Possible to Customize Profile Page on Moodle without touching core?

Question

Is there a way to customize the profile page in moodle without editing the core files? Is it possible to override the page and keep the edits within the theme files? similar to how overriding a renderer keeps all the edited render files inside of the theme folder?

Answer 1

You could use the the $CFG->customscripts setting to use a copy of profile.php :

create a customscripts folder

yourmoodlesite/customscripts

Then set

$CFG->customscripts = 'yourmoodlesite/customscripts';

Then create a user folder in customscripts and copy profile.php so you have

yourmoodlesite/customscripts/user/profile.php

and remove or comment out the require...config.php line.

Now Moodle will use /customscripts/user/profile.php when viewing a profile.

Have a look yourmoodlesite/config-dist.php for more details