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Long Term Support Release

  • Bug fixes for general core bugs in 4.1.x will end 13 November 2023 (12 months).
  • Bug fixes for security issues in 4.1.x will end 10 November 2025 (36 months).
  • PHP version: minimum PHP 7.4.0 Note: minimum PHP version has increased since Moodle 4.0. PHP 8.0.x is supported too.
<?php
// This file is part of Moodle - http://moodle.org/
//
// Moodle is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
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// the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
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//
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/**
 * Starred courses block external API
 *
 * @package    block_starredcourses
 * @category   external
 * @copyright  2018 Simey Lameze <simey@moodle.com>
 * @license    http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html GNU GPL v3 or later
 */
defined('MOODLE_INTERNAL') || die;

require_once($CFG->libdir . '/externallib.php');

require_once($CFG->dirroot . '/course/lib.php');
require_once($CFG->dirroot . '/course/externallib.php');

use \core_course\external\course_summary_exporter;

/**
 * Starred courses block external functions.
 *
 * @copyright  2018 Simey Lameze <simey@moodle.com>
 * @license    http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html GNU GPL v3 or later
 */
class block_starredcourses_external extends core_course_external {

    /**
     * Returns description of method parameters
     *
     * @return external_function_parameters
     * @since Moodle 3.6
     */
    public static function get_starred_courses_parameters() {
        return new external_function_parameters([
            'limit' => new external_value(PARAM_INT, 'Limit', VALUE_DEFAULT, 0),
            'offset' => new external_value(PARAM_INT, 'Offset', VALUE_DEFAULT, 0)
        ]);
    }

    /**
     * Get users starred courses.
     *
     * @param int $limit Limit
     * @param int $offset Offset
     *
     * @return  array list of courses and warnings
     */
    public static function get_starred_courses($limit, $offset) {
        global $USER, $PAGE;

        $params = self::validate_parameters(self::get_starred_courses_parameters(), [
            'limit' => $limit,
            'offset' => $offset
        ]);

        $limit = $params['limit'];
        $offset = $params['offset'];

        $usercontext = context_user::instance($USER->id);

        self::validate_context($usercontext);
        $PAGE->set_context($usercontext);
        $renderer = $PAGE->get_renderer('core');

        // Get the user favourites service, scoped to a single user (their favourites only).
        $userservice = \core_favourites\service_factory::get_service_for_user_context($usercontext);

        // Get the favourites, by type, for the user.
        $favourites = $userservice->find_favourites_by_type('core_course', 'courses', $offset, $limit);

> $favouritecourseids = []; // Sort the favourites getting last added first. > if ($favourites) { usort($favourites, function($a, $b) { > $favouritecourseids = array_map( if ($a->timemodified == $b->timemodified) return 0; > function($favourite) { return ($a->timemodified > $b->timemodified) ? -1 : 1; > return $favourite->itemid; }); > }, $favourites); > } $formattedcourses = array(); > foreach ($favourites as $favourite) { > // Get all courses that the current user is enroled in, restricted down to favourites. $course = get_course($favourite->itemid); > $filteredcourses = []; $context = \context_course::instance($favourite->itemid); > if ($favouritecourseids) { $canviewhiddencourses = has_capability('moodle/course:viewhiddencourses', $context); > $courses = course_get_enrolled_courses_for_logged_in_user(0, 0, null, null, > COURSE_DB_QUERY_LIMIT, $favouritecourseids); if ($course->visible || $canviewhiddencourses) { > list($filteredcourses, $processedcount) = course_filter_courses_by_favourites( $exporter = new course_summary_exporter($course, ['context' => $context, 'isfavourite' => true]); > $courses, $formattedcourse = $exporter->export($renderer); > $favouritecourseids, $formattedcourses[] = $formattedcourse; > 0 } > ); } > } > // Grab the course ids. return $formattedcourses; > $filteredcourseids = array_column($filteredcourses, 'id'); } > > // Filter out any favourites that are not in the list of enroled courses. /** > $filteredfavourites = array_filter($favourites, function($favourite) use ($filteredcourseids) { * Returns description of method result value > return in_array($favourite->itemid, $filteredcourseids); * > }); * @return external_description >
< usort($favourites, function($a, $b) {
> usort($filteredfavourites, function($a, $b) {
< foreach ($favourites as $favourite) {
> foreach ($filteredfavourites as $favourite) {
public static function get_starred_courses_returns() { return new external_multiple_structure(course_summary_exporter::get_read_structure()); } }