Hello,
I've looked all over but I can't find any explanation of mandatory code, best practices, etc. for settings.php for an activity module. The only thing available is other modules that have a settings.php file but the comments (or lack thereof) are not very helpful,
Please advise!
Best regards,
Pedro Remedios
Hi Pedro,
Last year when I took over a couple of outdated plugins I found myself with the same problem. I just looked at a bunch of the settings files for other plugins, and mimicked what I saw in them, and just created settings for whatever I thought I needed. I have also installed Code-checker and Moodle PHPdoc check which helped me clean up all my code and make it look like the rest of Moodle.
That's where the problem is: All of them call extend_settings_navigation' but some call 'load_settings'. All I want to do is add a link to show the settings.php page.
Hi Pedro,
If you have an activity module and include a file named, settings.php, then Moodle will automatically add a link to settings.php and it will be at Administration > Site administration > Plugins > Activity modules > YourModulelName.
If you look around in MoodleDocs you'll find some info, like:
https://docs.moodle.org/dev/NEWMODULE_Documentation#Some_very_important_missing_files
https://docs.moodle.org/dev/Admin_settings#Individual_settings