01 December 2008, 5:20

HI there,

I work for a school in Huddersfield, UK, and we have currently integrated Moodle and Mahara for SSO. My manager would like me to add various functionality to Mahara. I'm just wondering - do you have any developer documentation? Are there any APIs by which i can do things 'properly' ?

 Many thanks,

 Dan Ballance.

01 December 2008, 11:30

Hi Malcom,

Small world! I work for Royds Hall High School in Paddock, Huddersfield. I also develop Moodle for Batley Girls, Shelley College and Spring Grove (a primary).

Getting a little fustrated at the moment that Moodle and Mahara aren't more 'developer friendly' - by which I mean providing a modular/plugin type architecture and apis for developers. Certainly with Moodle, at least, I find myself having to modify the core code far too often (imho).

 I would point to examples like Joomla and Magento as php based systems which are far more  'developer-friendly'.

 cheers,

dan

01 December 2008, 16:27

01 December 2008, 16:32

Hi,

This website was recently relaunched primarily because of this reason. Currently we've got very little documentation because of a few reasons:

1. It's only recently that people have began developing with Mahara in earnest, and thus expressing their desire for documentation
2. Consequently, we had been focusing on development, getting Mahara to a good feature set, rather than documentation. Don't forget Mahara's only 2 years old!
3. The old wiki sucked :)
   

12 December 2008, 5:08

08 January 2009, 8:35

Ok, here's a specific question: I want to develop a new block type for displaying in views. Can you point me towards any documentation to guide me through this process?

 I really like the system so far as I delve through your code.  In my vey humble and tiny opinion - I think it is of a much higher calibre than Moodle.

 Let's have some developer docs and i can get cracking !

 cheers,

dan :-) 

08 January 2009, 9:43

Hi Dan

I just ported over  the blocktype documentation from the old wiki to here:

It may be slightly out of date, but is a good starting point.  If you find it is out of date, or missing anything, please update it as you go!

Hope that helps,

Penny

09 January 2009, 5:48

09 January 2009, 6:09

Also, while i'm at it, is there any documentation for creating new artefacts?

 cheers,

 dan ;-) 

09 January 2009, 7:08

Hi Dan,

i think you speak about new blocktypes?

To create a new artefact is easy, copy a jpg into your datafolder and you have created a bew artefact.

Penny will know where to finde the documentation about buildung blocktypes. Is it in the old wiki?

just found this above:

Hi Dan

I just ported over  the blocktype documentation from the old wiki to here:

It may be slightly out of date, but is a good starting point.  If you find it is out of date, or missing anything, please update it as you go!

Hope that helps,

cheers
Heinz