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  1. Moodle
  2. MDL-16583 Clean up JavaScript usage in HEAD
  3. MDL-17084

Allow JavaScript to set user preferences

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    • Sub-task
    • Status: Closed
    • Minor
    • Resolution: Fixed
    • 2.0
    • 2.0
    • JavaScript
    • None
    • MOODLE_20_STABLE
    • MOODLE_20_STABLE

    Description

      Sometimes JavaScript will need to set user preferences, for example to remember whether the user likes certain things collapsed or expanded. To this end, I propose a new script:

      .../lib/ajax/setuserpref.php?sesskey=XXXX&pref=[prefname]&value=[value]

      To avoid security problems, this scrip will only process an update if you have previously called a PHP function

      user_preference_allow_ajax_update($name, PARAM_XXX);

      This sets $USER->ajax_updatable_user_prefs[$name] = PARAM_XXX;

      and sesskey will only update user preferences where the appropriate key is set in the session, and it will clean the value as specified there before doing the update.

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              timhunt Tim Hunt
              timhunt Tim Hunt
              David Woloszyn, Huong Nguyen, Jake Dallimore, Meirza, Michael Hawkins, Raquel Ortega, Safat Shahin, Stevani Andolo
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                24/Nov/10