Credit: original version done by Kirill Astashov of NetSpot (netspot.com.au),
finished and tweaked by sam.
This change adds conditional availability support for sections analagous to
that already available for activities. (Backend, UI, backup/restore.)
In order that this feature does not reduce performance, section cacheing has
also been added using a new course 'sectioncache' field analagous to modinfo.
The new feature integrates with activity availability so that activities
inside sections which are not available are automatically not available
themselves (meaning it works to restrict access).
Change also adds minor feature to date-time selector so you can specify the time it uses as default when the value is 0 (disabled).
Credit: This feature was developed collaboratively by Charles Fulton, Neill Magill, and me.
Even though I've tweaked this and done some polishing, there is still plenty to do on it now in HEAD, mostly to do with UI, usability and strings, so we'll keep working on it. Aaron already has a number of improvements to add to it.
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.
sam marshall