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Moodle 3.x Developer's Guide

You're reading from   Moodle 3.x Developer's Guide Build custom plugins, extensions, modules and more

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jun 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781786467119
Length 368 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Table of Contents (11) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Getting to Grips with the Moodle 3 Architecture FREE CHAPTER 2. Moodle Plugins - What Can I Plug In? 3. Internal Interfaces 4. Course Management 5. Creative Teaching - Developing Custom Resources and Activities 6. Managing Users - Letting in the Crowds 7. Creating a Dashboard - Developing a Learner Homepage 8. Creating a New Skin 9. Moodle Analytics Appendix

Theme plugin structure


Our work in this section is based on the Clean theme--see https://docs.moodle.org/dev/Clean_theme for details. The Clean theme provides the ideal starting point for learning about Moodle themes: as the name suggests, metaphorically speaking it provides the "scaffolding" (the framework)--and it is then up to us to cover the scaffolding with the "skin" (the look-and-feel). The Clean theme is itself based on a theme called bootstrapbase, with Bootstrap being the technology used to provide responsiveness. See https://docs.moodle.org/dev/Bootstrap for details on responsiveness (which is, basically, the ability of a web page to modify itself through CSS, depending on the size and type of device on which it is rendering).

In Eclipse, open the theme/clean folder:

Every theme will have a configuration file, config.php. This is arguably the most important script in a theme so we start our investigation with this. But before we do, let us go back to Eclipse and make a copy of the...

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