Moodle Sandbox and Developer Tips & Tricks

For install scripts, it can be useful to add some specific settings for plugins.

There are a couple of options

Plugin settings via the command line

The cfg.php script allows settings to be set from the command line. Note that these can be overidden by a site admin in the front end

eg: to enable clamav and set the path

php admin/cli/cfg.php --name=antiviruses --set=clamav

php admin/cli/cfg.php --component=antivirus_clamav --name=pathtoclam --set="/usr/bin/clamscan"

Plugin settings via config.php

$CFG->antiviruses = 'clamav';

$CFG->forced_plugin_settings = ['antivirus_clamav' => ['pathtoclam' => '/usr/bin/clamscan']];