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LifterLMS REST API v1.0.0-beta.4

• Load authentication handlers as early as possible. Fixes conflicts with numerous plugins which load user information earlier than expected by the WordPress core.
• Harden permissions associated with viewing student enrollment information.
• Returns a 400 Bad Request when invalid dates are supplied.
• Student Enrollment objects return student and post id’s as integers instead of strings.
• Fixed references to an undefined function.

• Update LifterLMS REST to v1.0.0-beta.3

Interface and Experience improvements during API Key creation

• Better expose that API Keys are never shown again after the initial creation.
• Allow downloading of API Credentials as a .txt file.
• Add required properties to required fields.

Updates

• Added the ability to CRUD webhooks via the REST API.
• Conditionally throw _doing_it_wrong on server controller stubs.
• Improve performance by returning early when errors are encountered for various methods.
• Utilizes a new custom property show_in_llms_rest to determine if taxonomies should be displayed in the LifterLMS REST API.
• On the webhooks table the “Delivery URL” is trimmed to 40 characters to improve table readability.

Bug fixes

• Fixed a formatting error when creating webhooks with the default auto-generated webhook name.
• On the webhooks table a translatable string is output for the status instead of the database value.
• Fix an issue causing the “Last” page pagination link to display for lists with 0 possible results.
• Don’t output the “Last” page pagination link on the last page.

LifterLMS REST API v1.0.0-beta.1

• A robust REST API is now included in the LifterLMS core.
• Create API Keys to consume and manage LifterLMS resources and students from external applications.
• Create webhooks to pass LifterLMS resource data to external applications (like Zapier!).
• The full API specification can be found at https://gocodebox.github.io/lifterlms-rest/.

Student management capabilities

• Explicit capabilities have been added to determine which users can create, view, update, and delete students.
• Admins and LMS Managers have all student management capabilities.
• Instructors and instructors assistants are granted limited view capabilities allowing them to only view students enrolled in their own courses/memberships.
• Added the list_users capability to the “Instructor” role, allowing instructor’s to better view and manage their assistant instructors.
• The new capabilities are: create_students, view_students, view_others_students, edit_students, edit_others_students, delete_students, & delete_others_students.

Updates

• Added new actions to help differentiate enrollment creation and update events.
• Added methods and logic for managing user management of other users.
• Added a filter llms_table_get_table_classes to LifterLMS admin tables which allows customization of the CSS classes applied to the <table> elements. Thanks @pondermatic!
• Added a filter llms_install_get_schema to the database schema to allow 3rd parties to run table installations alongside the core.
• Added the ability to pull “raw” (unfiltered) data from the database via classes extending the LLMS_Post_Model abstract.
• Added a bulk_set() method to the LLMS_Post_Model abstract allowing the updating of multiple properties in one command.
• Added comment_status, ping_status, date_gmt, modified_gmt, menu_order, post_password as gettable\settable post properties via the LLMS_Post_Model abstract.
• Links on reporting tables are now the proper color.
• The editable_roles filter which determines which roles can manage which other roles is now always loaded (instead of being loaded only on the admin panel).
• Updated LifterLMS Blocks to 1.5.2

Bug Fixes

• Fixed an issue preventing the user_url property from being retrieved by the get() method of the LLMS_Abstract_User_Data class.
• Fixed an issue causing the LLMS_Instructors::get_assistants() method to return assistants for the currently logged in user instead of the instructor of the instantiated object.
• Fixed an issue which would allow LMS Managers to edit and delete site administrators.

Deprecations

The following functions and methods have been marked as deprecated and will be removed from LifterLMS with the next major release.

• LLMSCourse::getchildrensections() use LLMSCourse::get_sections( ‘posts’ )” instead
• LLMSCourse::getchildrenlessons() use LLMSCourse::get_lessons( ‘posts’ )” instead
• LLMSCourse::getauthor()
• LLMSCourse::getauthorid() use LLMSCourse::get( “author” ) instead
• LLMSCourse::getauthor_name()
• LLMSCourse::getsku() use LLMS_Course::get( “sku” ) instead
• LLMSCourse::getid() use LLMS_Course::get( “id” ) instead
• LLMSCourse::gettitle() use getthetitle() instead
• LLMSCourse::getpermalink() use get_permalink() instead
• LLMSCourse::getuserpostmetadata()
• LLMSCourse::getuserpostmetasby_key()
• LLMSCourse::getcheckout_url()
• LLMSCourse::getstartdate() use LLMSCourse::getdate( “startdate” ) instead
• LLMSCourse::getenddate() use LLMSCourse::getdate( “enddate” ) instead
• LLMSCourse::getnextuncompletedlesson()
• LLMSCourse::getlessonids() use LLMSCourse::get_lessons( “ids” ) instead
• LLMSCourse::getsyllabussections() use LLMSCourse::get_sections() instead
• LLMSCourse::getshortdescription() use LLMSCourse::get( “excerpt” ) instead
• LLMSCourse::getsyllabus() use LLMSCourse::getsections() instead
• LLMSCourse::getuserenrolldate()
• LLMSCourse::getuserpostdata()
• LLMSCourse::checkenrollment()
• LLMSCourse::isuserenrolled() use llmsisuserenrolled() instead
• LLMSCourse::getstudentprogress() use LLMSStudent::get_progress() instead
• LLMSCourse::getmembership_link()