Get All Files

Hi there,

While I was building my website, I got stuck on a problem. My employer wants me to build a page in which all files of all courses are listed, and, depending on whether or not the user is a guest or a registered one, allow downloading. I studied Joomdle code a bit and I haven't found a good solution yet. I am writing in the hope of having skipped over some method that would solve my problems.

Is there anything like a nice "getAllFilesFromAllCourses" function? If not, is there any feasible workaround? The only solution I can think of is
1. get all courses
2. for each course, get mods
3. for each mod, get the associate resources
4. iterate on each resource whether it is a file or not

I know this solution would actually slow down incredibly the page. Neither, Moodle 2.8 files structure helps me.
Any Ideas?
Thanks in advance

As you guessed, that solution would be too slow.

I guess you could create a new web service to get all files, doing the procedure you describe in a function.
This could be slow, too, as it would need to fecth all Moodle files.