Feature: Course Manager List

[sennewood]

In our old 2.7 custom theme we created a section to show some roles which people are managing a specific course section:

Here is our 2.7 code of _../ourtheme/renderers/courserenderer.php:

        $user_string = "";
        $list_container = [];
        $list_con_counter = 0;
        $chelper = new coursecat_helper();
        $set_flag = FALSE;
        $userroles = Array();
        if ($category != null || $category != 0) {
            $coursecontext = context_coursecat::instance($category); //aktueller context
            if (has_capability('moodle/course:create', $coursecontext)) {
                $category_information = $DB->get_records('course_categories', array('id' => $category)); //informationen aus dem aktuellen context
                  if ($category_information[$category]->parent != 0) {
                    $userroles_current = $DB->get_records('role_assignments', array('contextid' => $coursecontext->id));
                    if (empty($userroles_current) != true){ array_push($userroles, $userroles_current); }
                    $_category = $category;
                    do {
                        $course_context_parent = context_coursecat::instance($category_information[$_category]->parent);
                        $userroles_parent = $DB->get_records('role_assignments', array('contextid' => $course_context_parent->id));
                        if (empty($userroles_parent) != true) { array_push($userroles, $userroles_parent); }
                        $_category = $category_information[$_category]->parent;
                        $category_information = $DB->get_records('course_categories', array('id' => $_category));
                    } while ($category_information[$_category]->parent != 0);
                    if ($userroles != NULL) {
                        $set_flag = TRUE;
                        $user_string .= "<div class='cate_info_wrapper'><h2>Kursverwalter/-innen:</h2><div class='cate_info_content'><ul>";
                            foreach ($userroles as $user1) {
                                foreach ($user1 as $user) {
                                $user_query = $DB->get_record('user', array('id'=> $user->userid));
                                $user_string .= '<li>' . get_string('name') . ': '. $user_query->firstname . ' '. $user_query->lastname . ' -- '. get_string('username') . 
                                ': ' . $user_query->username . ' -- '. get_string('email') . ": <a href='mailto:" . $user_query->email . "'>" . $user_query->email . '</a></li>';
                                }
                            }
                        $user_string .= "</ul></div></div>";
                     }
                }
                else {
                    $userroles = $DB->get_records('role_assignments', array('contextid' => $coursecontext->id));
                    if ($userroles != NULL) {
                        $set_flag = TRUE;
                        $user_string .= "<div class='cate_info_wrapper'><h2>Kursverwalter/-innen:</h2><div class='cate_info_content'><ul>";

                        foreach ($userroles as $user) {
                            $user_query = $DB->get_record('user', array('id'=> $user->userid));
                            $user_string .= '<li>' . get_string('name') . ': '. $user_query->firstname . ' '. $user_query->lastname . ' -- '. get_string('username') . 
                                ': ' . $user_query->username . ' -- '. get_string('email') . ": <a href='mailto:" . $user_query->email . "'>" . $user_query->email . '</a></li>';
                        }
                        $user_string .= "</ul></div></div>";
                    }
               }
           }
           if ($chelper->get_category_formatted_description($coursecat)) {
               $description = $chelper->get_category_formatted_description($coursecat);
               if ($set_flag == TRUE) {
                   $description .= $user_string;
               }
               $output .= $this->box($description, array('class' => 'generalbox info '));
            }
            else {
                if ($set_flag == TRUE) {
                    $description = $chelper->get_category_formatted_description($coursecat);
                    $description .= $user_string;
                    $output .= $this->box($description, array('class' => 'generalbox info '));
                }

            }
        }

(I didn't wrote this code, don't blame me for hard coded strings ^^)

I now try to port this code into 3.3 and boost, but if you have any ideas to improve this feature, please write a comment.

[Kathrin84]

Hi Sebastian, do you mean the list of "Dozent/innen" with this issue? I'm not quite sure, because you wrote course section. Sections created within the course. But I assume that you mean whole courses.

I don't think that this is a Boost Campus related issue, but I can point you to our block "People": https://moodle.org/plugins/block_people Maybe this could be a solution for your Moodle instance, too? So you don't have to change the code on the course page. Best, Kathrin

[Kathrin84]

As there was no reply for half a year now I'll close this issue. Nevertheless, feel free to add further information though if you have any.

[sennewood]

I wrote a plugin for our issue instead: https://github.com/buwzim/moodle-category-manager ;)