It is still used widely in the plugins that would stop working suddenly
without being warned via a debugging message. We must keep it forever as
an alias for the wwwroot.
The new setting will allow to host the temporary backup files
into a specific target directory. Defaults to '$CFG->tempdir/backup'.
Calling make_backup_temp_directory() checks that the required sub-directory
will be properly created under the new target directory.
* Introduce a new php compatible library which can be used
early in execution, without Moodle dependencies
* Use it where we previously had hardcoded checks
This was originally suggested in MDL-39007.
Moodle 3.2 and up will require PHP >= 5.6.5. Hopefully some day we'll
have this centralized with MDL-39007, just it's not done yet.
Thanks to Stephen Bourget for raising this!
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.
This patch replaces all homegrown timezone
stuff with standard PHP date/time code.
The main change is the introduction of core_date
class that returns normalised user and server
timezones. From now on nobody should be using
$CFG->timezone or $user->timezone directly!
Other new features and fixes:
* admins are prompted for timezone during install
* editing of other users is finally fixed
* timezones are displayed in user profile
* new $this->setTimezone() in phpunit
* time locale is now automatically reset in phpunit
* timezone is now automatically reset in phpunit
* phpunit has Australia/Perth as default timezone
This reverses the references used for global $USER and $SESSION,
the reason is that PHP does not allow references to references.
$USER is a reference to $GLOBALS['USER'] which means we cannot
put any references to it. Solution is to store the current user and session
objects in $GLOBALS['USER'] and $GLOBALS['SESSIOn'] are reference
them in $_SESSION.
This patch makes the session code behave the same way in CLI,
phpunit and normal web requests - this allows use to finally
unit test most aspects of the session code in Moodle.
Improvements include:
* Alternative location might be useful when server administrator wants to maintain
a local copy of component cache instead of using shared $CFG->cachedir.
* Component caching is now enabled in behat tests which should improve performance.
* Standardised ignoring of component caching.
* Fixed debug mode in ABORT_AFTER_CONFIG scripts.
* General documentation improvements.
