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Moodle JavaScript Cookbook

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Moodle JavaScript Cookbook

Overview of this book

Moodle is the best e-learning solution on the block and is revolutionizing courses on the Web. Using JavaScript in Moodle is very useful to administrators and dynamic developers as it uses built-in libraries to provide the modern and dynamic experience that is expected by web users today.The Moodle JavaScript Cookbook will take you through the basics of combining Moodle with JavaScript and its various libraries and explain how JavaScript can be used along with Moodle. It will explain how to integrate Yahoo! User Interface Library (YUI) with Moodle. YUI will be the main focus of the book, and is the key to implementing modern, dynamic feature-rich interfaces to help your users get a more satisfying and productive Moodle experience. It will enable you to add effects, make forms more responsive, use AJAX and animation, all to create a richer user experience. You will be able to work through a range of YUI features, such as pulling in and displaying information from other websites, enhancing existing UI elements to make users' lives easier, and even how to add animation to your pages for a nice finishing touch.
Table of Contents (15 chapters)
Moodle JavaScript Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface

Adding the MooTools framework


In this recipe, we will set up the MooTools framework for use in our example page.

The following is a quick overview of the framework from the MooTools website (http://mootools.net/):

MooTools is a compact, modular, Object-Oriented JavaScript framework designed for the intermediate to advanced JavaScript developer. It allows you to write powerful, flexible, and cross-browser code with its elegant, well documented, and coherent API.

MooTools is essentially another alternative to YUI or jQuery. You may want to install this framework if you wish to make use of some third party code based on MooTools, which is either not possible or impractical to port to native JavaScript. You can also rewrite it using Moodle's preferred JavaScript framework, YUI.

We will create a simple MooTools script which will display a JavaScript alert when the domready event is fired.

Getting ready

We begin by downloading the latest version of the MooTools framework. Visit the MooTools homepage...