Hello everyone.
I've been frantically searching the forums to find an answer to this, if I have missed anything, please forgive me.
My Problem:
I want to show the Participant list on the main front page of my Moodle installation. I want both students and teachers to see it (which I found in the Variables section of the Admin panel). I understand that students on the same course can see each others profiles, but they can't see each other on the main site.
My Objective:
What I do want it to do is have all students be able view each others profiles on the main site.
My Solution:
To achieve my objective, all I did was comment out lines 67-76 out from /user/view.php :
67 if ($course->id == SITEID and !$currentuser) { // To reduce possibility of "browsing" userbase at site level
68 if (!isteacherinanycourse() and !isteacherinanycourse($user->id) ) { // Teachers can browse and be browsed at site level
69 print_header("$personalprofile: ", "$personalprofile: ",
70 "<a href=\"index.php?id=$course->id\">$participants</a>",
71 "", "", true, " ", navmenu($course));
72 print_heading(get_string('usernotavailable', 'error'));
73 print_footer($course);
74 die;
75 }
76 }
My Questions:
I hope by doing this I haven't caused any issues anywhere else on the site. My questions are:
- Is what I've done safe?
- Can I modify the site so that students can show/hide their profile to other students? If so, does a hack like this already exist?
My being grateful for any help 
:
I'd like to thank in advance for any help received.
With my best regards,
Kunal Kapoor