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Moodle Block Template

This is a template for Moodle blocks.

It is used by Moosh (http://moosh-online.com/) to generate new block plugins.

This template assumes that the block is using a textual content type by default. If you want your block to display a list of items (using $this->content->items and $this->content->icons instead of $this->content->text), change the derived class of the block, from extends block_base to extends block_list. For more information: https://docs.moodle.org/dev/Blocks#Additional_Content_Types.
Go to Settings > Site Administration > Development > XMLDB editor and modify the module's tables.
Modify version.php and set the initial version of you module.
Visit Settings > Site Administration > Notifications, you should find the module's tables successfully created
Go to Site Administration > Plugins > Blocks > Manage blocks and you should find that this newblock has been added to the list of installed modules.
You may now proceed to run your own code in an attempt to develop your module. You will probably want to modify block_newmodule.php and edit_form.php as a first step. Check db/access.php to add capabilities.

We encourage you to share your code and experience - visit http://moodle.org

Good luck!

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Missing check for not null content?

In the get_content method of block_newblock.php, is a check for existing content missing?

if ($this->content !== NULL) {
    return $this->content;
}

http://docs.moodle.org/dev/Blocks

...there is a check that returns the current value of $this->content if it's not NULL; otherwise we proceed with "computing" it. Since the computation is potentially a time->consuming operation and it will be called several times for each block (Moodle works that way internally)...

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