Re: [Hw4mdl-devel] Catalyst code review - comments please

[Ashley H. <as...@ne...>]

Hi Thomas,

Thanks for that info on the StudentBis role.

The isteacher() etc functions are now replaced with has_capability().  
Modules can define their own capabilities for each role which I am 
working on a patch for.

Cheers
Ashley.

Thomas Rollinger wrote:
> Hi Ashley,
>
> StudentBis is a temporary role.  It used when the teacher switches his  
> role to a student role by the drop down "Switch role to ..." .
> This role has the same behavior than student role except for the  
> launching of the tools. In this case, a popup will alert the teacher  
> that the tool is launched with the student privilege.
>
> Do you know which functions replace isteacher() isadmin() in the new  
> version of moodle?
>
> Best
>
> Thomas
>
> On 3 févr. 08, at 21:07, Ashley Holman wrote:
>
>   
>> Hi Thomas,
>>
>> In the getRoleForWimbaTools() function in WimbaLib.php, one of the  
>> return values is "StudentBis".  What is that role and is it still  
>> needed?  I'm working on using capabilities to define the Wimba roles  
>> so wanted to see which situation "StudentBis" should be used in...  
>> does it need its own capability defined?
>>
>> Also I note that the isteacher() isadmin() etc functions are in  
>> Moodle's lib/deprecatedlib.php as of 1.7 so its probably important  
>> that these functions be no longer used.
>>
>> Thanks
>> Ashley.
>>
>>     

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