dirname() is a slow function compared with __DIR__ and using
'/../'. Moodle has a large number of legacy files that are included
each time a page loads and is not able to use an autoloader as it is
functional code. This allows those required includes to perform as
best as possible in this situation.
Added course start date for the course generated by the course
generator in order to prevent incorrect date calculations
(i.e. in assignment due dates) when the generated course is reset.
version = planned 2015051100 release version
requires= current 2015050500 rc1 version
Note: On purpose, the course format social wrong version (2015102100)
has been kept unmodified. Looking forward a solution right now.
List of changes:
* New OOP API using PHP namespace \core\session\.
* All handlers now update the sessions table consistently.
* Experimental DB session support in Oracle.
* Full support for session file handler (filesystem locking required).
* New option for alternative session directory.
* Official memcached session handler support.
* Workaround for memcached version with non-functional gc.
* Improved security - forced session id regeneration.
* Improved compatibility with recent PHP releases.
* Fixed borked CSS during install in debug mode.
* Switched to file based sessions in new installs.
* DB session setting disappears if DB does not support sessions.
* DB session setting disappears if session handler specified in config.php.
* Fast purging of sessions used in request only.
* No legacy distinction - file, database and memcached support the same functionality.
* Session handler name included in performance info.
* Fixed user_loggedin and user_loggedout event triggering.
* Other minor bugfixing and improvements.
* Fixed database session segfault if MUC disposed before $DB.
Limitations:
* Session access time is now updated right after session start.
* Support for $CFG->sessionlockloggedinonly was removed.
* First request does not update userid in sessions table.
* The timeouts may break badly if server hosting forces PHP.ini session settings.
* The session GC is a lot slower, we do not rely on external session timeouts.
* There cannot be any hooks triggered at the session write time.
* File and memcached handlers do not support session lock acquire timeouts.
* Some low level PHP session functions can not be used directly in Moodle code.
Ideally we should generate all the XML based on
modular components so we can also switch templates
between different sizes, this is a first step and
more work should be done in future in this direction.
Also:
- Added a soft password for the
newly generated users so we can use
them to log in the site when running
performance tests.
- Added a method to see the courses-users
relation from outside course_backend class.
Moving it to course_backend keeping generic
methods and attributes in backend class.
AMOS BEGIN
MOV [size_0,tool_generator],[coursesize_0,tool_generator]
MOV [size_1,tool_generator],[coursesize_1,tool_generator]
MOV [size_2,tool_generator],[coursesize_2,tool_generator]
MOV [size_3,tool_generator],[coursesize_3,tool_generator]
MOV [size_4,tool_generator],[coursesize_4,tool_generator]
MOV [size_5,tool_generator],[coursesize_5,tool_generator]
AMOS END
