My profile API

Introduction

The My Profile API is a set of methods that allows user related information to be displayed on the my profile page. The API is similar to the navigation API as the page is made up of a tree of nodes.

Categories

The category class requires the following properties be filled out when creating a new object:

$name

The name of category. Used as a key for child nodes to attach to, or for other categories to use in $after.

$title

The text being displayed. This needs to be a localised string (get_string());

$after

The name for the category that this category comes after. Optional

$classes

HTML class attributes for this category. Classes should be separated by a space, e.g. 'class1 class2'. Optional

Adding a category

$category = new core_user\output\myprofile\category('badges', get_string('badges', 'badges'), null); $tree->add_category($category);

Nodes

Nodes contain most of the information for the user profile page. The node class requires the following properties be filled out when creating a new object:

$parentcat

The parent category. Use the name of the category that this node belongs to.

$name

The name of this node. Used as a key for other nodes.

$title

A localised string for the node. Please use get_string().

$after

By using the name of another node you can position this after that one. Optional

$url

A url that this node links to. It is recommended that you use a moodle_url. Optional

$content

Additional content to display under this node. Optional

$icon

An icon to be displayed next to the node. May be a pix_icon. Optional

$classes

HTML class attributes for this node. Classes should be separated by a space, e.g. 'class1 class2'. Optional

Adding a node

The following is an example of how to create a node. $url = new moodle_url('/mod/forum/user.php', array('id' => $user->id, 'mode' => 'discussions')); $string = get_string('myprofileowndis', 'mod_forum'); $node = new core_user\output\myprofile\node('miscellaneous', 'forumdiscussions', $string, null, $url); Nodes can be added to categories in two different ways. This first way uses $parentcat to link the node. $tree->add_node($node); If you are creating a category in the same area you can link it the following way where $category has been created further up the page. $category->add_node($node);

Adding information to the User's profile page

To add the category and node information into the my profile page, you need to create a function in the lib.php file. The function needs to start with the component name followed by '_myprofile_navigation()'. You will need to add the following parameters to your function:

$tree

core_user\output\myprofile\tree The myprofile tree to add categories and nodes to.

$user

stdClass The user object that the profile page belongs to.

$iscurrentuser

boolean If the $user object is the current user.

$course

stdClass The course to determine if we are in a course context or system context.

mod/forum/lib.php public function mod_forum_myprofile_navigation(core_user\output\myprofile\tree $tree, $user, $iscurrentuser, $course) {

   ...

}