How to get all courses on moodle?

Question

I need to show all moodle courses in menu listing. Can anyone suggest me that how can I get all courses using php code or moodle inbuilt functions.

Thanks

Answer 1

Assuming you are writing code to be run within Moodle, you can use the get_courses() function defined within lib/datalib.php. For example:

<?php
require_once(PATH_TO_MOODLE_ROOT . '/config.php');
$courses = get_courses();
print_r($courses);

will print out a data-dump of the returned array, showing details of all the courses in your Moodle site. This example is obviously not appropriate to use on a production site!

If you check the function definition in lib/datalib.php you will see the options available for restricting the result set to particular fields or controlling the sort order.