Log of /moodle/config-dist.php

MDL-18006 MDL-18807 MDL-20853 suggest some longer and better salt

MDL-18006 MDL-18807 MDL-20853 suggest some longer and better salt

MDL-18006 MDL-18807 MDL-20853 adding salt info into config-dist.php

MDL-18006 MDL-18807 MDL-20853 adding salt info into config-dist.php

backup/nopasswords MDL-20383 Backups are now never saved with user passwords unless the admin has defined $CFG->includeuserbackupsinpasswords in config.php  (Merged from 1.9)   Credits to Eloy

backup/nopasswords MDL-20838 Backups are now never saved with user passwords unless the admin has defined $CFG->includeuserbackupsinpasswords in config.php  (Merged from 1.9)  Credits to Eloy

backup/nopasswords MDL-20838 Backups are now never saved with user passwords unless $CFG->includeuserpasswordsinbackup is turned on in config.php (only)

MDL-20700 coding style cleanup - cvs keywords removed, closign php tag removed, trailing whitespace cleanup

MDL-19039 improved default frontpage role capability evealuation, needs to be manually enabled in config.php

MDL-19039 improved default frontpage role capability evealuation, needs to be manually enabled in config.php

blocklib MDL-20207 Added $CFG->undeletableblocktypes and documented in config-dist

MDL-19417 added timezone settings info; backported from HEAD

MDL-19417 added timezone settings info

themes: MDL-19077 change how the theme is initialised and CSS is served.

This is part of http://docs.moodle.org/en/Development:Theme_engines_for_Moodle%3F

$THEME is now initialised at the same time as $OUTPUT. Old functions like
theme_setup are deprecated in favour of methods on $PAGE. There is a new
theme_config class in outputlib.php that deals with loading the theme config.php file.

CSS used to be served by themes styles.php files calling a function in weblib.php.
Now it works by each theme's styles.php file doing
$themename = basename(dirname(__FILE__));
require_once(dirname(__FILE__) . '/../../theme/styles.php');
which is less code to be copied into each theme. (Old-style styles.php files still
work thanks to some code in deprecatedlib.php.)

Admin UI for choosing a theme cleaned up.

A couple of theme-specific hard-coded hacks like $THEME->cssconstants and
$THEME->CSSEdit have been replaced by a more generic $THEME->customcssoutputfunction
hook. See examples at the end of outputlib.php

Also:
* Fix setting the theme in the URL, which seems to have been broken since 1.9.
* Fix up errors on a few pages caused by the new initialisation order.
* MDL-19097 moodle_page::set_course should not set $COURSE unless it is $PAGE.
* httpsrequired() from moodlelib.php moved to $PAGE->https_required().
* Move has_started() method to the renderer base class.
* Further fixes to display of early errors.
* Remove print_header/footer_old from weblib. I did not mean to commit them before.

small fix: MDL-19268 thanks to Emanuel Delgado

small fix: MDL-19268 thanks to Emanuel Delgado

blocklib: MDL-19010 start of block_manager - get and set regions

MDL-17458 prevent trailing whitespace problems in config.php

database: MDL-18269 query logging behaviour changed in Moodle 1.9 due to internal ADODB changes.

MDL-17942 $CFG->respectsessionsettings obsoleted by db sessions - can not be used anymore

MDL-17849 sql queries not printed by default during upgrade anymore, there is a new config.php only setting $CFG->upgradeshowsql instead

MDL-16483 $CFG->unittestprefix not required anymore to run unit tests that do not need fake db; it should be saer to let admins modify the prefix in config.php instead of modifying it from php

MDL-17754, MDL-11061, MDL-9276, MDL-17777, MDL-17787 - various url handling improvemetns; rewritten $FULLME and added $ME, $SCRIPT and $FULLSCRIPT; improved slashargument handling especially for IIS; removed legacy slasharguments functions obsoleted since 1.6; some other refactoring; reverse procy support, ssl appliance support

MDL-16486 Improved interface, added permission warning and other minor fixes

MDL-15267 PHP5 strict object warning, whitespace fixes

MDL-14589 initial file storage implementation, temporary file manager, migration of course files; blog conversion MDL-15905; assignment conversion MDL-15904; fromslib  related file improvements MDL-15906

