Moodle Plugins directory: Moodle plugin skeleton generator: Comments

Friday, 31 October 2025, 12:12 AM - Paul R

Thu, 30 Oct 2025 16:12:25 GMT

by Paul R.

This fails even if the code is not altered at all.

Thursday, 9 February 2023, 7:46 AM - David Mudrák

Wed, 08 Feb 2023 23:46:59 GMT

by David Mudrák.

Version 1.6.0 was just released, introducing support for course formats and tinymce subplugins.

Friday, 11 October 2019, 6:45 PM - David Mudrák

Fri, 11 Oct 2019 10:45:13 GMT

by David Mudrák.

For the record, the most recent version 1.2.3 has (among other things) the support for generating a minimal db/install.xml implemented. Thanks again Steve for raising it.

Friday, 26 April 2019, 4:49 PM - David Mudrák

Fri, 26 Apr 2019 08:49:35 GMT

by David Mudrák.

Hi Steve. IIRC that is expected behaviour as the XMLDB editor is more appropriate tool to create this file. What I used to do was (1) generate the module's skeleton inside a Moodle installation (2) go directly to the site's /admin/tool/xmldb/ address (that is the annoying part where you have to avoid visiting the Notifications page that would trigger the plugin installation) and (3) create the module's install.xml using the XMLDB and (4) finally install the plugin.

I agree this is rather cumbersome workflow. Please feel encouraged to report a new feature request so that plugins come with a bare-minimal working install.xml out of the box.

Thursday, 25 April 2019, 6:09 PM - steve baxter

Thu, 25 Apr 2019 10:09:40 GMT

by steve baxter.

I'm probably missing something really obvious here but my generated mod skeleton does not have an install.xml file so has no means to create initial tables. Many thanks in advance.

Friday, 1 June 2018, 10:14 PM - David Mudrák

Fri, 01 Jun 2018 14:14:19 GMT

by David Mudrák.

Version 1.1.0 released, allowing to generate privacy API scaffolding. No UI at the moment, manually edited input YAML recipes only. Refer to cli/example.yaml.

Tuesday, 25 April 2017, 11:00 PM - David Mudrák

Tue, 25 Apr 2017 15:00:51 GMT

by David Mudrák.

I believe it just needs to be updated. A pull request at github will be appreciated, or an issue created there at least. Thanks in advance.

Tuesday, 25 April 2017, 10:03 PM - Mike Churchward

Tue, 25 Apr 2017 14:03:37 GMT

by Mike Churchward.

It currently doesn't allow you to use 3.2 as the required Moodle version (dropdown). Does that mean we should not use it for 3.2 (or higher) plugin development?