Preface

Moodle has evolved into one of the most widely-used Learning Management Systems in the world, with over 35,000 installed sites and 25 million users. Much of its popularity is due to its ability to be extended by developers, by using its open source architecture. Understanding how to develop on the Moodle platform provides an organization using Moodle the flexibility to expand its functions.

This book will teach you the inner workings of Moodle, and provide you with the ability to develop code the "Moodle way". You will learn to develop standard Moodle plugins, such as activities and blocks, by creating functioning code that you can execute in your own Moodle installation.

This book will expose you to all of the core code functions in Moodle in a progressive, understandable way. You will learn what libraries are available, what the API calls are, how Moodle is structured, and how it can be expanded beyond the plugin system.