MDL-15476
Can now override the public key lifetime by specificying value
for $CFG->mnetkeylifetime in config.php

Merged from STABLE_19

MDL-15476
Can now override the public key lifetime by specificying value
for $CFG->mnetkeylifetime in config.php

"MDL-14703, remove obsolete options, merged from MOODLE_19_STABLE"

"MDL-14703, remove obsolete options"

"MDL-14538, remove duplicated settings, see tracker, merged from MOODLE_19_STABLE"

"MDL-14538, remove duplicated settings, see tracker"

MDL-13483 adding noemailever info; merged from MOODLE_19_STABLE

MDL-13483 adding noemailever info

MDL-10859 - Documenting $CFG-logsql

New $CFG->xmldbreconstructprevnext setting to allow edition of XMLDB
out from the XMLDBEditor, ignoring the prev/next stuff, that will be
automatically regenerated by the Editor by simply loading and saving
the edited file. Credit goes to skodak!

Some fixes for copyright years etc

Config setting for the theme order priorities.

xmldb: added $CFG options for disabling next / previous value checkings & enforced comment checking. merged from mahara :)

Restoring changes all the changes in MOODLE_16_STABLE since MOODLE_16_BETA.

This had to be done because the MOODLE_16_STABLE branch tags were moved.

Hopefully after this MOODLE_16_STABLE will be back to how it was (and a
proper branch) but some of the history may look a bit odd.

See MDL-9032 for more discussion and details.

we are going 100% unicode now - removed use of $CFG->unicodedb and current_charset(); MDL-7439 - part 2, only hotpot and wiki left

Merging $CFG->disablestatsprocessing from stable

Added a hidden $CFG->disablestatsprocessing variable to disable stats completely

Removed all of the "Restricted users" hack because Roles can do it all better.

Merged new variable $CFG->allowvisiblecoursesinhiddencategories from stable

Document $CFG->allowvisiblecoursesinhiddencategories

fixed typo bug #4527; backported from HEAD

fixed typo bug #4527

Removed comments for global filter settings.
These now have a GUI option on the admin=>filters page

optional unicode characters and better conversion to ascii in function clean_file(); fixed textlib setup code; unicode related cleanup in config-dist.php

I am going to review the usage of clean_filename() now

Optional "Login as" password protection - please test, usage explained in config-dist.php

Fixed some typos

Fixed some typos

Merged feature to email database connection erorrs to someone into stable

Added a new config variable that will mail db connection errors to someone (eg admin)

Making custom scripts path generic so it is not forced to be in the
dataroot directory which is writable by the web server.
Path cleaned to avoid relative directory links.

Merged with MOODLE_16_MULTIENROL_MP1

$CFG->filterall has a setting on the filters admin page, so isn't
needed in here any more.

New 404 handler for a custompix fallback

Adding the capability to replace existing scripts with customised versions.
See config-dist.php for more info.

Will add an admin interface for this later.

Shane.

merged from MOODLE_15_STABLE

fixed output when config-dist.php called directly SC #779

Merged from STABLE

Fixed typo. See bug #3573

Apache log integration -- moved documentation to config-dist.php.

Apache log integration -- updated with more options to control what is logged as username. Implemented by Patrick Li.

Some tabs are out!

Added variable $CFG->disablemycourses

Merged from MOODLE_14_STABLE: SQL errors are now (optionally -- defaults to off) logged to the apache error log. Helps debugging! Credit: Patrick Li <patrick@catalyst.net.nz>

SQL errors are now (optionally -- defaults to off) logged to the apache error log. Helps debugging! Credit: Patrick Li <patrick@catalyst.net.nz>

A quick hack to allow anonymising of all names.

You can make everyone have the name "Bruce" if you want.   }-)

Added option to cache langlist in dataroot/cache/languages. If enabled saves around 10MB of memory and 40 includes (some really large)

Performance/footprint profiling patch complete -- is enabled by CFG->default>7 or by a few defines in your config.php.

Added support for $CFG->filtermatchoneperpage, allowing a phrase
to be linked only once in the entire page.

Changed variable name because Eloy has plans for $CFG->filtermatchoneperpage :-)

So $CFG->filtermatchfirstonly isn't forgotten

$CFG->preferlinegraphs will make graphs use lines instead of bars

CFG->nofixday can override the ficing of day format in userdate

Cleaned up this file a bit, was getting messy!

