Make sure admins know things can go wrong, MSSQL and Oracle were never working, fix block_html config saving issue, skip a lot more tables because the data there is serialised() or can not be changed in case of config tables, more warnings and checkbox confirmation.
Major tasks undertaken in this patch:
* New format_text argument, overflowdiv.
* New page layout Report.
* Review of all format_text calls.
* Added support for the report layout to all themes.
* Changed forum post display from tables to divs.
From now on, all English strings use the new syntax. They are not
eval()'ed any more and the only valid placeholders are {$a} and
{$a->foobar}. No extra quotes escaping, dollar sign escaping and putting
double percent signs.
The modified files were exported from AMOS database repository in the
new syntax and were re-ordered by stringid. Standard GNU/GPL and PHPdoc
blocks are added. Where there was no copyright note so far, I added the
default one with Martin Dougiamas as the copyright holder.
Live long and prosper.
This mostly works now, but ...
* The UI needs further work. In particular we need a non-advanced mode.
* This only works for blocks that use a new edit_form.php to replace config_instance.html.
* .. and so far I have only implemented edit_form.php for the HTML block so far.
* Needs to be enabled (with no block-specific config) for blocks without instance config, so you can control their positioning.
even non-course and sticky blocks.
The parent context is block_instances.parentcontextid.
The block context should be used for checking permissions directly
related to the block, like moodle/block:view or moodle/site:manageblocks.
However, if the block is displaying information about the current page,
for example the participants block showing who 'here', then it may be
better to use the context of the page where the bloack is appearing -
in other words $this->page->context - to check permissions about the
user's ability to see participants here.
Or, if the block is displaying something stronly related to courses,
for example, a course meny block, the block should probably use the
context for $this->page->course to check permissions.
Rajesh Taneja