How to create a button in a HTML block

How to create a button in a HTML block

by Anila Thomas Varghese -
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I would like to add a button to a HTML block, so that when the button is clicked it goes to another page depending on the course id. I am using Moodle 3.3.4+. 

Does anyone has an idea on how to do this?

Thank you 

Anila

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Re: How to create a button in a HTML block

by Justin Hunt -
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Without any sort of plugin, you would go into the html view of your html area and paste code like this:

<a href="/MYCOOLPAGE.HTML" class="btn btn-primary">SOME TEXT</a>

That will become a button linked to /MYCOOLPAGE.HTML 

So you would just change the all caps to make it an address and a button caption that work for you.

Toggle the html view of the editor with this button ...


I just did it here ... this is the button ...


SOME TEXT
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Re: How to create a button in a HTML block

by Anila Thomas Varghese -

Thank you for replying. That was helpful and I was able to create a button in HTML block.

Now I have a more specific case. The html block has a button that has to be viewed only by the teachers and some other code for unity that has to be viewed only by the students. Is this possible? 

I know there is possibility in changing the permission and we can even use the require_capability function to check the permission based on the context. But all these are applicable to the entire block. 

But in my specific case , the button should be visible to the teachers to define a value particular for the course and the unity code should be accessible for students.

Can anyone help in this case?

Waiting for your reply.

Best Regards

Anila

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Re: How to create a button in a HTML block

by Justin Hunt -
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You can specify different permissions per HTML block.

So you could have a teacher version of the block and a student version of the block.

e.g


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Re: How to create a button in a HTML block

by Anila Thomas Varghese -

Thank you for replying.

I have found a solution for my case.

Putting my solution so that it can be helpful for others.

I have a student and teacher version for the same block. A button to enter a value for each course by the teacher and a javascript code for interacting with the students.

For making the button on the block available for the teacher, I have given block/xyz:use  in access.php for the teacher.

For accessing the javascript code for the student, In the php code I check the has_capability function and if it satisfies the button is displayed, else the javascript is displayed through an echo.~

Hope this helps somebody.

Best Regards

Anila

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