A little script used to create an archive of a course from the terminal just like you'd do from the GUI. It is used yearly to create an archive of the course, keeping the students in it. A copy is created with a new year and all the students removed.
Copy the two scripts inside the moodle root directory.
Caution
Ownership must be moodle:www-data.
The Moodle root directory must be writable by www-data.
script_get_courses.phpshows you all courses that aren't part of Archive category. It allows you to save the IDs tocourse_ids.txt.script_update_courses.phpAllows you to copy all courses contained in the previous .txt file OR to update one with a given ID.
Must be run by user www-data as in
sudo -u www-data php script_get_courses.phpor
sudo -u www-data php script_update_courses.php 81 82 84 51