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.
1. Don't show a warning if there are a limited number of attempts, only
if there is a time limit.
2. Merge that time-limit warning into the same form that is used for
entering a password, etc.
3. Make that form an JavaScript dialogue when you click the start attempt
button.
AMOS BEGIN
MOV ['confirmstarttimelimit', 'mod_quiz'], ['confirmstart', 'quizaccess_timelimit']
AMOS END
The sequence of questions that made up a quiz used to be stored as a
comma-separated list in quiz.questions. Now the same information is
stored in the rows in the quiz_slots table. This is not just 'better' in
a database design sense, but it allows for the future changes we will
need as we enhance the quiz in the MDL-40987 epic.
Having changed the database structure, all the rest of the code needs to
be changed to account for it, and that is done here.
Note that there are not many unit tests for the changed bit. That is
because as part of MDL-40987 we will be changing the code further, and
we will add unit tests then.
Here, we catch all the places where a student might be accessing their
own attempts, and make sure any automatic state transitions that
should happen, do happen, before the student sees the attempt.
The places where we need to check this are view.php, startattempt.php
and processattempt.php.
We do not really need to check attempt.php or summary.php, because if
the student is on one of those pages, the JavaScript timer will
auto-submit when time expires, taking them to processattempt.php,
which will do the acutal work.
We intentionally do not trigger state transition when a teacher is
looking at a student's quiz attemp. We will trigger state transitions
on cron, but that is still to do.
Also, the body of the process_... methods still needs to be written.
This achieves a massive clean-up. It simplifies comples code in a number
of places. It allows some methods and functions to be moved to a more
appropriate home (for example cannot_review_message to the quiz class).
It moves more logic out of the renderer.
Includes change so that updating completion resets the cache, and a debugging
warning if any module calls the completion viewed thing after it's already
printed navigation (which will mean navigation obviously doesn't update right
away). All existing modules that currently update after printing navigation
were updated.
It was unnecessary on modern browsers, since they let thought a pop-up if you just clicked on a link, so this check was just causing an annoying and misleading alert.
Since the popupchecker was only used here, and since it was implemented in a way that does not work on all browsers, I just deleted the function. If anyone ever finds that they acutally need this functionality, they can re-implement it in a way that works.