Merged from MOODLE_14_STABLE - Added option to respect php.ini session settings, else we reenable garbage collection for sessions. Fixes stale session problems with Debian systems, but still allows package maintainers to override.

Added option to respect php.ini session settings, else we reenable garbage collection for sessions. Fixes stale session problems with Debian systems, but still allows package maintainers to override.

First cut of email to module (or core) processing.

This patch contains:

* email_to_user will set the envelope sender to a special bounce processing address (based on $CFG settings)
* email_to_user will accept (and set) a reply-to header, to be generated by the module calling the function.

* new functions:

	* generate_email_processing_address - ALWAYS use this to generate the reply-to header. reply-to header will look like this:

	(LIMIT: 64 chars total)
	prefix - EXACTLY four chars
	encodeded, packed, moduleid (0 for core) (2 chars)
	up to 42 chars for the modules to put anything they want it (can contain userid (or, eg for forum, postids to reply to), or anything really. 42 chars is ABSOLUTE LIMIT)
	16 char hash (half an md5) of the first part of the address, together with a site "secret"

	* moodle_process_email - any non-module email processing goes here (currently used for processing bounces)

* bounce handling:

	* config settings for bounce threshold and ratio (and whether to handle bounces at all)
	* if too many bounces occur against any given user, user_not_fully_set_up will force an email address change
	* associated functions (over_bounce_threshold, set_send_count, set_bounce_count)

* handling emails to noreply address (see below)

* new script - admin/process_email.php

	This script needs to be called from your mail program for anything starting with the 4 char prefix described above (and optionally, the noreply address)
	It will bounce emails to the noreplyaddress, with a friendly "this is not a real email address" message

	It will break down and unencode the email address into moduleid and validate the half md5 hash, and call $modname_process_email (if it exists). Arguments to these functions are: $modargs (any part of the email address that isn't the prefix, modid or the hash) and the contents of the email (read from STDIN).

* associated string changes/additions

* changes in config-dist.php to give clues as to how to set this up.

MODULE WRITERS!

take a look at new functions moodle_process_email and generate_email_processing_address  in moodlelib.php for ideas about how to

	* encode and unencode the arguments your module needs to do the processing
	* how to deal with multiple "actions" for any given module.

Martin Langhoff <martin@catalyst.net.nz> will be writing up some PROPER documentation, containing amongst other things config settings for different mail servers (this was developed against Postfix).  Feel free to email me with any feedback on the code or design, penny@catalyst.net.nz.  Or post on the developer fourm.

Some changes that may help on safe mode ... see bug 2093

The new directory permissions maintain group mode better,
and the manual chown is now removed to prevent safe mode
from getting upset.

New config variable $CFG->tracksessionip will force Moodle to always
check that the user's IP number never changes

Adding this (optional) feature to 1.4 stable because it seems quite
a few people really need it.

Two new config variables allow certain email addresses to be allowed or not.

Added new config directives for default block functions.

Merged loginhttps config from stable

Moved loginhttps into main config screen.  Some security has been built
in to prevent accidental enabling on sites without https.

added $CFG->filelifetime to config-dist.php

Formatting

Fixed paths for aspell setting.

Add editor settings feature and Ludo's (Marc Alier) spellchecking functionality.
- Needs testing and should consider unstable.

Based on code from Janne - this allows secure logins via https

   $CFG->loginhttps

After logging in via https, Moodle returns to a normal http URL


More info:  http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=8555

Latest settings in config-dist.php (removed some)

Changed example for dirroot which must not contain capital letters

A new option (off by default) will remove restrictions on usernames.

  $CFG->extendedusernamechars

Document $CFG->forceloginforprofiles

New developmental setting to force UTF for the whole server

Plus, some optimisation on the way encoding is stored (in the session).

More details

Changed default value for DB persistence

Fixed some years

New "secret" variable

SOme info about $CFG->filterall

Updated config-dist.php since options have moved out of it

TEXT CACHING
------------

I have a site which really needs this, so I went ahead with it already.

This add-on will cache formatted texts in the database and use them
for a specified timeperiod.

