How can I get the current section when the user is on a module specific page (e.g. mod/page/view.php?id=2). Or how to get the section a given module belongs to?
I know how to get all modules of a section but is there a simple way to determine the section a given module belongs to without searching the module in all sections?
You have that information in the DB table called 'course_modules'. You will need a query such as:
SELECT cm.section FROM {course_modules} cm
INNER JOIN {modules} m ON cm.module = m.id
WHERE m.name = 'NAMEOFTHEMODULE' AND cm.instance = MODULEINSTANCE
I hope it helps!
A standard module already have this data in an object usually called $cm.
Just call $cm->section to get what you need.
Thank you. Actually it was too obvious. Now I use $this->page->cm->section (note: this is the section number, not id) in my renderer.
Correction for my previous post: the note was wrong: (note: this is the section number, not id). Of course $cm->section is the id of the section and not the section number (see the section member documentation of the cm_info class). A Little bit confusing because section_info->section is the section number.
