Moodle JavaScript Cookbook

Make Moodle e-learning even more dynamic by learning to customize using JavaScript. With over 50 recipes, this Cookbook allows you to add effects, modify forms, include animations, and much more for an enhanced user experience.

Key Features

• Learn why, where, and how to add to add JavaScript to your Moodle site
• Get the most out of Moodle's built-in extra‚Äîthe Yahoo! User Interface Library (YUI)
• Explore a wide range of modern interactive features, from AJAX to Animation
• Integrate external libraries like jQuery framework with Moodle

Book Description

What you will learn

• Get started with the Yahoo! User Interface Library
• Add validation features to your Moodle forms
• Retrieve and process data from external sites in a range of formats using AJAX
• Add feature rich spreadsheet-style data tables‚Äîsorting, paging, and inline editing
• Add auto-complete functionality to text boxes and combo boxes
• Make use of advanced navigation controls‚Äîdrop-down menus, tabbed panels, and modal windows
• Use animation techniques‚Äîfading, scrolling, and resizing
• Integrate external libraries such as JQuery framework, MooTools framework, and Dojo framework
• Initialize a YUI DataSource

Who this book is for

This book is aimed at developers and administrators comfortable with customizing Moodle with the use of plugin modules, themes, and patches who want to make their site more dynamic. If you have prior knowledge of HTML, PHP, and CSS and a good working knowledge of the underlying structure of Moodle, then this book is for you. No prior experience with JavaScript is needed.