Development:Developer documentation

This Developer section of Moodle Docs is aimed at developers who contribute to the Moodle code, plugins, themes, and so on.

• If you manage a Moodle site, Administrator documentation may suit your needs better.
• If you teach using Moodle, try Teacher documentation.

Note: New developer documentation pages should be added to the Development namespace by typing Development: before the new page name i.e. [[Development:New page name]]. If you are a developer, you probably want to change your preferences to include the Development namespace in searches.

A page may be added to the Developer category by adding the template {{CategoryDeveloper}} to the bottom of the page. - If required, you can use [[Category:Developer|Sort key]] to provide a sort key other than the default page name.

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Resources

• Developer FAQ - frequently asked questions, especially useful for newcomers to Moodle
• Finding your way into the Moodle code - also aimed at newcomers
• Moodle tracker - bug reports, feature requests and other tracked issues
  • Firefox tracker search - How to setup a firefox quicksearch to easily navigate to moodle bugs
  • Firefox Search Plugins - Find tracked issues even more easily
• Unmerged files - changes on the stable branch in CVS that have not been merged to HEAD
• Browse the code online:
  • the code with a complete change history from CVS
  • the code, with links generated by PHPXref
• Moodle PHP doc reference - compiled nightly from the comment attached to each class and function in the code.
• Database Schema - for recent releases
• Development news and discussion section of Using Moodle course
  • especially the General developer forum
  • cool tricks you can use in the moodle.org forums

Tools

Some tools people use when working on Moodle code:

IDEs

• Setting up NetBeans for Moodle development - NetBeans for PHP is a great out-of-the-box editor.
• Setting up Eclipse for Moodle development - Eclipse is a great editor to use for php development, if you can work out how to set it up.
• Setting up Vim for Moodle development
• Aptana Studio 2

Browser add-ons

• Firebug, see Firebug for details.
• Web developer extension
• ViewSourceWith - The main goal is to view page source with external applications, but you can do a lot of other things as well.

Miscellaneous

• Ctags - Using a tags file to navigate code
• W3C HTML validator - Moodle has built in support to make using it easier.
• Windows Installer - Windows Installer documentation for developer.

See also: Useful Development Tools forumin the Introduction to Moodle Programming course

See also

• Moodle Security Announcements
• Moodle Partners - providers of custom Moodle development services