Static variables do not behave the way you might expect when accessing
them through the classes inheritance. When accessing a method via self::
or static:: operators, even though the method is inherited, its variable
scope is not. So the method unique_sql_parameter() was using the scope
of the child class and each child class had its own sequence of usp1,
usp2, usp3, ... placeholders. This led to "Incorrect number of query
parameters" error when multiuple condition classes were contributing to
a single SQL query.
All credit should go to Adam Olley who debugged and described the
essence of the problem in the tracker.
The previous API included a facility to filter a list of users
to include only those who are allowed to access an activity, i.e.
only people who belong to the required groups etc.
This change adds a new API function to return SQL that obtains
this list of users, so that it can be combined with other
queries.
This commit defines the new /availability root folder, with
/availability/classes, /availability/tests, and
/availability/condition where the condition plugins will live.
Condition plugin prefix is availability_, e.g. availability_date.
Rationale for this organisation:
1. I was originally going to put this in /lib/availability but
it has been pointed out that putting even more junk in lib
is probably bad.
2. 'availability' and 'condition' are the two names used in code
to refer to this system ($CFG->enableavailability).
3. The prefix has to be short enough to allow database tables
(although in practice I assume that condition plugins will not
normally contain database tables).
The new API includes a Boolean tree structure that controls the
availability of an item.
AMOS BEGIN
CPY [availabilityconditions,core_condition],[restrictaccess,core_availability]
CPY [enableavailability,core_condition],[enableavailability,core_availability]
CPY [configenableavailability,core_condition],[enableavailability_desc,core_availability]
AMOS END
