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How To Get Moodle To Substitute Hobby For City
Charles Kelly's Moodle Things

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What Does This Do?

• In profiles, people input their hobby or interest instead of what city they live in.

Why the Hack?

• At our university, we wanted to replace the name of the city (not useful to us) with what the students liked to do (useful to us).
• Now when showing the list of "participants," along with their names, you see a note about their hobby/interest.
• It makes it more interesting for fellow participants, too.

Change these $strings

• The only thing you have to do is edit the "moodle.php" file in the language packs.
• Here are the only 2 that I edit, since these are the only languages we have installed:
  • English and Japanese.

/lang/en_utf8

Add the following to the end of the file, just before the ?>

// Hobby Instead of City CK 2007-03-29
$string['city'] = 'Hobby / Interest / Free Time';
$string['location'] = 'Hobby / Interest';
$string['missingcity'] = 'What do you do in your free time?';
// END OF Hobby Instead of City CK 2007-03-29

moodledata/lang/ja_utf8/moodle.php

Add the following to the end of the file, just before the ?>

// Hobby Instead of City CK 2007-03-29
$string['city'] = 'Hobby / Interest / Free Time';
$string['location'] = 'Hobby / Interest';
$string['missingcity'] = '¼ñÌ£¤ò½ñ¤¤¤Æ¤¯¤À¤µ¤¤¡£';
// END OF Hobby Instead of City CK 2007-03-29

Note

• In Moodle 1.8+ (April 11, 2007) the following is true.
  • $string['location'] =
    • This has two uses:
      1. to describe what students register in the "city" variable when displayed on the profile page.
      2. to ask the location of a file to upload