Developer documentation
How you can contribute
Even if you are not a programmer there are things you can change or help with.
- Activity modules
- Themes
- Translation
- Database schemas
- Course formats
- Participating in the bug tracker
Guides for developers
- Moodle architecture
- Coding guidelines
- Interface_guidelines
- Moodle CVS for developers
- A Step-by-step Guide To Creating Blocks
Plans for the future
Ideas for and details of planned future features of Moodle are initially discussed on the forums in the Using Moodle course at moodle.org. That developer discussions are intermixed with user discussions in the same forums may seem strange at first but is one of the reasons for the success of Moodle. It is important that both end-users and developers discuss the future features together.
Once ideas begin to crystalize on the forums they can be summarized in this wiki, either as part of the Roadmap or in the form of Developer notes. These pages then form the basis for further discussion in the forums.
Documentation for specific components
This section is for documentation of specific components of the existing core Moodle code. Discussion of components that are under discussion or in development can be found in the Developer notes or on the Roadmap.
- Migration to UTF-8
- Quiz module
- SCORM module 1.5 schema
- Authentication API
- Stats package
- Email processing
- Cookieless Sessions
Developer resources and tools
- Moodle bug tracker - bug reports, feature requests and other tracked issues
- CVS code
- Cross reference - phpxref output for browsing Moodle source code
- Core API
- Moodle PHP doc reference
- 1.4 and 1.5 un-merged files
See also
- Moodle Security Centre
- Moodle Partners - providers of custom Moodle development services
- Presentations
- Moodle manuals
- Using Moodle book
