Patch for Moodle 2 to enable subplugins in Local plugins. Copyright Richard Taunton Sixth Form College, UK. Licenced under GNU GPL.

0020-MDL-26943-Added-submodule-support-for-local-plugins.patch

From 6c6ed071f4891a877323fc503a56ee42d66b929c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Mark Johnson <mark.johnson@tauntons.ac.uk>
Date: Wed, 23 Mar 2011 12:16:25 +0000
Subject: [PATCH 20/78] MDL-26943 Added submodule support for local plugins

---
 lib/moodlelib.php |   16 ++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 16 insertions(+)

diff --git a/lib/moodlelib.php b/lib/moodlelib.php
index a285ea1..2405a6d 100644
--- a/lib/moodlelib.php
+++ b/lib/moodlelib.php
@@ -7610,6 +7610,19 @@ function get_plugin_types($fullpaths=true) {
 
         // local is always last!
         $info['local'] = 'local';
+        $locals = get_plugin_list('local');
+        if(!empty($locals)) {
+            foreach($locals as $local => $localdir) {
+	            if (file_exists("$localdir/db/subplugins.php")) {
+	                $subplugins = array();
+	                include("$localdir/db/subplugins.php");
+	                foreach ($subplugins as $subtype=>$dir) {
+	                    $info[$subtype] = $dir;
+	                }
+	            }
+                
+            }
+        }
 
         $fullinfo = array();
         foreach ($info as $type => $dir) {
@@ -7647,6 +7660,9 @@ function get_plugin_list($plugintype) {
         // mod is an exception because we have to call this function from get_plugin_types()
         $fulldirs[] = $CFG->dirroot.'/mod';
 
+    } else if ($plugintype === 'local') {
+        // Same with local
+        $fulldirs[] = $CFG->dirroot.'/local';
     } else if ($plugintype === 'theme') {
         $fulldirs[] = $CFG->dirroot.'/theme';
         // themes are special because they may be stored also in separate directory
-- 
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