After UX research, the conclusion is that all formats should use "section"
and not try to use alternative terms such as topic or week.
This commit replaces topic and week references with section. A couple of
considerations:
- Most of the strings in topics and weeks formats have been removed. In that
particular case it's not required to follow the deprecation process because
they will be using the generic ones defined in moodle or courseformat.
- The sectionname will be renamed from "Topic"/"Week" to "New section" in
MDL-80460.
- Course format may define additional fields (format options) to store for course and each section
- Edit course form allows to edit format-specific options and refreshes their list on format change
- Course format may provide it's own form for editing a section
- Default form for editing section allows to edit all format-specific fields
- Class section_info refactored, it defines magic methods such as __get() to access basic section
information and format-specific options (retrieved only on the first request)
- format_base::update_course_format_options() allows to watch pre-update state of the course,
format_legacy automatically copies the options with the same names between formats
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).
By the way, the current style of creating course_sections is ugly. We
should probably have something like
make_sure_that_at_least_default_section_exists($courseid, $sectionid=null)
and not to insert it into database at many places as we do now.
