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  • 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).
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<?php
// This file is part of Moodle - http://moodle.org/
//
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/**
 * A scheduled task.
 *
 * @package    core
 * @copyright  2013 onwards Martin Dougiamas  http://dougiamas.com
 * @license    http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html GNU GPL v3 or later
 */
namespace core\task;

/**
 * Simple task to run the daily completion cron.
 * @copyright  2013 onwards Martin Dougiamas  http://dougiamas.com.
 * @license    http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html GNU GPL v3 or later.
 */
class completion_daily_task extends scheduled_task {

    /**
     * Get a descriptive name for this task (shown to admins).
     *
     * @return string
     */
    public function get_name() {
        return get_string('taskcompletiondaily', 'admin');
    }

    /**
     * Do the job.
     * Throw exceptions on errors (the job will be retried).
     */
    public function execute() {
        global $CFG, $DB;

        if ($CFG->enablecompletion) {
            require_once($CFG->libdir . "/completionlib.php");

            if (debugging()) {
                mtrace('Marking users as started');
            }

            // This causes it to default to everyone (if there is no student role).
            $sqlroles = '';
            if (!empty($CFG->gradebookroles)) {
                $sqlroles = ' AND ra.roleid IN (' . $CFG->gradebookroles.')';
            }

            // It's purpose is to locate all the active participants of a course with course completion enabled.
            // We also only want the users with no course_completions record as this functions job is to create
            // the missing ones :)
            // We want to record the user's enrolment start time for the course. This gets tricky because there can be
            // multiple enrolment plugins active in a course, hence the possibility of multiple records for each
            // couse/user in the results.
            $sql = "SELECT c.id AS course, u.id AS userid, crc.id AS completionid, ue.timestart AS timeenrolled,
                           ue.timecreated
                      FROM {user} u
                INNER JOIN {user_enrolments} ue ON ue.userid = u.id
                INNER JOIN {enrol} e ON e.id = ue.enrolid
                INNER JOIN {course} c ON c.id = e.courseid
                INNER JOIN {context} con ON con.contextlevel = ? AND con.instanceid = c.id
                INNER JOIN {role_assignments} ra ON ra.userid = u.id AND ra.contextid = con.id
                 LEFT JOIN {course_completions} crc ON crc.course = c.id AND crc.userid = u.id
                     WHERE c.enablecompletion = 1
                       AND crc.timeenrolled IS NULL
                       AND ue.status = 0
                       AND e.status = 0
                       AND u.deleted = 0
                       AND ue.timestart < ?
                       AND (ue.timeend > ? OR ue.timeend = 0)
                       $sqlroles
                  ORDER BY course, userid";
            $now = time();
            $rs = $DB->get_recordset_sql($sql, [CONTEXT_COURSE, $now, $now]);

            // Check if result is empty.
            if (!$rs->valid()) {
                // Not going to iterate (but exit), close rs.
                $rs->close();
                return;
            }

            // We are essentially doing a group by in the code here (as I can't find a decent way of doing it
            // in the sql). Since there can be multiple enrolment plugins for each course, we can have multiple rows
            // for each participant in the query result. This isn't really a problem until you combine it with the fact
            // that the enrolment plugins can save the enrol start time in either timestart or timeenrolled.
            // The purpose of the loop is to find the earliest enrolment start time for each participant in each course.
            $prev = null;
            while ($rs->valid() || $prev) {
                $current = $rs->current();
                if (!isset($current->course)) {
                    $current = false;
                } else {
                    // Not all enrol plugins fill out timestart correctly, so use whichever is non-zero.
                    $current->timeenrolled = max($current->timecreated, $current->timeenrolled);
                }

                // If we are at the last record, or we aren't at the first and the record is for a diff user/course.
                if ($prev && (!$rs->valid() ||
                        ($current->course != $prev->course || $current->userid != $prev->userid))) {

                    $completion = new \completion_completion();
                    $completion->userid = $prev->userid;
                    $completion->course = $prev->course;
                    $completion->timeenrolled = (string) $prev->timeenrolled;
                    $completion->timestarted = 0;
                    $completion->reaggregate = time();
                    if ($prev->completionid) {
                        $completion->id = $prev->completionid;
                    }
> $completion->mark_enrolled(); > try {
if (debugging()) { mtrace('Marked started user ' . $prev->userid . ' in course ' . $prev->course);
> } } > } catch (\dml_write_exception $e) { } else if ($prev && $current) { > // Most likely this happened because the completion object was created while we were working. // Else, if this record is for the same user/course use oldest timeenrolled. > // So get the record and make sure it has a time enrolled set. $current->timeenrolled = min($current->timeenrolled, $prev->timeenrolled); > if (debugging()) { } > mtrace('Exception while marking started user '.$prev->userid.' in course '.$prev->course.', retrying'); // Move current record to previous. > } $prev = $current; > // Move to next record. > $params = ['userid' => $completion->userid, 'course' => $completion->course]; $rs->next(); > $existing = new \completion_completion($params); } > if (!empty($existing->id) && empty($existing->timeenrolled)) { $rs->close(); > $existing->timeenrolled = $completion->timeenrolled; } > try { } > $existing->mark_enrolled(); } > } catch (\Exception $e) { > // Catch everything, so we can continue on to other records. > if (debugging()) { > mtrace('Exception again while marking started user '.$prev->userid.' in course '.$prev->course. > ': '.$e->getMessage()."\n".$e->getTraceAsString()); > } > } > } > } catch (\Exception $e) { > // Catch anything else, so we can continue on to other records. > if (debugging()) { > mtrace('Exception while marking started user '.$prev->userid.' in course '.$prev->course. > ': '.$e->getMessage()."\n".$e->getTraceAsString()); > }