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Revision as of 14:51, 22 January 2010
Note: This article is a work in progress. Please use the page comments or an appropriate moodle.org forum for any recommendations/suggestions for improvement.
Databases and Moodle
When talking about Moodle and databases there are actually two different kind of things which can be meant:
- a) The Moodle activity named Database
- b) The database on your server where Moodle stores all its content
a) Database activity module
Moodle Docs
- Category:Database activity module
- Database activity module
- Database activity module FAQ
- Database activity module forum
- How do I import and export database entries?
b) Moodle database
Moodle Docs
- Category:DB
- Databases forum
- Development:Database schema introduction
- Development:Database Schema - The files available here are in DBDesigner 4 format. DBDesigner 4 is a schema drawing program for MySQL data bases released under GPL.
- Create Moodle site database
Moodle Forums
- "Moodle database design issues I'd like to tackle/see tackled" in the Moodle forum (from 2007).
- MySQL workbench file for download (for using with MySQL Workbench). - Related forum discussion: Referential integrity in Moodle
Miscellaneous
- "Database abstraction layers and Moodle" from Christopher Douce's blog (Open University)
Moodle core libraries
Moodle's core libraries provide lots of functions for working with the database. See /lib/datalib.php for higher level functions and /lib/dmllib.php for lower level functions.
XMLDB
XMLDB stores the database definition in an XML format that can be used to install Moodle on any database.
- Development:Database
- Development:XMLDB Documentation
- Development:XMLDB defining an XML structure#The XMLDB editor
- XMLDB editor
- Category:XMLDB
Introduction to Moodle Programming course:
- Unit 7 - Part A: Block Basics: Create a Database Table for the Block
- Unit 7 - Appendix B: The XMLDB Editor
Different kinds of databases
- MySQL
- MSSQL - see Installing MSSQL for PHP
- Oracle - see Installing Oracle for PHP
- PostgreSQL
New database layer in Moodle 2.0
- See Development:DB_layer_2.0.
- For new features in Moodle 2.0 see Development:Coding#Database.
- Delegated transactions on Moodle Docs and the related forum discussion on Database transactions in Moodle
See also:
- Moodle Documentation Forum discussion about Categories "DB" and "Database"
