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Earlier we looked at how you can extract a list of all the $CFG variables in your Moodle code. Now that's not of much use! We need to know where in the code all these variables hide. I feel some spooky awk a coming on.

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If you have ever had to deal with language packs you will know how much of a pain they can be. I regularly interact with 9 Moodle language packs and I don't like doing that much. For some reason, can't remember why now, we gave people the raw language string files (PHP code files) to translate and they translated these files and sent them back. Only these people are not PHP coders and they make mistakes. Here is my list of what goes wrong and how to solve.

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Sometimes Moodle introduces some nice new configuration variables and I like to make sure that I know what they are and where they are. So to begin my investigation without heading off to the web I use the following command to get me a sorted list of the $CFG variables.

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Today I got the urge to see how many logins we had on some of our Apache servers in November. We host more than one moodle site on one server and so I wanted the total number of logins we handled. As usual this ended up becoming an awkward but useful one liner.

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