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Moodle web services connection library

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Moodle - Webservice Moodle in Python
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Webservice functions to Moodle

Installation
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Installing Moodle Webservice is fairly easy. You can...

sudo python setup.py install

Setting up Moodle 2.0.x web services
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1. Enable web services
- Site administration => Plugins => Web services => Overview => Enable web services

2. Enable REST or XML-RPC protocol
- Site administration => Plugins => Web services => Overview => Enable protocols

3. Create web services user with Admin rights (for web services authentication)
- Site administration => Plugins => Web services => Overview => Create a specific user

4. Set permissions
- Site administration => Plugins => Web services => Overview => Check user capability

5. Add a service
- Site administration => Plugins => Web services => Overview => Select a service
- => add (eg. moodle/user:wiewalldetails: View user full information)

6. Add functions you want access to
- Site administration => Plugins => Web services => Overview => Select a service
- => Functions => Add functions (eg. moodle_user_create_users, moodle_user_create_users)

7. Allow web services user access to web service
- Site administration => Plugins => Web services => Overview => Select a service
- => Authorised users

8. Create security token
- Site administration => Plugins => Web services => Overview => Create a token for a user

Example Use
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Create a new course:

from moodle import MDL
mdl = MDL()

# Connect to moodle data
server = {
'protocol': 'xmlrpc', # xmlrpc, rest
'uri': 'http://www.mymoodle.org',
'token': 'yourtokenkeymoodle',
}

# Create new courses
courses = [{
'shortname': 'New Course', # shortname must be unique
'fullname': 'New Course Zikzakmedia',
'categoryid': 1,
#'visible': 1,
'id': 2,
#'maxbytes': 2097152,
#'showreports': 0,
#'startdate': 1314396000,
#'defaultgroupingid': 0,
#'summaryformat': 1,
#'completionstartonenrol': 0,
#'groupmode': 0,
#'numsections': 10,
#'showgrades': 1,
#'enablecompletion': 0,
#'hiddensections': 0,
#'format': 'topics',
#'completionnotify': 0,
#'lang': '',
#'categorysortorder': 10001,
#'timecreated': 1314367091,
#'groupmodeforce': 0,
#'forcetheme': '',
#'summary': u'<p>\ufeff</p>',
#'idnumber': '',
#'newsitems': 5,
#'timemodified': 1314367091
}]
mdl.create_courses(server, courses)

The implemented methods and APIs are:

* create_courses(server, courses)
* get_courses(server)
* create_users(server, users)
* update_users(server, users)
* get_users(server, user_ids)
* enrol_users(server, enrols)

For more examples, see examples dir


Changes
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Version 0.0.1
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* Rest protocol connection
* XML-RPC protocol connection
* TODO: SOAP and AMF Protocols
* Webserices available
* create_courses(server, courses)
* get_courses(server)
* create_users(server, users)
* update_users(server, users)
* get_users(server, user_ids)
* enrol_users(server, enrols)
* update courses webservice available Moodle version 2.2. TODO

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