Moodle 3.x Developer's Guide

Extracting the data

The code to determine the number of times a user has interacted with a resource or activity, we will take from the Heatmap block plugin by Michael de Raadt (visit https://moodle.org/plugins/pluginversions.php?plugin=block_heatmap for details). We will create a new script called /locallib.php and add a new function to return the number of interactions with each resource or activity.

This code can be taken from the Heatmap block code:

Let's work through this function step by step to see how it operates. The function is passed the ID number of the course for which we need user interaction data:

 function course_report_get_views($courseid) ...