We need a couple of profile fields added when installing a plugin. Is there any API for that? Or is manual insertion into `mdl_user_info_field` the only way to accomplish that?
I found an old issue on the tracker, but that seems to have been dropped at the time: https://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-26347 Has something changed over the last decade?
You can put code like this in the upgrade.php / install.php for your plugin:
if (!$DB->record_exists('user_info_field',
['shortname' => self::USER_FIELD_USERTYPE, 'categoryid' => $category->id])) {
$field = (object)[
'shortname' => self::USER_FIELD_USERTYPE,
'name' => 'User type',
'datatype' => 'text',
'description' => '',
'categoryid' => $category->id,
'sortorder' => 4,
'locked' => 1,
'defaultdata' => '',
'param1' => 16, // Display size.
'param2' => 128 // Max length.
];
$errors = $define->define_validate($field, []);
if (empty($errors)) {
$define->define_save($field);
} else {
throw new \coding_exception('Invalid user info field', $errors);
}
}