The XAPlayer secure player in Moodle

A tiny local plugin that shows XAPlayer’s protected videos only to students enrolled in a Moodle course. Works with Moodle 4.

Moodle doesn’t let you run server code inside a page, so you’ll create a three-file local plugin. It checks the student is signed in and enrolled, then shows the player.

Before you start#

1. In your XAPlayer panel, open Settings and create an API key. It is shown only once, so copy it right away.
2. Under Websites allowed to show your player, add your site’s full address, such as https://academy.example.com. If your site also opens with www, add that too.
3. Get the course ID: in Settings, pick the course in “Show the player on your website” and the ID is filled into the sample code. It is also the last part of the course page’s address in the panel.
4. Have file access (FTP or SSH) to your Moodle server.

Put the key in Moodle’s config.php#

// config.php in your Moodle folder, before require_once(__DIR__ . '/lib/setup.php');
$CFG->xaplayer_api     = 'https://en.xaplayer.ir/api/v1';
$CFG->xaplayer_api_key = 'xap_sk_...';

Create the plugin’s three files#

File: local/xaplayer/A new folder inside Moodle’s local folder

<?php
// local/xaplayer/version.php
defined('MOODLE_INTERNAL') || die();

$plugin->component = 'local_xaplayer';
$plugin->version   = 2026111400;
$plugin->requires  = 2022041900; // Moodle 4.0 or later

Install and use#

1. Sign in to Moodle as an admin. The Notifications page lists the new plugin; choose Upgrade Moodle database now.
2. In the Moodle course, add a URL resource with the address below. id is the Moodle course ID; course is the XAPlayer course ID.
3. Open the link with a student account.

https://moodle.example.com/local/xaplayer/view.php?id=MOODLE_COURSE_ID&course=XAPLAYER_COURSE_ID

If it doesn’t work#