Moodle 3.x Developer's Guide

Creating an admin settings page

Let us start by creating a new instance of the admin_settingpage class. We will call this new instance $settings. Add the following code to the if ($hassiteconfig) clause:

$settings = new admin_settingpage('local_duallang', get_string('local_duallang', 'local_duallang')); 

We should note at this stage that I am not intending to delve too deeply into function parameters as they are very well described in Moodle's source code. For example, in Eclipse highlight the text admin_settingpage, right-click with the mouse, and from the pop-up context menu, click on Open Declaration. Eclipse navigates you to the class constructor--which is preceded by a detailed DocBlock:

/** * see admin_settingpage for details of this ...