Development:Output renderers: Difference between revisions
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Abstract class every other renderer must extend. | |||
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Revision as of 17:54, 7 January 2010
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Goals
- stable API
- easy to use
- easy to customise via themes
Renderers
Output renderer is a class with collection of methods that handle rendering of visual aspects of Moodle pages, emails, html export, etc. In 1.9 general output related functions were located in weblib.php and modules stored rendering code in lib.php, locallib.php, view.php, etc.
Output renderer instances are obtained through moodle_page::get_renderer($component, $subtype = null, $target = null) method. Current core_renderer is available through the global $OUTPUT variable, please note this global should not be used in low level APIs and scripts like cron.
Renderer targets
renderer_base
Abstract class every other renderer must extend.
