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Moodle 3.x Developer's Guide
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Moodle 3.x Developer's Guide

by Ian Wild, Jaswant Tak
June 2017
Beginner to intermediate
368 pages
8h 31m
English
Packt Publishing
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Our first plugin - a custom string manager

As described earlier, we will be working together to develop plugins for a new global Moodle-based learning management system in this book. For the rest of this chapter, we will be working through the development of a simple plugin, one that modifies the way language strings are displayed on the user interface. Note that the intention isn't to demonstrate the finer details of how to write a Moodle plugin; that is the purpose of the rest of the book. The rest of this chapter is written to outline the kind of thought processes that one would engage in when being tasked with developing a new feature in Moodle. So, let's begin with finding out what the task that we have been set is.

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