Well, yeah... there was a whole different architecture for Moodle v1.9 and v2... As well, as I understand it, few of the third-party plugins for v1.9 are being adapted to v2. For most of them, the original author and/or maintainer is not interested in continuing, and Moodle.org does not have the human resources to be able to assign a team to rewrite these plugins.
If you are looking at replicating an existing plugin, then you may be able to use the existing v1.9 code. Better contact the author and get permission to do so, but if you cannot make any contact, then best to ask, perhaps you can be listed as the assigned maintainer.
If you are looking at writing your own, you may need to be able to provide the provenance for that plugin. (That is, original proposal, original outline, early models and development pathways etc.)
In either case, you may want to start here, using the guidelines to make your module.
There is a list in the Moodle Tracker of useful modules that need to be updated. Good luck..
thank you both guys.
Frank, the newmodule template you gave, looks that is compatible with moodle 2.1. It is a good help to start with. Thank you
Hi,
Thanks for the link, Frank. I tried it in the latest build of Moodle 2.1.1 on a localhost server, following the installation instructions, but it doesn't install and gets stuck in a loop. There are no error messages and I've got debugging set in developer mode.
It's a fresh Moodle install with all the required and recommended PHP extensions and very liberal database and server read-write permissions, on WampServer 2.1.
Any idea why?
Hey Matt,
I have managed to install it without problems, using localhost server but under apache (I dont think it makes any different though).
I followed all the instructions by skipping the one that was saying to create our database tables. So I have first installed it with the basic table that included on the module and then I added new tables. You may want to try that.
Later when I created my new tables I had to modify db/upgrade.php to apply changes and I made a syntax error on php code. This got stuck in a loop and upgrade couldnt carry on. So make sure that if you have changed anything on *.php files you dont have any syntax errors.
I am completely new on moodle so I am not expert to give you a solution. I just give you the personal issues I faced when trying to install it. Somebody else may give you a much better answer.
Where can I find that NEWMODULE template for 2.0? I see one here but its for Moodle 1.7+. Is that still good for 2.0?
Thanks
John
Try here:
https://github.com/moodlehq/moodle-mod_newmodule
The one that Frank posted above, but read some of the other posts too, they explain some of the benefits and pitfalls, as well as installation.
Hi,
Can anyone give us an idea of when there'll be a fully functioning NEWMODULE template?