Adrian Greeve authored Apr 24, 2013 and Damyon Wiese committed Jul 09, 2013

Add support for additional name fields and flexible formating of
user names.

MDL-29938 throw exception when a criteria is repeated, used self instead classname when possible, return only not deleted users

MDL-29938 Fix typo bypassing some code + remove misplaced code in deprecated function + some code cleaning

MDL-29938 don't validate return user info against PARAM_USERNAME as PARAM_USERNAME only apply to manual authentication (and web service)

MDL-35543 modify get_users to get_users_by_field (more complex search function named get_users will be implemented later - focussing yet on retrieving user info for a specified field)

unifies core_user_get_users_by_id and get_course_user_profiles

Conflicts:

	user/lib.php

MDL-32581 support additional format field with all text field in extrnal lib function + new possible ws params to decide how format is returned (which are stored in a singleton)

Conflicts:

	group/externallib.php

MDL-31762 username should be lowercase and check against PARAM_USERNAME when creating/updating user by web service

Currently there is no validation on user info (firstname/lastname) in user/editadvanced_form.php

New PARAM_COMPONENT, PARAM_AREA and PARAM_PLUGIN + fixing of hopefully all current incorrect parameter types. This should help with diagnosing of incorrectly named 3rd party plugins too.

1. moodle_user_get_course_participants_by_id web service to get user details in course context
2. Fixed the proformance issues of get_users_by_id web service

MDL-27759 user webservice - added new PARAM for timezone PARAM_TIMEZONE, to validate timezone input in webservice while deling with user information

MDL-26774 fix web service function moodle_user_get_users_by_id. It now matches viewing profile / editing profile. It suppose to work for current user / other user / admin. It is not returning the information of course profile.

message MDL-24694 removed references to user->emailstop. the column itself will be removed in a later version

webservice MDL-18655 add new capability moodle/user:viewalldetails allowing to see all user information. This capability is set up copying the current moodle/user:update assignations

MDL-23774 deleting of admins is a restricted operation, also external lib should not delete the account that is calling it; user pictures are not a problem any more