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Thanks Mark,

It was that. As you can see I dont know anything about php. Is there any manual for moodle developpers I could have a look?

I just installed it and need to tweak it a bit.

Thanks,

Javier

Here are some snippets of what I've done so far.  This is experimentation and I'm new to PHP, so take it for what it's worth.

function custom_nav_extends_navigation(global_navigation $navigation) {
 
//get the "Home" node
 $nodeHome = $navigation->children->get('1')->parent;
 
//Rename it
 $nodeHome->title= 'Foo';
 $nodeHome->key='Foo';
 $nodeHome->text = 'Foo';

//Create a child node
$nodeAwesome = $navigation->add('10 Reasons We're Awesome');

//Add children to nodeAwesome. Pretend we have a list "$myList" of links to add.
for ($i = 0; $i <= count($myList); $i += 1)
    $nodeAwesome->add($myList[$i], new moodle_url('/path/to/file/'.$myList[$i]), null, null, $myList[$i]);

//force the node open
$nodeAwesome->forceopen = true;
}

You can put whatever url you like when you add a node.

You should be able to extend the nav block, then recursively loop through all of the nodes starting from "Home" and pluck out the ones you want to remove.

Hi Richard,

You are right.I already change the name of node and others by using Language customisation.

Well it will be great if you can also help me in another issue.

I would like to redirect eh user to particular page after they successfully log in for e.g to this url :http://localhost/moodle/mod/lesson/view.php?id=1

Do you know how to do it.

Thanks

Sabin

Hi Aaricia,

thank you for the feedback. We developed the block using Moodle 2.2, so there might be issues with moodle 2.0. Could you send me a screenshot of the problem? Just to be sure, click on save again in the settings menu.

Also if you do not have the right to access a course, the content is not shown in the menu. So you have to enable guest access in the course, if you want to have the content displayed in the block, when you are not logged in.

Best regards,

David

Hello David,

I tested exhaustively the 'Simple Navigation block' in Moodle 2.2 and Moodle 2.0 and these are my findings:

The block shows the same kind of behaviour for Moodle 2.0 and Moodle 2.0: in general, it works well and displays the courses under the different categories and subcategories, but it is very flaky for some features:

1) It doesn't work very well when you select show modules and, sometimes, it stops displaying courses if you select that option.

As I have customised our theme for Moodle, I tried with different Moodle standard sites and I always have the same problem.

2) The block interferes with the standard Navigation bar, and I think that it is because it is using the same navigation objects. When I say 'interfere', I mean, for instance: before logging in the Moodle site, if you select a category in order to display all the courses under that category, what the blocks does actually is to merge itself with the Navigation bar menu, that is, the Simple Navigation block disappears and the Navigation bar only shows the links to course categories, but not 'Courses for instance, or other elements in the Navigation menu.

Another problem that I have noticed is: if you click on one of the categories, to display the list of courses under that categories, it goes to the page 'moodlesite/course/category.php?id=1', being id the id number of the selected category.

I am totally sure that I haven't clicked on the category hyperlink to go to /category.php?id, just the category icon on the left hand side of the menu.

I am starting to look at the code now to understand how it works.

Regards

Hi David,

About my layout: the structure should look like:

Home
>Overig (1)
  > s1
   > s2
>De Laatste toets (2)
   > Engels
   > Duits
   > Nederlands
   > Frans
>Intensief LEzen (3)
  >Frans
  >Engels
  >Duits
> Demo programma's (4)
> Informatie (5)
FAQ
Hulp

So 5 Categories with sub-categories and 2 modules. The sub- categories coptains courses which are scormpackages. In the messed-up layout some sub-categories are pushed on top of the menu structure.