Enrolment

This isn't an enrolment plugin as such, but I though some of you in the Moodle community might find this information useful.

This hack allows users with the role "moodle:site/uploadusers" to use the upload users facility even if they're not an admin. The hack duplicates the upload users page at the course level to achieve this. I've tried to change as little as possible to make this a workable hack.

1. Make a copy of "uploaduser.php" (found in "moodle/admin) and put it in "moodle/courses".

2. Comment out the following if statement in "uploaduser.php" to stop the script returning an error if a default field is missing from the file:

foreach ($required as $key => $value) {
if ($value) { //required field missing
#error(get_string('fieldrequired', 'error', $key), 'uploaduser.php?sesskey='.$USER->sesskey);
}
}

3. Add the following code to the file (best to put it near the top):

$id = required_param('id', PARAM_INT); // course id to import TO

if (!$course1 = get_record('course', 'id', $id)) {
error("That's an invalid course id");
}

4. You also need to change this line:

require_capability('moodle/site:uploadusers', get_context_instance(CONTEXT_SYSTEM, SITEID));

So that it looks like this:

require_capability('moodle/site:uploadusers', get_context_instance(CONTEXT_COURSE, $id));

5. Next, find the section of the code that deals with the header (admin_externalpage_print_header($adminroot);) and replace with the following code:

print_header($course1->fullname.': '.$upusers, $course1->fullname.': '.$upusers,'<a href="view.php?id='.$course1->id.'">'.$course1->shortname.'</a> -> '.$upusers);

6. Find the code that prints the form (near the bottom):

echo '<form method="post" enctype="multipart/form-data" action="uploaduser.php"><div>'.

Change the action type to ""uploaduser.php?id='.$course1->id.'".

7. Install the "Add/Update Users" block (download it here). This block only displays if a user has the permission to upload users. It displays a link to the upload users page and a link to a help file, which contains some basic information about how to use the page.

Don't think I've missed any steps out, but best to try the hack out on a test server first if you intend to use it in a production environment.

Enjoy,

Marty