Guidance for developing new Moodle Plugin

Guidance for developing new Moodle Plugin

by Sumesh KS -
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Hi all,

I am new to moodle plugin development. We planning to develop a plugin for our school.

The Idea is

1. We have a webpage (created in python/PHP) hosted on another server, this page contains some information. This information on the webpage may change based on the student data. Once students interacted with this external webpage, he/she submit a form or click a link to return to moodle.

We want to send some data from moodle to that external webpage, like student username, email, course name, etc and, store some data in moodle database from the webpage, when students finish the interaction with that webpage.

Currently, we are reading the Moodle plugin development tutorials. It will be helpful to us if anyone can share some knowledge in starting development.


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Re: Guidance for developing new Moodle Plugin

by Mary Cooch -
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Hello Sumesh. When you say "we are reading the Moodle plugin development tutorials" I encourage you to sign up and do the very good Moodle Plugin Development Basics free self-paced course.
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by Richard Oelmann -
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Is there a specific reason for the other server? It may be easier to create this as a Moodle local plugin, particularly as you are trying to get data out and back in - using Moodle itself to create this tool/page would mean simply using Moodle's own internal tools to manage and store that data?
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Re: Guidance for developing new Moodle Plugin

by Sumesh KS -
Hi Richard,
Some third-party programs are hosted on that server. The webpage is using the service of these programs.
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Re: Guidance for developing new Moodle Plugin

by Benjamin Ellis -
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Hi,

Apart from the development documentation pages here on moodle.org including the Tutorial at https://docs.moodle.org/dev/Tutorial, there are a couple of development books – see https://moodle.org/books including my book ‘Introduction to Moodle 3.9+ Plugin Development‘ (https://books2read.com/m39plugindevelopment) and a number of courses -’Moodle Plugin Development Basics’ at https://learn.moodle.org/ (free), the MoodleBites for Developers Level 1 – a little expensive – (https://www.moodlebites.com/mod/page/view.php?id=24546) and a few short specific ones on Udemy (https://www.udemy.com/courses/search/?src=ukw&q=moodle+development).
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Re: Guidance for developing new Moodle Plugin

by Richard Jones -
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Some practical examples of simple blocks and mods also here: https://github.com/richardjonesnz?tab=repositories. Some of these have been developed and are explained in detail within the MoodleBites courses mentioned above. Disclaimer: I have no personal financial interest in those courses.
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