Talk:External database enrolment
Dear Americans, not everyone spells the word enrolment the way you do ;-) I just rolled back some edits.--Tim Hunt 06:21, 26 March 2009 (UTC)
Example External Enrollment
In this example using a MySQL database pulling information from a Powerschool server. A Java Script pulls the following information on a cron job and places it into a Mysql database.
The External Database has 2 tables courses and enrollments Courses Table has the following Fields:
- id - Unique Key that autoincrements
- fullname - The full name of the course
- shortname - the shortname of the course
- idnumber - a unique id number for the course in this case the same as the shortname
- category - the category number (same as in the Moodle database)
The enrollments table has the following fields
- id - a unique key that autoincrements and is unused in external enrollments
- student_number - a unique number that matches the idnumber field in moodle_users table
- courseNumber - a number that matches the course's idnumber
- role - either teacher or student
In the: /admin/settings.php?section=enrolsettingsdatabase page
- Database Driver - mysqli
- Database host - localhost (the external database is on the same server)
- Database User - a User with access to the database and the ability to run SET NAMES 'utf8'
- Database password - the database user's password
- Database Name - moodlesync in this example
- Database Encoding - utf-8
- Database Setup command - SET NAMES 'utf8'
- Local Course field - idnumber
- Local user field - idnumber
- local role field - shortname
- Remote User Enrollment Table - enrolments
- Remote course field - courseNumber
- Remote user field - student_number
- Remote role field - role
- Default Role - Student
- External unenrol action - Keep User Enrolled (just in case so grades are not purged).
- Remote new courses - courses
- New course full name - fullname
- New course short name - shortname
- New course ID number field - idnumber
- New course category id field - category
- Default new course category - Miscellaneous
This is a setup that has been tested to work in Moodle 2.0 using the External Database Enrolment. It also can work with the syntonization script run with the command:
sudo /PATHTOPHP/php /PATHTOMOODLE/enrol/database/cli/sync.php
