Developer Area/API

 

Overview

Finding your way around

Dev setup

Dev tools

Contributing

Testing

Keep in touch	API Docs	Architecture	Release Instructions	Plugins

API Documentation

Localisation

• Language strings
• Developer_Area/Local customizations
  • aka the "/local" directory

How to set / access certain information

• Config API
• Retrieving user input
  • aka "What to use instead of $_GET and $_POST"
• Cron API
• CLI Framework for writing command-line Mahara scripts
• Events API
• File uploads API
• Login form
• Mahara global variables
  • $SESSION, $USER, $THEME, etc
• Mahara Mobile
• Notification Plugins & Activities
• Pagetop Constants
• Pieforms
• Sideblocks API
• Site menus
• Smarty&Dwoo
• Custom user roles

Making a custom theme

• Themes

Accessing webservice API

• Webservices
  • you can also go to the 'webservice/wsdoc.php' page in your local Mahara instance to see what Webservice APIs are available