Using Moodle create users and enroll them in courses via SQL

Question

I need to create an external application that creates, modifies and enrol users of Moodle.

I\'ve been reading Moodle documentation but its more for front administrat

Answer 1

You should use web services rather than using SQL - https://docs.moodle.org/dev/Creating_a_web_service_client

1. Enable web services /admin/search.php?query=enablewebservices
2. Enable rest protocol /admin/settings.php?section=webserviceprotocols
3. Add a service /admin/settings.php?section=externalservices
   • add short name = myservice
   • enable = true
4. Click on functions for the service.
5. Add core_user_create_users and enrol_manual_enrol_users
   • You'll need to look at the api documentation for the parameters
   • /admin/webservice/documentation.php
6. Create a role - /admin/roles/manage.php
7. Choose a user level + system context
8. Add capability - webservice/rest:use
9. Create a testuser and add to the role created above
10. Create a token for the user /admin/settings.php?section=webservicetokens

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);