I'm very new to Moodle dev. I have read the basics of the API, and now started getting my hands dirty by making tinymce plugin. While doing so, I have encountered the following problem: How do I access settings.php from javascript.
I know how to access lan/en strings from javascript, I also know that in php, $layout_string = $this->get_config('statlayout');, will exract the setting 'statlayout'. What I want is to access $layout_string from JavaScript.
Well I supposed there is no standard way of doing this.
If you are making a plugin (not a subplugin for atto or tinymce), then you can simply call
global $PAGE; $PAGE->requires->yui_module( /* frankenstyle named yui module /, / entry function */ );
If you are making a subplugin, then you need to read the main plugin itself to discover how it calls javascript functions, for atto editor's case I think I saw the following in one of the main plugin:
reqiure_once("plugins/$pluginname/lib.php"); $functionname = "atto_".$puginname."params_for_js"; call_user_func($functionname, /* some args */ );
In which case your atto subplugin's lib.php must contain a atto_pluginname_params_for_js function, such that pluginname is the name of your plugin.
In software engineering perspective, that is beyond disgusting. All I can say to makes things better is to abide to the software engineering principles yourself when creating your own plugin and reduce intellectual baggage for the next person.
I personally think this is really hacky, and I wouldn't recommend it, but perhaps you could do something like this?
<?php
$layout_string = $this->get_config('statlayout');
echo "<script> var my_var = '" . $layout_string . "';</script>";
?>
<script> alert( my_var );</script>
If you've found another answer in the meantime, I'd be interested to know what you've come up with. :)
