User:Aaronw

Hi, I'm Aaron Wells. I've been a full-time web developer since 2004, working mostly in PHP, Java, and PL/SQL (crazy, huh?). I've been at Catalyst IT since 2010, working on Moodle and Totara. I joined our Mahara team as lead developer in early 2013.

Rewriting Mahara dev documentation

The Mahara wiki's developer documentation is kind of a mess. Eventually I want to clean it up and flesh it out. For now, I'm going to create pages here, under my wiki page, and when I have time perhaps I can incorporate them into a new cleanup.

API documentation

• User:Aaronw/Language strings
• User:Aaronw/Retrieving user input
  • aka "What to use instead of $_GET and $_POST"
• User:Aaronw/Sideblocks API
• User:Aaronw/Events API
• User:Aaronw/Login form
• User:Aaronw/Site menus
• User:Aaronw/Cron API
• User:Aaronw/Pieforms
• User:Aaronw/Database-DML
• User:Aaronw/Database-DDL
  • I wrote a forum post here that gives an outline of how the database works: https://mahara.org/interaction/forum/topic.php?id=5515&offset=0&limit=10#post23753
• User:Aaronw/Smarty&Dwoo
• User:Aaronw/File uploads API
• User:Aaronw/Config API
• User:Aaronw/Hello World
  • https://mahara.org/interaction/forum/topic.php?id=5515&offset=0&limit=10#post23705
  • My sample page with pieforms and dwoo: https://wiki.mahara.org/index.php/BasicPHPFileTemplates#Sample_page_using_pieforms_and_dwoo
• User:Aaronw/Mahara global variables
  • $SESSION, $USER, $THEME, etc
• User:Aaronw/Mahara pagetop constants

Other dev docs

• User:Aaronw/Code review guidelines