Student projects/Admin page cleanup
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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.phpSpecify 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 1.6and here for 1.7 beta.