User favourites / favorite / bookmark

Blocks ::: block_user_favorites

Maintained by

Luuk Verhoeven,

Gemma Lesterhuis

Marking Moodle pages as user favourites.

Latest release: 8 hafta

484 sites

179 downloads

36 fans

Current versions available: 3

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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 favorite.

Special thanks to Gemma Lesterhuis (Lesterhuis Training & Consultancy) for develop & design, useful input, bug reports and beta testing

Author: Luuk Verhoeven, ldesignmedia.nl
Author: Gemma Lesterhuis, Lesterhuis Training & Consultancy
Min. required: Moodle 3.5.x
Supports PHP: 7.0 | 7.1 | 7.2 | 7.4 | 8.0 | 8.1

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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.
*new 2023* Sorting bookmarks

Installation

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

Security

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

License

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

Bug fixes, support and new features

This plugin is being supported by customers of LT&C. In order to keep the plugin update we relay on these contributies.

If you are seeking support, bug fixes or want to add new features, please contact sales@ltnc.nl for more information.

If you are seeking 'free' support, please use the Moodle.org Blocks forum to seek support from the Moodle LMS community.

Contributing

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

Thanks for the inspiration block_user_bookmarks

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Contributors

Luuk Verhoeven (Lead maintainer)

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Gemma Lesterhuis

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Plugins bot
Paz, 28 Eki 2018, 10:50 Öğleden Sonra
Approval issue created: CONTRIB-7495
Ken Farrimond
Cmt, 2 Şub 2019, 9:50 Öğleden önce
Hi Luuk
This looks a great plugin. I am wanting to connect it with some custom sql - where exactly does a user's favourite list get stored?
thanks
Ken
Luuk Verhoeven
Cmt, 2 Şub 2019, 4:59 Öğleden Sonra
Hi Ken,
This information is stored in `mdl_user_preferences` with the name "user_favorites" the data is a serialized array.
Cheers, Luuk
Ken Farrimond
Cmt, 2 Şub 2019, 9:59 Öğleden Sonra
Many thanks, I had looked in numerous places, but not there.

Ken
Dnyaneshwar Somwanshi
Sal, 8 Eki 2019, 1:36 Öğleden Sonra
gr8 plugin. do you have plan to add mobile support to this feature? thanks. thanks.
Luuk Verhoeven
Cmt, 12 Eki 2019, 6:49 Öğleden Sonra
Hi Dnyaneshwar, there are no plans for now to build mobile support.
You can add this request to GitHub issue tracker https://github.com/MFreakNL/moodle-block-user_favorites/issues

Greets, Luuk
Carlos Kiyan Tsunami
Çar, 8 Oca 2020, 9:10 Öğleden Sonra
hello, can you add this block to all the pages of your moodle site. Do I have to manually enable on each course?
Luuk Verhoeven
Cmt, 11 Oca 2020, 10:11 Öğleden Sonra
Hi Carlos,

Yes, you should add it manual to each course. It's a normal block instance.

You can make it a default course block see this comment:
https://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=363912#p1467851
Richard Newton
Cmt, 3 Eki 2020, 12:13 Öğleden önce
Do you know if there's a way to add that functionality of the button to a link? I'd really like to have this functionality in the footer.
Fabian Busse
Çar, 2 Ara 2020, 4:03 Öğleden önce
Hey, is it possible to add/ integrate this plugin/block in the moodle mobile app? If yes, how can I do it?
Gemma Lesterhuis
Çar, 2 Ara 2020, 5:58 Öğleden Sonra
@richard could you explain a little bit more what goal you want to achive with the block? I am not sure if I understand you correctly.

@Fabian the block is not ready for the Moodle Mobile App, I am actually not sure if it would really work properly. You are always free to make changes to the block and push it back to the community. You could find more information on how to make it work on the Moodle website, by example: https://docs.moodle.org/dev/Mobile_support_for_plugins
Wynand Louw
Sal, 9 Ağu 2022, 7:32 Öğleden Sonra
Moodle 4, PHP8

Debug info:
Error code: generalexceptionmessage
Stack trace:

line 81 of /blocks/user_bookmarks/block_user_bookmarks.php: Error thrown
line 478 of /blocks/moodleblock.class.php: call to block_user_bookmarks->specialization()
line 2091 of /lib/blocklib.php: call to block_base->_load_instance()
line 1097 of /lib/blocklib.php: call to block_instance()
line 1258 of /lib/blocklib.php: call to block_manager->create_block_instances()
line 1145 of /lib/blocklib.php: call to block_manager->ensure_instances_exist()
line 1649 of /lib/pagelib.php: call to block_manager->create_all_block_instances()
line 1110 of /lib/pagelib.php: call to moodle_page->starting_output()
line 1391 of /lib/outputrenderers.php: call to moodle_page->set_state()
line 121 of /index.php: call to core_renderer->header()

I have removed the User Bookmarks block from all tabs and now it is fine. It seems that this is the problem creating the error.
Gemma Lesterhuis
Çar, 10 Ağu 2022, 10:19 Öğleden Sonra
@wynand thank you for reporting this. The plugin has not been tested by us on PHP8 which just been recently supported by Moodle LMS. At the moment I am not sure if we will take this step ór just wait for Moodle 4.1 to arrive. But be free to put in a pull request to solve this error on our Github:https://github.com/Lesterhuis-Training-en-Consultancy/moodle-block-user_favorites/issues
Wynand Louw
Çar, 21 Ara 2022, 10:32 Öğleden Sonra
@Gemma thanks. Will wait for the update for 4.1 and then reactivate on my site.
Wynand Louw
Pzt, 1 May 2023, 4:08 Öğleden önce
2023032200 Works as expected. Thanks, @gemma.