Student projects/Admin page cleanup

Source code now available on CVS (web access here)

Key Project Tasks

• (done) Design XML DTD (done) Design OO format for admin
• (almost done -- 3 issues remaining) Design new admin block
• (in progress -- 100% complete) Reorganize and port Moodle admin settings to OO structure
• (done, except for possible bugs) Code script for displaying and accepting input from new admin interface
• (done) Build a per-user bookmarking system for admin settings
• (not yet started) Code the necessary PHP to highlight changed settings after an upgrade

Remaining Issues

• (getting somewhere on this) Find a good way to mark settings that are set on initial install
• (getting somewhere on this) Find a good way to display settings that are added (or set to default values) during an upgrade
• Figure out how user_is_editing() should work in admin/pagelib.php
• Specify the $paramtype for all admin_setting_configtext objects and children
• Specify the $role for all admin_externalpage and admin_settingpage objects
• Specify explicit $precedence values for all admin_externalpage, admin_settingpage, and admin_category objects
• Fix non-language-specific strings, and add required langfile strings
• Work out a way to handle gd_version
• Consider adding icons and/or custom names for admin bookmarks
• Fix icons in admin_2 block to be theme-dependent
• Find out if admin_2 block can be set up as an HTML list (and still work with Javascript)
• Fix admin/pagelib.php to include admin_2 and admin_bookmarks as default blocks
• For the course management section, allow view-only-mode? (i.e. the mode in which you don't edit categories)
• Work out which files can be safely removed from the admin dir
• See if we can eliminate the old admin block (bear in mind it's still used on course pages)

Links

• Get back to the Student Projects listing.
• You can get my official SoC app here.
• My sample moodle setups are here for 1.5, here for 1.6 and here for 1.7 beta.