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Welcome to the Developer Documentation.

These Developer Docs are for developers who work with Moodle code, plugins and themes.

If you manage a Moodle site, or if you teach using Moodle, try the User docs.

Overview

• Releases
• Roadmap
• Development processes
• Developer meetings
• Forum discussions
• Developer credits/statistics

More overview info ...

Plugin development

• Activity modules
• Blocks
• Themes
• Course formats
• Enrolment plugins
• Authentication plugins
• Repository plugins
• Filters

Full list of plugin types ...

Core APIs

• Access API
• Data manipulation API
• File API
• Form API
• Logging API
• Navigation API
• Page API
• Output API
• String API

Full list of core APIs ...

Guidelines

• Coding guidelines
• Git use
• Contributing code
• Creating patches
• PHPUnit tests
• Writing tests

More concepts and guides...

Developer tools

• Setting up Eclipse
• Setting up Netbeans
• Firefox extensions

Full list of developer tools ...

Projects

• Mobile app
• Question Engine 2
• Course completion
• Student projects

Full list of projects ...