Martin Dougiamas

Done.

http://moodle.org/mod/resource/view.php?id=354

or just

http://moodle.org/wiki

Many years ago I used to have a sign up in my office that said "The source code IS the documentation". It was sort of a joke, but also a reminder to embed decent documentation in the source code.

There could be more internal documentation in Moodle, no doubt.

I have a fear that any external documentation will lag the code (since things are still changing) and just cause more confusion. Particularly since there's some big changes in the wind for Moodle 2.

However, I can also see how something like a Wiki could be really useful for building up general descriptions of how things work. I'll install one here for developers and see what you guys want to do with it.

Hi,

If you search these forums for lycos: http://moodle.org/mod/forum/search.php?search=lycos&id=5

You'll find that Lycos has many restrictions that give Moodle problems.

No hard-coded fanaticism here.

1) You need to turn on short_tags in your PHP settings (see Install docs).

2) There's still a lot of SQL you need to translate: see mod/*/db/mssql.sql

3) You should also make accompanying mssql.php files (in lib/db and mod/*/db)

Cheers,
Martin

If you have full access to the files from a Unix shell then you can do lots of nice tricks with Unix symbolic links. Otherwise no.

eg

cd moodledata
mkdir sharedfolder
chmod 777 sharedfolder
cd 2
ln -s ../sharedfolder
cd ../3
ln -s ../sharedfolder

Or, to make one course's files appear in another:

cd moodledata
cd 2
ln -s ../3 othercourse