Conventions

In this book, you will find a number of styles of text that distinguish between different kinds of information. Here are some examples of these styles, and an explanation of their meaning.

Code words in text are shown as follows:

If the cron.php script is invoked over HTTP (either using wget or curl), more memory is used than calling directly via the php f command.

Any command-line input and output is written as follows:

There are two ways you can create a so-called database dump from a MySQL database, either via command line or via Moodle's optional database interface.

The simplest syntax for the command line tool is:

mysqldump -u <user> -p <database> > backup.sql

New terms and important words are introduced in a bold-type font. Words that you see on the screen, in menus or dialog boxes for example, appear in our text like this:

There are two unrelated search settings in Moodle, both of which are still in an experimental stage. You can find them at Miscellaneous | Experimental