User favourites / favorite / bookmark

Blocks ::: block_user_favorites
Maintained by Luuk VerhoevenLuuk Verhoeven, Gemma Lesterhuis
Marking Moodle pages as user favourites.

User favourites / favorite / bookmark 3.5.2

Moodle 3.4, 3.5, 3.6, 3.7
Released: astelehena, 2019(e)ko ekainakren 10(e)an, 18:55(e)tan

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Moodle block for marking your favourite pages as bookmarks

In brief, the MFreak block user_favorites gives the user a method to mark pages as favourite.

MFreak.nl

  • Author: Luuk Verhoeven, MFreak.nl
  • Min. required: Moodle 3.5.x
  • Supports PHP: 7.0 | 7.1 | 7.2

Build Status Moodle35 PHP7.0

Screens

Adding

List of features

  • Using external AJAX requests for saving and loading user favourites.
  • Using mustache templates.
  • Fast and easy to work with.
  • Marks current page in favorites if exists.

Installation

  1. Copy this plugin to the blocks\user_favorites folder on the server
  2. Login as administrator
  3. Go to Site Administrator > Notification
  4. Install the plugin

Known issues

We are using the user_preferences DB table for storing user favourites. The max length stored here is a varchar 1333. Because of this, the plugin has a limit in how many favourites a user can store.

Workaround for this

ALTER TABLE `mdl_user_preferences` 
MODIFY COLUMN `value` text CHARACTER SET utf8mb4 COLLATE utf8mb4_unicode_ci NOT NULL DEFAULT '' AFTER `name`

Tracker issue 3

Security

If you discover any security related issues, please email luuk@MFreak.nl instead of using the issue tracker.

License

The GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE. Please see License File for more information.

Contributing

Contributions are welcome and will be fully credited. We accept contributions via Pull Requests on Github.

Changelog

See version control for the complete history. Major changes in this version will be listed below.

Version information

Version build number
2019061000
Version release name
3.5.2
Can be updated to
3.9 (2020050600)
Maturity
Beta
MD5 Sum
2f3f2eadd9ff42a213686c515a4c95db
Supported software
PHP 7.0, PHP 7.1, Moodle 3.4, PHP 7.2, Moodle 3.5, Moodle 3.6, Moodle 3.7

Version control information

Version control system (VCS)
GIT
VCS repository URL

Default installation instructions for plugins of the type Blocks

  1. Make sure you have all the required versions.
  2. Download and unpack the block folder.
  3. Place the folder (eg "myblock") in the "blocks" subdirectory.
  4. Visit http://yoursite.com/admin to complete the installation
  5. Turn editing on in any home or course page.
  6. Add the block to the page
  7. Visit the config link in the block for more options.