This files describes API changes for course formats Overview of this plugin type at http://docs.moodle.org/dev/Course_formats === 2.4 === Course format API has been changed significantly. Instead of implementing callbacks course formats may overwrite the class format_base. See format_legacy class for a template for upgrading course format. * Function settings_navigation::add_course_editing_links() is completely removed, course format functions callback_XXXX_request_key() are no longer used (where XXXX is the course format name) * functions get_generic_section_name(), get_all_sections(), add_mod_to_section(), get_all_mods() are deprecated. See their phpdocs in lib/deprecatedlib.php on how to replace them * Course formats may now have their settings.php file as the most of other plugin types * Function format_section_renderer_base::is_section_current() is deprecated, overwrite/use function is_section_current in format class === 2.3 === * The new $course->coursedisplay option was introduced, users can now choose to display a section at a time if the course formats support it: - COURSE_DISPLAY_SINGLEPAGE indicates the teacher has chosen to display all sections on one page - COURSE_DISPLAY_MULTIPAGE indicates the teacher has chose to have seperate pages with each section. * The parameter for 'currently active section' was standardised in core: - The course format is passed the currently live section through the $displaysection varaible to format.php - A 'section' paramter is the standardised way to pass around the current section in a course - Navigation no longer looks for custom parameters defined in callback_format_request_key