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That would be terrific. Have at it, Hugo!

-- Art

I definitely think it should be an activity module.  The reason is that you might want different certificates for different reasons.  This will allow you to place the certificate anywhere within the course.

I'm also thinking about the "activity locking" or "conditional activities" work upcoming.  This will allow you to "lock" an activity until a given condition is met in another activity - providing more flexibility.

So, for a final certificate, the certificate would not be unlocked until a certain grade in another final activity is achieved (eg an assignment or journal or quiz), and this in turn might not become available until a previous activity was done, and so on.

Finally, the grades system is due a revamp too - it needs to be changed from a "caclulate on the fly by pulling in data" model, to a "modules push data into a central table" model, which allows calculated columns, arbitrary columns, external linking etc etc.  So don't get too comfy with the current setup. 

So if you get a basic module done we can start linking it up properly. 

Is there anywhere I can grab a cp of what you have so far to play with Hugo?

Maybe I can help out as I need one of these.

Do you know of anyone who has linked the certificate to the final grade.

Also can you link the certificate to more than one activity

I guess you might want my email address to send me that.  It's been one of those days. 

jordanilott@shaw.ca

I have patched in support for a static completion date, but I'm something of a newbie when it comes to development for Moodle. I've followed the coding guidelines to the best of my knowledge, but I don't know the procedure for posting my code to the forums.

All it really took was creating a new table called "[prefix]certificate_stats", with the following structure:

CREATE TABLE `certificate_stats` (
`id` int(10) unsigned NOT NULL auto_increment,
`certificateid` int(10) unsigned NOT NULL default '0',
`userid` int(10) unsigned NOT NULL default '0',
`timeseen` int(10) unsigned NOT NULL default '0',
PRIMARY KEY (`id`)
) TYPE=MyISAM COMMENT='Static certificate view times';

And then adding the following lines above the PDF creation code in "view.php":

// Generate or load existing completion date
if (record_exists("certificate_stats", "certificateid", $course->id, "userid", $USER->id)) {
    $view_time = get_field("certificate_stats", "timeseen", "certificateid", $course->id, "userid", $USER->id);
} else {
    $view_time = time();
    insert_record("certificate_stats", array("certificateid" => $course->id, "userid" => $USER->id, "timeseen" => $view_time), false);
}

You can then print the completion date onto the certificate using the "$view_time" variable.

• the display of HTML code if the name of the corse had HTML code included on the Course Settings page. (See attached image.)

i realized that problem... i didn't know that a course name could contain html formatting, but i'll work on this.

• No Settings window for the "Certificate" module on the "Modules" page in "Administration.

That's true. I will put in there a signature's upload section.

• No "Installation Guide" or "How To" document

Ok, good idea.


BTW, where does the "fonts" folder go to. Should it be placed in the "lang" directory or be maintained in the "certificate" directory inside of the "mod" directory?

Inside the mod/certificate directory. The only directory you have to move outside of mod is "lang/".

I also changed the phrase "This Diploma has been conferred for" to "This Diploma has been conferred on" which is not really an error but a matter of language. I did this in the "certificate.php" file which is in the "lang/en" directory.

Yes! that's the place.
Thanks for your feedback.

Hugo

Hi Nicolas,

The new border png is great--we will need to get that into CVS to replace the other one (as well as your translation).

Also, to update my previous post.  Thanks to Bernard Boucher, the certificate can now be "blocked" from access until either a quiz or lesson has been completed, or a resource has been viewed.  See the image to see what it looks like in a course.  The link is dimmed and clicking on it brings up a message such as:  "You must complete the quiz before you can...."  Once the quiz is passed, the link is no longer dimmed.  See this thread:  http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=11811 to find out more.

Chardelle

Here is indonesian translation

Hello Everyone,

just some code that might be usefull. it adds 3 lines creating a border around the page. attached is a jpeg of the pdf i have ceated for our statement of attainments.

If you are viewing your certificate landscape

$pdf = new Cezpdf('a4','landscape');

$pdf->setStrokeColor('0','0','0.5'); /* this is in RGB colour mode and values can only be between 0 -> 1 */
$pdf->setLineStyle(1); /* (1) is the thickness of the line if you change this you will need to change the size of the other rectangles */
$pdf->rectangle(25,25,791.89,545.28);
$pdf->setLineStyle(2);
$pdf->rectangle(27.5,27.5,786.89,540.28);
$pdf->setLineStyle(1);
$pdf->rectangle(30,30,781.89,535.28);

If you are viewing your certificate portrait

$pdf = new Cezpdf('a4','portrait');

$pdf->setStrokeColor('0.51','0','0.5'); /* this is in RGB colour mode and values can only be between 0 -> 1 */
$pdf->setLineStyle(1); /* (1) is the thickness of the line if you change this you will need to change the size of the other rectangles */
$pdf->rectangle(25,25,545.28,791.89);
$pdf->setLineStyle(2);
$pdf->rectangle(27.5,27.5,540.28,786.89);
$pdf->setLineStyle(1);
$pdf->rectangle(30,30,535.28,781.89);

also Chardelle you cant display gif's at the moment with this class you can only display png's and jpegs - the code for this is posted above

best of luck,
Chris

this module is not available anymore, is there a version for moodle 2.3 ?