By default it is disabled.   Enable it with:

  $CFG->cachetext = 600;   // in seconds

Added some documentation about a few preferences that are only in config.php
right now.

got rid of bad line endings

Undoing some wacko formatting ... What were you trying to do, Gustav?

removed empty lines, which for example messed up the display of the license terms

Fixed up some examples

No need for useneweditor anymore

Changes to integrate the new HTML editor into Moodle in an optional way
until it's stable enough to replace Richtext

To enable the new editor, add this line into config.php:

  $CFG->useneweditor = true;

NEW EXPERIMENTAL FEATURE: text filters.

This new feature allows arbitrary text filters to be added to
any HTML that is printed (forum posts, resources etc) ... anything
that uses the standard format_text function.

The first one properly supported is the glossary dynamic linking
feature.

Some docs for PostgreSQL sockets users (see bug #749)

Slightly different way of doing this to avoid problems with error_reporting
not working.

Checking in the include error code in again, with improvements

The problems I thought were happening were in fact another problem
on someone's installation (missing files).  This code now checks
for that too.

Going back to old method, as the new one seems to have problems on some
platforms.

Added a check to make sure CFG->dirroot is correct.

Changed default strings to use single-quotes and avoid possible slash problems

New configuration variable: secureforms   (defaults to 'true')

Replaces the old $CFG->buggy_referer (reverses it, in fact) and can
now be set in the configuration page (no need for it in config.php).

IMPORTANT SECURITY FIX - this makes sure $CFG can not be overridden

More info about admin location and a fix

Removed main_frame

This is a first attempt to make moodle frame safe.

I've added the variable CFG->main_frame to config-dist.php, and replaced _top
targets with the variable in all the php files.  HTML files, like those in the
documentation, have not been modified, as they are not (yet) parsed.

The variable should probably get moved into the config table, and get some
documentation.

I've also included, but commented out, a slight change in weblib.php, which
would guarantee that messages would be seen before redirecting the user (unless
delay intentionally set to 0 when redirect is used).

Removed a line from config.php

Slightly clearer documentation

Clean sweep through all the important changing all include(), include_once()
and require() to require_once()

Clearer directions.

Many many changes lumped in here ... not finished yet either.

Basically all the Database functions are in lib/datalib.php
and the web functions are all in lib/weblib.php, so
moodlelib.php is much thinner than it was.

Data functions have been extended ... most old calls will
still work, but now many more SQL commands can be performed
using the datalib functions rather than using SQL.  I'm
currently moving through the whole tree replacing SQL
calls or at least concentrating them in one section of
mod/xxx/lib.php

Still working on forums, quizzes, surveys, resources.

The tree is currently not full working ... some things are
half-completed ... will resume tomorrow.

Another hint for the Windows users

Changed it to DOS format to help Windows users

Added info about $CFG->buggy_referer

Most of the configuration variables have been moved out of the config.php
file and into a database, where they can be edited using a new admin form
called "Configure variables".

Mentioned there's no need to use a trailing slash on the wwwroot

Added ability to define proxy machine (eg a firewall) so that Moodle
is able to get to the Internet if it needs to

Changes to use a new configuration variable: CFG->slasharguments

If true, then display of user pictures or filenames will use the
method of providing arguments as "slash" arguments - this is much
better for caching, proxies, search engines etc.  Unfortunately
it doesn't seem to work on some PHP installations.

If false (the default), then a more compatible method is used
(ie usual way of passing parameters to scripts)

New CFG->zip and CFG->unzip valiables which specify programs to use
when zipping and unzipping files.  Unix only at this stage. (Zip interfaces
for Windows are much less standardised)

Changes related to new way of setting and recalling themes.

The CFG->theme variable is now obsolete in config.php - use the
admin page to set themes interactively.

Mention the new themes

Slightly clearer explanations ...

Made it a bit clearer.

New config variable longtimenosee

Language-related fixes

Slight changes to documentation

Changes to support GD 1 and GD 2.  Well, to be more accurate, we now
rely on the administrator to tell us which is installed because PHP
is not reliable  (eg GD 2.* functions are available in 4.0.6 and later
EVEN WHEN gd 2 is not present ... sigh).


So, new config variable  $CFG->gdversion

Altered smtphosts and removed cronpassword

Indicates only MySQL is supported for now.

Added CFG->cronpassword for moodle/admin/cron.php

smtphost --> smtphosts

Added to eliminate problems of config.php being overwritten