Moodle plugin skeleton generator

Administration tool ::: tool_pluginskel
Maintained by David Mudrák
Allows developers to quickly generate code skeleton for a new Moodle plugin.

Moodle plugin skeleton generator 1.5.2

Moodle 3.9, 3.10, 3.11
Released: Monday, 14 June 2021, 8:46 PM

1.5.2

  • Single class (instance, trait) files do not need file-level phpDocs block even if they have side-effect and load other libraries manually.
  • Monolog logger update to the latest version 2.2 as we now require Moodle 3.9 so PHP is always 7.2 or higher.
  • Plugin types in the wizard form selector are now alphabetically ordered - credit goes to Daniel Neis Araujo and Jonathan Champ.
  • Added tests for Moodle 3.11 and ability to set 3.11 as required Moodle version.
  • Fixed coding style issues detected by phpcs in the plugin as well as in the generated code.

1.5.1

  • New recipe section templates allowing to generate mustache templates.
  • Fixed standard boilerplate of all custom skeleton templates and re-enabled CI prechecks for them.

1.5.0

  • New recipe section external can be used to describe external functions provided by the plugin.
  • New recipe section services can be used to describe pre-built web services provided by the plugin.
  • The --recipe argument has been deprecated. The path to the recipe file should be newly provided via positional argument of the generate.php script.
  • CLI generator script now also supports relative paths to files as arguments.
  • New --list-files argument allows to display list of to-be generated files.
  • New --file argument allows to display the contents of given generated file.
  • New --decode argument allows to display decoded structure of given YAML file.
  • Added ability to generate single declaration files that have no side effects.
  • Travis-CI prechecks were replaced with Github Actions.
  • Github Actions are also used to precheck generated skeletons, not only the tool itself. Various detected coding style issues were fixed in both places.
  • Generated README files now contain information about how and where the generated plugin should be installed to. Credit goes to Jan Dageförde.
  • Generated install.xml files fixed to contain EOL at EOF. This reflects the upstream fix MDL-70931.
  • Spyc library replaced with Symfony Yaml component for recipe files parsing.

1.4.0

  • Fixed deprecation warnings in unit tests under Moodle 3.10. Credit goes to @ewallah.
  • Fixed tests syntax to be compatible with PHPUnit 8.5.
  • Added support for generating version.php code requiring Moodle 3.10.

1.3.0

  • Added support for generating contenttype plugin templates. Credit goes to Ferran Recio (@ferranrecio).
  • Moodle versions 3.8 and 3.9 can be selected as required versions.
  • URLs in boilerplates use the HTTPS protocol explicitly.
  • Fixed typos and errors. Credit goes to @kritisingh1.

1.2.3

  • Fixed generating skeletons for activity modules. Credit goes to Leo Auri (@leoauri) for the fix.
  • Fixed travis-ci configuration. Credit goes to Jonathan Champ (@jrchamp).
  • Added support for generating minimal db/install.xml files for activity modules.

1.2.2

  • Added support for generating version.php code requiring Moodle 3.7

1.2.1

  • Fixed bug - auth plugins not setting the authtype property. Credit goes to Geoffrey Van Wyk (@systemovich) for the report and the fix suggestion.
  • Fixed bug #90 - the name of the XMLDB upgrade function for activity modules.
  • Added support for generating version.php code requiring Moodle 3.6.

1.2.0

  • Privacy API implemented. The plugin does not store any personal data.
  • Fixed bug #87 - invalid language file name for activity modules.

1.1.1

  • Fixed a bug leading to generating the provider.php file with a syntax error in some cases.

1.1.0

  • Added support to generate privacy API related code (refer to cli/example.yaml). Special thanks to Michael Hughes for the initial implementation.
  • Improved the component type and name fields usability - autodisplay the plugin type prefix so that it is more intuitive what the name field should hold.
  • Added support to generate plugins requiring Moodle 3.4 and 3.5
  • Make mustache loader path configurable, allowing better integration with moosh. Credit goes to Tomasz Muras.

1.0.0

  • Added support to generate plugins requiring Moodle 3.3 and 3.2.
  • Added support for setting default values of some recipe file form fields
  • Fixed the risk of having the generated ZIP file corrupted with debugging data
  • Fixed some formal coding style violations

0.9.0

  • Initial version submitted to the Moodle plugins directory as a result of GSOC 2016

Version information

Version build number
2021061400
Version release name
1.5.2
Maturity
Stable version
MD5 Sum
0f41509e3c5b2571714e2e83413c6820
Supported software
Moodle 3.9, Moodle 3.10, Moodle 3.11

Version control information

Version control system (VCS)
GIT
VCS repository URL
VCS tag
1.5.2

Default installation instructions for plugins of the type Administration tool

  1. Make sure you have all the required versions.
  2. Download and unpack the module.
  3. Place the folder (eg "mytool") in the "admin/tool" subdirectory.
  4. Visit http://yoursite.com/admin to finish the installation