Hi,
I am having problems with uploading my own block into my Moodle site. I have copied my block files into the block folder of the Moodle directory, however when I go to see if the file has been loaded, there is no notification confirming the block has been uploaded. Also when I look at the XMLDB editor page under site administrator, the block isn't listed. Can someone help please!
Thanks in advance
Rob
Hi Rob,
Do you have all the required files for the block? E.g., for block_example:
Where blocks in the above is the Moodle blocks directory.
See https://docs.moodle.org/dev/Blocks#Ready.2C_Set.2C_Go.21 for more information.
Hi Sam, Thanks for getting back to me. I have copied a picture of my file structure from netbeans. I have also loaded my block.php file as well, which I have built through following the online developer documentation. Can you you have a look at it for me, and let me know what I am missing. I need to get it loaded, so that I start playing around with it.
Thanks
Rob
Hi Rob,
Take a look again at the documentation and the code for one of the core blocks, like https://github.com/moodle/moodle/tree/MOODLE_30_STABLE/blocks/blog_tags.
A couple things I noticed, though, are that your block-qeims.php should be block_qeims.php (underscore instead of a dash) and it should only contain the class definition, nothing else. Any HTML you want to appear in the block should be returned from the get_content() method.
Styles for your block should be added via a styles.css file and the lang file should be in lang/en/block_qeims.php.
Cheers,
Sam
