Workshop/fakesubmissions.php

For those who debug or test workshop, the following script might be useful. It simply creates fake submissions for all potential authors in the given workshop.

Put the script into /mod/workshop and execute it via CLI, providing the cmid argument (which is the one passed as view.php?id=xx via the web).

<?php

/**
 * Generate a fake submission for all authors in the workshop
 *
 * This is usefull for testing and debugging the workshop module.
 * Put this into the /mod/workshop folder and execute it via the command line.
 *
 * @package    mod_workshop
 * @copyright  2012 David Mudrak <david.mudrak@gmail.com>
 * @license    http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html GNU GPL v3 or later
 */

define('CLI_SCRIPT', true);

require_once(dirname(dirname(dirname(__FILE__))).'/config.php');
require_once(dirname(__FILE__).'/locallib.php');
require_once($CFG->libdir.'/clilib.php');

list($options, $unrecognized) = cli_get_params(array('cmid' => false));

if (empty($options['cmid'])) {
    cli_error('Missing --cmid (course module id) argument');
} else {
    $cmid = (int)$options['cmid'];
}

$cm       = get_coursemodule_from_id('workshop', $cmid, 0, false, MUST_EXIST);
$course   = $DB->get_record('course', array('id' => $cm->course), '*', MUST_EXIST);
$workshop = $DB->get_record('workshop', array('id' => $cm->instance), '*', MUST_EXIST);
$workshop = new workshop($workshop, $cm, $course);

// get the list of authors we need to generate submission for
$potentialauthors = $workshop->get_potential_authors(false);
$existingauthors = $workshop->get_potential_authors(true);
$authors = array_diff_key($potentialauthors, $existingauthors);

// fetch the submission text from lipsum.com
$lipsum = simplexml_load_file('http://www.lipsum.com/feed/xml?amount=3&what=paras&start=1')->lipsum;
$lipsum = text_to_html(reset($lipsum));

foreach ($authors as $author) {
    // prepare the record to insert into the database
    $record = new stdClass();
    $record->workshopid             = $workshop->id;
    $record->example                = 0;
    $record->authorid               = $author->id;
    $record->timecreated            = time() - rand(0, HOURSECS);
    $record->timemodified           = $record->timecreated;
    $record->feedbackauthorformat   = FORMAT_HTML;
    $record->title                  = fullname($author)."'s submission";
    $record->content                = $lipsum;
    $record->contentformat          = FORMAT_HTML;
    $record->contenttrust           = 0;
    $record->late                   = 0;

    $id = $DB->insert_record('workshop_submissions', $record);

    fputs(STDOUT, sprintf('%-5d %s', $id, $record->title).PHP_EOL);
}