Sounds like you want an externallib.php in your plugin that can house the calls to the libraries you want to access internally, then expose these through to
javascript using
ajax calls. This is basically a web service call, just through ajax.
In your plugin (block/activity/local/etc) you would have a db/services.php to define `$functions` for the class hosting the function call, something iike
$functions = [
'local_foobar_calcstuff' => [
'classname' => 'local_foobar_external',
'methodname' => 'calc_stuff',
'classpath' => 'local/foobar/externallib.php',
'description' => 'my name',
'type' => 'read',
'capabilities' => 'moodle/course:view',
'ajax' => true,
'loginrequired' => true
];
in `local/foobar/externallib.php` you would have its function handlers
public static function calc_stuff_returns()
{return new \external_single_structure(
[ ... etc
public static function cal_stuff_parameters()
return new \external_function_parameters(
[ ... etc
public static function submit_questionnaire_feedback($cmid, $somevalue, ... etc
...
return ['result'=>json_encode($sum)]; // or whatever
(you have to bump the plugin version to register function names in the external functions table)
then from your ajax you might
require(['core/ajax'], function(Ajax) {
var promise;
promise = Ajax.call([{
methodname: 'local_foobar_calcstuff',
args: {
cmid: 5,
somevalue: "2+2",
}
}], true, true, true, 0);
promise[0].then(data => {
return
JSON.parse(data.output);
}).then(result => {
// output it somehow
}).fail(console.warn);
});
