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Moodle JavaScript Cookbook

Moodle JavaScript Cookbook

By : Alastair Hole
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Moodle JavaScript Cookbook

Moodle JavaScript Cookbook

4.7 (3)
By: Alastair Hole

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)
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Moodle JavaScript Cookbook
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About the Author
About the Reviewers
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Preface

Introduction


In this chapter, we will look at the ways we can use JavaScript and YUI to retrieve and display data from a range of different sources. Using these techniques, we can integrate all types of data into our Moodle applications. This list includes weather forecasts, stock updates, news feeds, any type of custom text-based data you may have from external systems, and even data from Moodle itself (both the local Moodle system and any remote systems that your code is authorized to access), retrieved via Moodle's web services API.

Moodle 2.0 includes version 3 of the Yahoo! User Interface Library (YUI 3). YUI 3 has a rich data processing API which we will look at in this chapter. We will cover how to make a simple HTTP GET request to retrieve the contents of a file using the IO module, moving on to more complex scenarios such as retrieving data from an external domain, parsing a range of data formats, and the consumption of XML-based web services.

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