, themes, and patches who want to make their site more dynamic. If you have prior knowledge of HTML, PHP, and CSS and a good working knowledge of the underlying structure of Moodle, then this book is for you. No prior experience with JavaScript is needed.

What you will learn

Get started with the Yahoo! User Interface Library

Add validation features to your Moodle forms

Retrieve and process data from external sites in a range of formats using AJAX

Add feature rich spreadsheet-style data tables‚Äîsorting, paging, and inline editing

Add auto-complete functionality to text boxes and combo boxes

Make use of advanced navigation controls‚Äîdrop-down menus, tabbed panels, and modal windows

Use animation techniques‚Äîfading, scrolling, and resizing

Integrate external libraries such as JQuery framework, MooTools framework, and Dojo framework

Initialize a YUI DataSource

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Chris Swan Jul 26, 2011

The Moodle JavaScript Cookbook by Alastair Hole is an ideal resource for the developer wishing to customise a standard installation. Basic JavaScript knowledge is needed to gain the most benefit from this book however there is a Pandora's box of code waiting for you to experiment with. In his book, Alastair explores different tools that are available to make Moodle work harder for you. There is excellent coverage of the use of JavaScript libraries to improve the Moodle UI as well as importing and using currently available external libraries. Different methods of achieving the outcome are demonstrated leading to flexible solution development. The Moodle JavaScript Cookbook makes a useful reference and tutorial but also is also a great book to flick through during your developers' coffee break in search of a serendipity moment.Chris Swan

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W. Baars Aug 04, 2011

One of the mayor 'complaints' about open source lms systems such as Moodle is the fact that the 'looks' can be a bit dissapointing. Now with the surge of HTML 5 (javascript) for those who can, it is possible to make moodle look great or make it even more interactive.In the moodle community there is a lot to find about not-so-technical stuff, but for those who want to get deeper into it, you may be on your own a bit. This book will help those technical guys and girls. You may need to know some php, html but you do not need to know any javascript for this book.

luisdev Mar 27, 2014

This book was written in May 2011 - almost three years ago as I write this. A lot has changed in Moodle in those three years. So, how relevant is this book to the current version of Moodle (2.6)? Does the content of this book still apply to the current version of Moodle and can we still use what this teaches to develop JavaScript in the current versions Moodle? A lot has changed in Moodle since 2011!Are there any plans to publish a new updated version?

Moodle JavaScript Cookbook: Make Moodle e-learning even more dynamic by learning to customize using JavaScript. With over 50 recipes, this Cookbook allows you to add effects, modify forms, include animations, and much more for an enhanced user experience.

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