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How can moodle be hacked so that one can enter moodle variables such as course->id  and course->user into the text of the Course Settings Summary.

I've been brainstorming this one for a while & havent found a solution.

I need to create a link to http://www.moodlesite.com/user/edit.php?id=X&course=Y
where X is the course->id
and     Y is the coure ->user

I've tried directly editing the mysql insert using phpmyadmin, but php doesnt change <?PHP echo"$course->id";?> to the value, but instead just prints out "<?PHP echo"$course->id;?> in the source code.

I cannot think of a way around this, and I need to find a way to link this.  I know it seems like a trivial thing, but its a feature that is very necissary to the site's usability.

Thanks for any suggestions.

Possible ideas, of which I'm not very familiar w/ are using moodlesession, or hacking the enroll.php course summary page to send the variables to every page that is linked from it (how?), linking to a page that will somehow get the variables from the moodlesession and redirect the user to the apropriate page w/ the variables in the url. 

Are any of these possible?  thanks