I need to create an extern application that creates, modifies and enroll users of Moodle.
I've been reading moodle documentation but its more for front administrators that for developers. How can I do to create a user? which tables hold obligatory information about them? and how do I enroll existing users to moodle?
You should use web services rather than using SQL - https://docs.moodle.org/dev/Creating_a_web_service_client
core_user_create_users and enrol_manual_enrol_users Once you have that set up, use something like this:
// First get the token. $tokenurl = 'http://www.yourmoodlesite.com/login/token.php?username=testuser&password=xx&service=myservice'; $tokenresponse = file_get_contents($tokenurl); $tokenobject = json_decode($tokenresponse); if (!empty($tokenobject->error)) { echo $tokenobject->error; die(); } // Then call the create user and enrol functions // Remember to add the question mark after "server.php" because http_build_query() won't add it on its own and you'll end up with a 404 error $baseurl = 'http://www.yourmoodlesite.com/webservice/rest/server.php?'; // Then add these parameters to the url. $users = array(); // See the api documentation /admin/webservice/documentation.php // for core_user_create_users for building the $users array // e.g. // $users = array(array( // 'username' => 'lecapitaine', //Username policy is defined in Moodle security config // 'password' => 'EngageNCC-1701', //Plain text password consisting of any characters // 'firstname' => 'William', //The first name(s) of the user // 'lastname' => 'Shatner', //The family name of the user // 'email' => 'jimmy.k@enterprise.com', // 'lang' => 'en', // )); $params = array( 'wstoken' => $tokenobject->token, 'wsfunction' => 'core_user_create_users', 'moodlewsrestformat' => 'json', 'users' => $users, ); $url = $baseurl . http_build_query($params); $response = file_get_contents($url); $newusers = json_decode($response); // Newusers will be an array of objects containing the new user ids. $enrolments = array(); // See the api documentation /admin/webservice/documentation.php // for enrol_manual_enrol_users for building the $enrolments array // Then enrol the users. $params = array( 'wstoken' => $tokenobject->token, 'wsfunction' => 'enrol_manual_enrol_users', 'moodlewsrestformat' => 'json', 'enrolments' => $enrolments, ); $url = $baseurl . http_build_query($params); $response = file_get_contents($url); $enrolled = json_decode($response); As answered here creating moodle users and register them on courses programatically by me =3. This works completely extern to moodle.
$servername = 'localhost'; $username = 'username'; $password = 'password'; $dbname = 'moodle'; $u_moodle = 'theusernameyouwant'; $hp_moodle = password_hash('thepasswordyouwant', PASSWORD_DEFAULT); ///IMPORTANT! $name = 'first name'; $lname = 'last name'; $email = 'e@m.ail'; ///This have to be verified by you as we're inserting it directly $course = '123'; //Id that you put in moodle admin, not the real id $conn = new mysqli($servername, $username, $password, $dbname); $sql = "INSERT INTO 'mdl_user' (auth, confirmed, mnethostid, username, password, firstname, lastname, email) VALUES ('manual', 1, 1, '$u_moodle', '$hp_moodle', '$name', '$lname', '$email')"; // auth = 'manual', confirmed = 1, mnethosti