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  • Bug fixes for general core bugs in 3.10.x will end 8 November 2021 (12 months).
  • Bug fixes for security issues in 3.10.x will end 9 May 2022 (18 months).
  • PHP version: minimum PHP 7.2.0 Note: minimum PHP version has increased since Moodle 3.8. PHP 7.3.x and 7.4.x are supported too.
   1  <?php
   2  
   3  // This file is part of Moodle - http://moodle.org/
   4  //
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  17  
  18  /**
  19   * @package    moodlecore
  20   * @subpackage backup-interfaces
  21   * @copyright  2010 onwards Eloy Lafuente (stronk7) {@link http://stronk7.com}
  22   * @license    http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html GNU GPL v3 or later
  23   */
  24  
  25  /**
  26   * Interface to apply to all the classes we want to calculate their checksum
  27   *
  28   * Each class being part of @backup_controller will implement this interface
  29   * in order to be able to calculate one objective and unique checksum for
  30   * the whole controller class.
  31   *
  32   * TODO: Finish phpdocs
  33   */
  34  interface checksumable {
  35  
  36      /**
  37       * This function will return one unique and stable checksum for one instance
  38       * of the class implementing it. It's each implementation responsibility to
  39       * do it recursively if needed and use optional store (caching) of the checksum if
  40       * necessary/possible
  41       */
  42      public function calculate_checksum();
  43  
  44      /**
  45       * Given one checksum, returns if matches object's checksum (true) or no (false)
  46       */
  47      public function is_checksum_correct($checksum);
  48  
  49  }