New feature: restricted time for participation for moodleoverflow forums

backup/moodle2/backup_moodleoverflow_stepslib.php

@@ -48,7 +48,7 @@ protected function define_structure() {
             'name', 'intro', 'introformat', 'maxbytes', 'maxattachments', 'timecreated', 'timemodified',
             'forcesubscribe', 'trackingtype', 'ratingpreference', 'coursewidereputation', 'allowrating',
             'allowreputation', 'allownegativereputation', 'grademaxgrade', 'gradescalefactor', 'gradecat',
-            'anonymous', 'allowmultiplemarks', 'limitedanswer',  ]);
+            'anonymous', 'allowmultiplemarks', 'la_starttime', 'la_endtime', ]);
 
         // Define each element separated.
         $discussions = new backup_nested_element('discussions');

db/install.xml

@@ -28,7 +28,8 @@
         <FIELD NAME="anonymous" TYPE="int" LENGTH="2" NOTNULL="true" DEFAULT="0" SEQUENCE="false"/>
         <FIELD NAME="needsreview" TYPE="int" LENGTH="2" NOTNULL="true" DEFAULT="0" SEQUENCE="false"/>
         <FIELD NAME="allowmultiplemarks" TYPE="int" LENGTH="1" NOTNULL="true" DEFAULT="0" SEQUENCE="false"/>
-        <FIELD NAME="limitedanswer" TYPE="int" LENGTH="10" NOTNULL="false" SEQUENCE="false"/>
+        <FIELD NAME="la_starttime" TYPE="int" LENGTH="10" NOTNULL="false" SEQUENCE="false"/>
+        <FIELD NAME="la_endtime" TYPE="int" LENGTH="10" NOTNULL="false" SEQUENCE="false"/>
       </FIELDS>
       <KEYS>
         <KEY NAME="primary" TYPE="primary" FIELDS="id"/>

db/upgrade.php

@@ -307,6 +307,20 @@ function xmldb_moodleoverflow_upgrade($oldversion) {
         // Moodleoverflow savepoint reached.
         upgrade_mod_savepoint(true, 2024031105, 'moodleoverflow');
     }
+    if ($oldversion < 2024061700) {
+        // Rename the first setting, to have a start and endtime for the limited answer mode.
+        $table = new xmldb_table('moodleoverflow');
+        $field = new xmldb_field('limitedanswer', XMLDB_TYPE_INTEGER, '10', null, null, null, null, 'allowmultiplemarks');
+        if ($dbman->field_exists($table, $field)) {
+            $dbman->rename_field($table, $field, 'la_starttime');
+        }
+        // Create the field for the end time.
+        $field = new xmldb_field('la_endtime', XMLDB_TYPE_INTEGER, '10', null, null, null, null, 'la_starttime');
+        if (!$dbman->field_exists($table, $field)) {
+            $dbman->add_field($table, $field);
+        }
+        upgrade_mod_savepoint(true, 2024061700, 'moodleoverflow');
+    }
 
     return true;
 }

discussion.php

@@ -60,8 +60,7 @@
     $multiplemarks = true;
 }
 // Setting of limitedanswer. Limitedanswertime saves the timestamp, until the limitedanswer is on (0 if off).
-$limitedanswersetting = $DB->get_record('moodleoverflow', ['id' => $moodleoverflow->id], 'limitedanswer');
-$limitedanswertime = $limitedanswersetting->limitedanswer;
+$limitedanswersetting = $DB->get_record('moodleoverflow', ['id' => $moodleoverflow->id], 'la_starttime, la_endtime');
 
 // Get the related coursemodule and its context.
 if (!$cm = get_coursemodule_from_instance('moodleoverflow', $moodleoverflow->id, $course->id)) {
@@ -163,7 +162,7 @@
 
 echo '<div id="moodleoverflow-posts"><div id="moodleoverflow-root">';
 
-moodleoverflow_print_discussion($course, $cm, $moodleoverflow, $discussion, $post, $multiplemarks, $limitedanswertime);
+moodleoverflow_print_discussion($course, $cm, $moodleoverflow, $discussion, $post, $multiplemarks, $limitedanswersetting);
 echo '</div></div>';
 
 echo $OUTPUT->footer();

lang/en/moodleoverflow.php

@@ -345,12 +345,17 @@
 $string['allowmultiplemarks'] = 'Multiple marks?';
 $string['allowmultiplemarks_help'] = 'A post can be marked as helpful or solved. Within a discussion, only one post can be marked as helpful/solved. Click the checkbox to mark multiple posts as helpful/solved.';
 $string['limitedanswerheading'] = 'Limited Answer Mode';
-$string['limitedanswer'] = 'Start in a limited answer mode?';
-$string['limitedanswerwarning_setup'] = 'You already activated the limited answer mode and it expired. Activating this mode another time is highly NOT recommended.';
-$string['limitedanswerwarning_answers'] = 'There are already answered posts in this moodleoverflow. Activating limited answer mode now is highly NOT recommended';
-$string['limitedanswer_help'] = 'If a Moodleoverflow starts in limited answer mode, students can not answer to questions until the set up date';
-$string['limitedanswer_helpicon_student'] = 'This Moodleoverflow is in a limited answer mode. Posts can not be answered until {$a->limitedanswerdate}';
-$string['limitedanswer_helpicon_teacher'] = 'This Moodleoverflow is in a limited answer mode until {$a->limitedanswerdate}. See Settings for more information';
+$string['la_starttime'] = 'Start Time students can answer';
+$string['la_endtime'] = 'End time students can answer';
+$string['limitedanswerwarning_setup'] = 'You already activated the limited answer mode and it expired.';
+$string['limitedanswerwarning_answers'] = 'There are already answered posts in this moodleoverflow.';
+$string['limitedanswerwarning_conclusion'] = 'Activating limited answer mode might confuse users.';
+$string['la_starttime_help'] = 'Students can not answer to questions until the set up date';
+$string['la_endtime_help'] = 'Students can not answer to qustions after the set up date';
+$string['limitedanswer_info_start'] = 'This Moodleoverflow is in a limited answer mode.';
+$string['limitedanswer_info_starttime'] = 'Posts can not be answered until {$a->limitedanswerdate}.';
+$string['limitedanswer_info_endtime'] = 'Posts can not be answered after {$a->limitedanswerdate}.';
+$string['limitedanswer_helpicon_teacher'] = 'This can be changed in the settings of the Moodleoverflow.';
 // Templates.
 $string['reputation'] = 'Reputation';
 $string['action_remove_upvote'] = 'Click to remove upvote';