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Class aliases

Class aliases

Maintained by Mark Sharp

Development utility for users of VSCode. Aliased classes are not picked up by VSCode, so this prevents VSCode red-lining valid code.

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Supports Moodle 4.5-5.1 See all versions

Latest release: 9 months ago

Installations: 2

Downloads (last 90 days): 12

Frankenstyle name: local_classalias

Plugin type: Local plugins

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2.1 (2025092901)

Moodle 5.1

Uploaded on Monday, 6 October 2025 at 09:47 (GMT+0)

2.1

Plugin type: Local plugins

Frankenstyle component name: local_classalias

Version build number: 2025092901

Version release name: 2.1

Maturity: Stable

Supported Moodle versions: 5.1

Repository URL (Git): https://github.com/sharpchi/moodle-local_classalias

Repository branch:

Repository tag: v2.1

Issue/bug tracker URL: https://github.com/sharpchi/moodle-local_classalias/issues

Class Aliases

This is intended for development purposes only. Do not use on Production sites; it's not needed.

Moodle has started namespacing lots of old classes using the class_alias function.

Trouble is VSCode doesn't recognise these class aliases as they are only parsed at runtime (apparently this isn't a problem in PHPStorm), this will mean that VSCode will red-underline these classes.

To work-around this, this plugin uses "extends" to map the old class name with the new one. It isn't intended for the code to see these extends, so they are simply listed in a file that is not read. VScode will pick up on the extends and won't show the red underline anymore.

Eventually, these class_alias mappings will be dropped, so do migrate any instances you find in your code, rather than relying on this mapping.

1.1 (2024101701)

Moodle 4.5, 5.0

Uploaded on Friday, 5 September 2025 at 09:52 (GMT+0)

1.1

Plugin type: Local plugins

Frankenstyle component name: local_classalias

Version build number: 2024101701

Version release name: 1.1

Maturity: Stable

Supported Moodle versions: 4.5, 5.0

Repository URL (Git): https://github.com/sharpchi/moodle-local_classalias

Repository branch:

Repository tag: v1.1

Issue/bug tracker URL: https://github.com/sharpchi/moodle-local_classalias/issues

Class Aliases

This is intended for development purposes only.

Moodle has started namespacing lots of old classes using the class_alias function.

Trouble is VSCode doesn't recognise these class aliases as they are only parsed at runtime (apparently this isn't a problem in PHPStorm).

To work-around this, this plugin uses "extends" to link the old class name with the new one. It isn't intended for the code to see these extends, so they are simply listed in a file that is not read. VScode will read them though.

Eventually, these class_alias mappings will be dropped, so do migrate any instances you find in your code, rather than relying on this mapping.

1.0 (2024101700)

Moodle 4.5, 5.0

Uploaded on Wednesday, 3 September 2025 at 08:28 (GMT+0)

1.0

Plugin type: Local plugins

Frankenstyle component name: local_classalias

Version build number: 2024101700

Version release name: 1.0

Maturity: Stable

Supported Moodle versions: 4.5, 5.0

Repository URL (Git): https://github.com/sharpchi/moodle-local_classalias

Repository branch:

Repository tag:

Issue/bug tracker URL: https://github.com/sharpchi/moodle-local_classalias/issues

Class Aliases

This is intended for development purposes only.

Moodle has started namespacing lots of old classes using the class_alias function.

Trouble is VSCode doesn't recognise these class aliases as they are only parsed at runtime (apparently this isn't a problem in PHPStorm).

Eventually, these class_alias mappings will be dropped, so do migrate any instances you find in your code, rather than relying on this mapping.

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