CoreForum Class Reference

Inheritance diagram for CoreForum:

Public Member Functions
	getTabNavigation ($course_id)
	getIconNavigation ($course_id, $last_visit, $user_id=null)
	getInfoTemplate ($course_id)
	getLinkToThread ($issue_id)
	setThreadForIssue ($issue_id, $title, $content)
	getNumberOfPostingsForUser ($user_id, $seminar_id=null)
	getNumberOfPostingsForIssue ($issue_id)
	getNumberOfPostingsForSeminar ($seminar_id)
	getNumberOfPostings ()
	getEntryTableInfo ()
	getTopTenSeminars ()
	migrateUser ($user_from, $user_to)
	deleteContents ($seminar_id)
	getDump ($seminar_id)
	getMetadata ()
Public Member Functions inherited from CorePlugin
	__construct ()
	getPluginId ()
	isEnabled ()
	getPluginName ()
	getPluginURL ()
	getPluginVersion ()
	getPluginDescription ()
	getDescriptionMode ()
	isHighlighted ()
	getHighlightText ()
	isCorePlugin ()
	isActivated ($context=null)
	isActivatableForContext (Range $context)
Public Member Functions inherited from ForumModule
	getNumberOfPostingsForUser ($user_id)

Static Public Member Functions
static	overviewDidClear ($notification, $user_id)
static	removeAbosForUserAndCourse ($notification, $course_id, $user_id)
static	getDescription ()
Static Public Member Functions inherited from CorePlugin
static	onEnable ($plugin_id)
static	onDisable ($plugin_id)
static	onActivation ($plugin_id, $range_id)
static	onDeactivation ($plugin_id, $range_id)
static	checkActivation ($range_id)

Additional Inherited Members
Protected Attributes inherited from CorePlugin
	$plugin_info

Member Function Documentation

deleteContents()

deleteContents

(

$seminar_id

)

Clean up everything for the passed seminar, because the seminar is beeing deleted.

Parameters

string

$seminar_id

Implements ForumModule.

getDescription()

static getDescription ( )

static

getDump()

getDump

(

$seminar_id

)

Return a complete HTML-Dump of all entries in the forum-module. This is used for archiving purposes, so make it pretty!

Parameters

string

$seminar_id

Returns

string a single-page HTML-view of all contents in one string

Implements ForumModule.

getEntryTableInfo()

getEntryTableInfo

(

)

This function is called whenever Stud.IP needs to directly operate on your entries-table. Your entries-table MUST have at least fields for a date (a change-date is preferred, but make-date will suffice), posting-content, seminar_id and user_id.

The returning array must have the following structure: Array ( 'table' => 'your_entry_table, 'content' => 'your_content_field', 'chdate' => 'your_date_field', 'seminar_id' => 'your_seminar_id_field', 'user_id' => 'your_user_id_field' )

Returns

array

Implements ForumModule.

getIconNavigation()

getIconNavigation	(		$course_id,
			$last_visit,
			$user_id = null
	)

Return a navigation object representing this plugin in the course overview table or return NULL if you want to display no icon for this plugin (or course). The navigation object's title will not be shown, only the image (and its associated attributes like 'title') and the URL are actually used.

By convention, new or changed plugin content is indicated by a different icon and a corresponding tooltip.

Parameters

string	$course_id	course or institute range id
int	$last_visit	time of user's last visit
string	$user_id	the user to get the navigation for

Returns

object navigation item to render or NULL

Implements StudipModule.

getInfoTemplate()

getInfoTemplate

(

$course_id

)

Return a template (an instance of the Flexi_Template class) to be rendered on the course summary page. Return NULL to render nothing for this plugin.

The template will automatically get a standard layout, which can be configured via attributes set on the template:

title title to display, defaults to plugin name icon_url icon for this plugin (if any) admin_url admin link for this plugin (if any) admin_title title for admin link (default: Administration)

Returns

object template object to render or NULL

Implements StudipModule.

getLinkToThread()

getLinkToThread

(

$issue_id

)

Issues can be connected with an entry in a forum. This method has to return an url to the connected topic for the passed issue_id. If no topic is connected, it has to return "false"

Parameters

string

$issue_id

Returns

mixed URL or false

Implements ForumModule.

getMetadata()

getMetadata

(

)

{Provides metadata like a descriptional text for this module that is shown on the course "+" page to inform users about what the module acutally does. Additionally, a URL can be specified.

Returns

array metadata containg description and/or url

}

Implements StudipModule.

getNumberOfPostings()

getNumberOfPostings

(

)

Return the number of all postings served by your module. The results are used for statistics.

Returns

int

Implements ForumModule.

getNumberOfPostingsForIssue()

getNumberOfPostingsForIssue

(

$issue_id

)

Return the number of postings the connected topic contains for the issue with the passed id

Parameters

type

$issue_id

Returns

int

Implements ForumModule.

getNumberOfPostingsForSeminar()

getNumberOfPostingsForSeminar

(

$seminar_id

)

Return the number of postings for the passed seminar

Parameters

type

$seminar_id

Returns

int

Implements ForumModule.

getNumberOfPostingsForUser()

getNumberOfPostingsForUser	(		$user_id,
			$seminar_id = null
	)

getTabNavigation()

getTabNavigation

(

$course_id

)

Return a navigation object representing this plugin in the course overview table or return NULL if you want to display no icon for this plugin (or course). The navigation object's title will not be shown, only the image (and its associated attributes like 'title') and the URL are actually used.

By convention, new or changed plugin content is indicated by a different icon and a corresponding tooltip.

Parameters

string

$course_id

course or institute range id

Returns

array navigation item to render or NULL

Implements StudipModule.

getTopTenSeminars()

getTopTenSeminars

(

)

The caller expects an array of the ten seminars with the most postings in your module.

Return an array of the following structure: Array ( Array ( 'seminar_id' => 'display' => 'count' => ) )

Returns

array

Implements ForumModule.

migrateUser()

migrateUser	(		$user_from,
			$user_to
	)

Is called when the data of a user is moved to another user. Update all user_ids with the passed new one.

Parameters

string	$user_from	the user_id of the user who has the data
string	$user_to	the user_id of the user who shall receive the data

Implements ForumModule.

overviewDidClear()

static overviewDidClear (   $notification,   $user_id  )

static

This method is called, whenever an user clicked to clear the visit timestamps and set everything as visited

Parameters

object	$notification
string	$user_id

removeAbosForUserAndCourse()

static removeAbosForUserAndCourse (   $notification,   $course_id,   $user_id  )

static

This method is called whenever a user is removed from a course and thus the forum abos will be removed.

Parameters

object	$notification
string	$course_id
string	$user_id

setThreadForIssue()

setThreadForIssue	(		$issue_id,
			$title,
			$content
	)

This method is called in case of an creation OR an update of an issue. Normally one would update the title and the content of the linked topic when called

Parameters

string	$issue_id
string	$title	the title of the issue
string	$content	the description of the issue

Implements ForumModule.

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The documentation for this class was generated from the following file:

• lib/modules/CoreForum.class.php