From 388f8911e3e6f259bf6b3ac924ae5c369af7cf36 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: martin <martin>
Date: Mon, 29 Jul 2002 13:10:25 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Can now specify course by "short name" using name parameter. 
 Useful for integrating with external interfaces.  Thanks to dopey for the
 idea.

---
 course/view.php | 20 ++++++++++++++++----
 1 file changed, 16 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/course/view.php b/course/view.php
index 47380fadfa7..3e709553122 100644
--- a/course/view.php
+++ b/course/view.php
@@ -5,13 +5,25 @@
     require("../config.php");
     require("lib.php");
 
+    optional_variable($id);
+    optional_variable($name);
+
+    if (!$id and !$name) {
+        error("Must specify course id or short name");
+    }
+
+    if ($name) {
+        if (! $course = get_record("course", "shortname", $name) ) {
+            error("That's an invalid short course name");
+        }
+    } else {
+        if (! $course = get_record("course", "id", $id) ) {
+            error("That's an invalid course id");
+        }
+    }
 
     require_login($id);
 
-    if (! $course = get_record("course", "id", $id) ) {
-        error("That's an invalid course id");
-    }
-
     add_to_log($course->id, "course", "view", "view.php?id=$course->id", "$course->id");
 
     if ( isteacher($course->id) ) {