Note:

If you want to create a new page for developers, you should create it on the Moodle Developer Resource site.

Setting up development environment

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This is a quick guide which contains all the tools you'll need to configure your development environment:

Git

Apache + PHP

More information: Category:Installation

Dabatase

Moodle Development Kit (MDK)

Only for Linux and MacOS (not available for Windows)

  • Setup
    • Sample to create some instances (both based on master, first using PostgreSQL and second MySQL:

mdk create --install --engine pgsql --run mindev users makecourse mdk create --install --engine mysqli --run mindev users makecourse -n stable_master-mysql

  • Behat
    • JRE
    • GoogleChrome driver (Firefox stopped working)

IDE

Other tools

Docker