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Long Term Support Release

  • Bug fixes for general core bugs in 3.9.x will end* 10 May 2021 (12 months).
  • Bug fixes for security issues in 3.9.x will end* 8 May 2023 (36 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.
<?php
// This file is part of Moodle - http://moodle.org/
//
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/**
 * Base class for checks
 *
 * @package    core
 * @category   check
 * @copyright  2020 Brendan Heywood <brendan@catalyst-au.net>
 * @license    http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html GNU GPL v3 or later
 */
namespace core\check;

defined('MOODLE_INTERNAL') || die();

/**
 * Base class for checks
 *
 * @copyright  2020 Brendan Heywood <brendan@catalyst-au.net>
 * @license    http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html GNU GPL v3 or later
 */
abstract class check {

    /**
< * @var $string $component - The component / plugin this task belongs to.
> * @var string $component - The component / plugin this task belongs to.
* * This is autopopulated by the check manager. */ protected $component = 'core'; /** * Get the frankenstyle component name * * @return string */ public function get_component(): string { return $this->component; } /** * Get the frankenstyle component name * * @param string $component name */ public function set_component(string $component) { $this->component = $component; } /** * Get the check's id * * This defaults to the base name of the class which is ok in the most * cases but if you have a check which can have multiple instances then * you should override this to be unique. * * @return string must be unique within a component */ public function get_id(): string { $class = get_class($this); $id = explode("\\", $class); return end($id); } /** * Get the check reference * * @return string must be globally unique */ public function get_ref(): string { $ref = $this->get_component(); if (!empty($ref)) { $ref .= '_'; } $ref .= $this->get_id(); return $ref; } /** * Get the short check name * * @return string */ public function get_name(): string { $id = $this->get_id(); return get_string("check{$id}", $this->get_component()); } /** * A link to a place to action this *
< * @return action_link|null
> * @return \action_link|null
*/ public function get_action_link(): ?\action_link { return null; } /** * Return the result * * @return result object */ abstract public function get_result(): result; }