Moodle Sandbox and Developer Tips & Tricks

About this site

My sandbox for Moodle development and testing plugins

Also a blog for tips and tricks

My Contributed Plugins

profilefield_url

A simple user profile field that allows the entry of a url with a custom label

https://moodle.org/plugins/profilefield_url

About me

Been a programmer since the ZX81 (released in 1981 funnily enough)

Spent many years as a Clipper developer

Then fell into Moodle / Totara development in 2011

Still, incredibly, the number 1 answerer for Moodle on Stackoverflow

https://stackoverflow.com/tags/moodle/topusers

My recent contributions to Moodle Tracker (need an account to view)

https://moodle.atlassian.net/jira/people/712020:72cef16e-6f6a-42b5-bc3d-cad527999730/work

Learn to Moodle

Moodle was developed way before MVC, so development is different to PHP frameworks such as Laravel.

If you are new to Moodle development, have a read through the comprehensive Developer Guides.

I would also suggest taking the free developer programs at the Moodle Academy.

Doesn't hurt to take the courses, even for experienced developers. Here are my certificates:

Moodle Developer Basics Certificate

Moodle Developer Skills Certificate