Student projects/SQLite

Note: This page outlines ideas for the XMLDB/SQLite project. It's a specification under construction! If you have any comments or suggestions, please add them to the page comments.

This project is about adding SQLite to the Moodle database abstraction layer and adding a mechanism to copy a live Moodle database into a SQLite database to implement a mechanism to switch into 'testing mode' using a SQLite copy of the live database.

Summary

This project is part of the 2008 edition of Google Summer of Code (GSoC). Mentor: Penny Leach. Student: Andrei Bautu.

The objective of this project is to extend Moodle's database support and features. The main working directions established in the proposal are:

• implement SQLite database support in Moodle
• implement a generic tool which will allow administrators to switch between a testing database and the live database.

See also

• GSOC/2008
• XMLDB/SQLite application abstract
• Using Moodle How to add sqlite-support? forum discussion