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This Developer section of Moodle Docs is aimed at developers who contribute to the Moodle code, plugins, themes, and so on.

If you manage a Moodle site, Administrator documentation may suit your needs better.
If you teach using Moodle, try Teacher documentation.

Note: New developer documentation pages should be added to the Development namespace by typing Development: before the new page name i.e. [[New page name]]. If you are a developer, you probably want to change your preferences to include the Development namespace in searches.

A page may be added to the Developer category by adding the template {{CategoryDeveloper}} to the bottom of the page. - If required, you can use [[Category:Sort key]] to provide a sort key other than the default page name.

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Tools

Some tools people use when working on Moodle code:

IDEs

Setting up NetBeans for Moodle development - NetBeans for PHP is a great out-of-the-box editor.
Setting up Eclipse for Moodle development - Eclipse is a great editor to use for php development, if you can work out how to set it up.
Setting up Vim for Moodle development
Aptana Studio 2

Browser add-ons

Firebug, see Firebug for details.
Web developer extension
ViewSourceWith - The main goal is to view page source with external applications, but you can do a lot of other things as well.

Miscellaneous

Ctags - Using a tags file to navigate code
W3C HTML validator - Moodle has built in support to make using it easier.
Windows Installer - Windows Installer documentation for developer.

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-== Resources ==
+== Speaking in English E-Learning Course ==
-*[[Developer FAQ]] - frequently asked questions, especially useful for newcomers to Moodle
+Speaking in English E-Learning Course
-*[[Finding_your_way_into_the_Moodle_code|Finding your way into the Moodle code]] - also aimed at newcomers
-*[http://tracker.moodle.org/ Moodle tracker] - bug reports, feature requests and other tracked issues
-**[[Firefox tracker search]] - How to setup a firefox quicksearch to easily navigate to moodle bugs
-**[[Firefox tracker search#Firefox Search Plugins|Firefox Search Plugins]] - Find tracked issues even more easily
-*[[Unmerged files]] - changes on the stable branch in CVS that have not been merged to [[HEAD]]
-*Browse the code online:
-**[http://cvs.moodle.org/moodle/ the code with a complete change history from CVS]
-**[http://xref.moodle.org/index.html the code, with links generated by PHPXref]
-*[http://phpdocs.moodle.org/ Moodle PHP doc reference] - compiled nightly from the comment attached to each class and function in the code.
-*[[Database Schema|Database Schema]] - for recent releases
-*[http://moodle.org/course/view.php?id=5#4 Development news and discussion] section of Using Moodle course
-**especially the [http://moodle.org/mod/forum/view.php?id=55 General developer forum]
-**[[Filters used on the Moodle.org forums|cool tricks you can use in the moodle.org forums]]
 == Tools ==

Documentation

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Tools

IDEs

Browser add-ons

Miscellaneous

See also