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Moodle - snippets & autocomplete

This extension for Visual Studio Code adds Moodle v. 3.4.6 snippets and autocompletion of functions, classes.

Features

Snippets for all public methods for GLOBAL variables:

$CFG
$DB
$OUTPUT
$PAGE

Snippets for all methods from:

lib/moodlelib.php

Also there are some snippets for file comments.

Usage

Type part of snippet, press Tab or Enter, and the snippet unfolds. Below is a list of the most important shortcuts.

Comments Snippets

Snippet	Purpose
`cfa`	Comment block with author of this file for Moodle
`cfm`	Moodle file comment block

`$OUTPUT` Snippets

Snippet	Purpose
`$Of`	`$OUTPUT->footer();`
`$Oh`	`$OUTPUT->header();`
`$Opi`	`$OUTPUT->pix_icon(...);`
`$Opu`	`$OUTPUT->pix_url(...);`
`$Orft`	`$OUTPUT->render_from_template(...);`

`$DB` Snippets

Snippet	Purpose
`$DBgr`	`$DB->get_record(...);`
`$DBgrs`	`$DB->get_records(...);`
`$DBre`	`$DB->record_exists(...);`
`$DBcr`	`$DB->count_records(...);`
`$DBir`	`$DB->insert_record(...);`
`$DBirs`	`$DB->insert_records(...);`
`$DBur`	`$DB->update_record(...);`
`$DBdrs`	`$DB->delete_records(...);`

`$PAGE` Snippets

Snippet	Purpose
`$Prcss`	`$PAGE->requires->css(...)`
`$Prjic`	`$PAGE->requires->js_init_call(...)`
`$Prjs`	`$PAGE->requires->js(...)`
`$Psc`	`$PAGE->set_context(...)`
`$Psh`	`$PAGE->set_heading(...)`
`$Pspl`	`$PAGE->set_pagelayout(...)`
`$Pst`	`$PAGE->set_title(...)`
`$Psu`	`$PAGE->set_url(...)`

`moodlelib.php` Snippets

Snippet	Purpose
`cl`	`current_language(...);`
`gs`	`get_string(...);`
`op`	`optional_param(...);`
`rl`	`require_login(...)`
`rp`	`required_param(...);`

Requirements

VSCode 1.30.0

Release Notes

1.0.0-3.4.6

Initial release

License