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Welcome to the Developer Documentation.

These Developer Docs are for developers who work with Moodle code, plugins and themes, or contribute to the Moodle project in other ways, such as translation.

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

Overview

• Mission
• Roadmap
• Releases
• Development processes
• Developer meetings
• Working Groups
• Forum discussions
• Developer credits/statistics
• Research
• Testing

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
• Exporter API
• File API
• Form API
• Logging
• Navigation API
• Page API
• Persistent API
• Output API
• String API

Full list of core APIs ...

Guidelines

• Coding guidelines
• Git use
• Contributing plugins
• Creating patches
• PHPUnit tests
• Acceptance testing
• Writing tests
• Aria Guidelines
• HTML Guidelines
• Automatic class loading
• Templates
• Javascript Modules
• AJAX
• Communication Between Components

Developer tools

• Linting
• Setting up Eclipse
• Setting up Netbeans
• Firefox extensions

Full list of developer tools ...

Moodle Mobile

• Moodle Mobile Customization
• Moodle Mobile Plugins Development
• Moodle Mobile Themes
• Moodle Mobile Developing a plugin tutorial

Full list of mobile app documentation ...