====== DokuWiki Development ======

You are welcome to contribute to DokuWiki and join the development.

What you want to contribute is of course up to you---you should scratch your own itches first. If you need some ideas of what is missing you should have a look at the [[bugs|bugtracker]] or on the [[devel:ideas|idea pages]]. You could also consider [[devel:adoption|adopting a plugin or template]]. Begin by reading the [[#Getting Started]] chapter.


===== Getting Started =====

  - [[devel:Git]] -- Obtaining the code and working with Git((the VCS used for DokuWiki development))
    - [[devel:github|Working with Github Pull Requests]]
  - [[devel:coding_style|Coding Style]]
  - [[devel:Composer]]
  - Editor Setup
    - [[devel:VIM]]
    - [[devel:IntelliJ Idea]] (or [[https://www.jetbrains.com/phpstorm/|PhpStorm]]) {{http://www.jetbrains.com/img/logos/logo_intellij_idea.png?80&nolink&recache}}
  - [[devel:Security]]
  - Testing
    - [[devel:unittesting|Unit Testing]]
    - [[devel:browserstack|BrowserStack]] browser testing {{browserstack-logo.png?100&nolink}}
  - [[devel:Patches]]
  - [[devel:Debugging]]

===== The Development Manual =====

  - [[devel:Overview]], walk through of how a page request is served
    - [[devel:dirlayout|Directory Layout]]
    - [[devel:Environment]] -- global variables and defines
      * Accessing [[devel:request_vars|Request Variables]]
      * [[devel:Session handling]]
      * [[devel:Preload]]
    - [[devel:Autoloader]] 
    - [[devel:Callgraph]]
    - [[devel:Logging]]
    - [[devel:Locking]]
    - [[devel:Action Modes]]
    - [[devel:Authentication]]
    - [[devel:caching|Caching facilities]]
    - [[devel:Parser]]
    - [[devel:Metadata]]
    - [[devel:fulltextindex|Fulltext Index]]
  - [[devel:Plugins]]
    - [[devel:Plugin File Structure]]
    - [[devel:Common Plugin Functions]]
    - [[devel:Action Plugins]]
      * [[devel:events|Event System]]
      * [[devel:events_list|Events Overview]]
      * [[devel:event_handlers|Event Handlers]]
      * Examples of [[devel:event handlers code]]
    - [[devel:Syntax Plugins]]
    - [[devel:Helper Plugins]]
    - [[devel:Renderer Plugins]]
    - [[devel:Admin Plugins]]
    - [[devel:Remote Plugins]]
    - [[devel:Auth Plugins]]
    - [[devel:CLI Plugins]]
    - [[devel:unittesting#plugin_and_template_tests|Plugin and Template Unittests]]
    - [[devel:toolbar|The Toolbar]]
    - [[devel:Plugin Programming Tips]]
  - [[devel:Templates]]
    - [[template:Starter]] template -- Basic building block for new templates
    - [[devel:Menus]]
    - [[devel:style.ini|style.ini]] -- CSS: loading styles and setting variables
  - [[devel:Configuration]]
  - [[devel:Localization]]
  - [[devel:CSS]]
    - [[devel:LESS]] preprocessor
  - [[devel:JavaScript]] (jQuery, jQueryUI)
    - [[devel:jqueryfaq|jQuery FAQ for Plugin Developers]]
  - [[devel:SVG]]
  - Internal Libraries
    - [[devel:utf-8|UTF-8 String handling]]
    - [[devel:request_vars|Request (GET/POST) variable handling]]
    - [[devel:mail|E-Mail Sending]]
    - [[devel:httpclient|HTTP Client Library]]
    - [[devel:simplepie|RSS Parser]]
    - [[devel:form|Forms]]
  - Composer Libraries
    - [[devel:geshi|GeSHi Syntax Highlighting]]
    - [[devel:phparchive|Zip and Tgz Compression/Decompression]]
  - [[devel:Remote API]]
    - [[devel:XMLRPC|XML-RPC]]
    - [[devel:JSONRPC|JSON-RPC]]
  - Further Resources
    - [[https://codesearch.dokuwiki.org/xref/dokuwiki/|Development API Reference]]((built daily))
    - [[devel:snapshots|Daily Snapshots]]
    - [[devel:releases|Developers' Release notes]]
    - [[https://github.com/dokuwiki/dokuwiki|Git Webinterface]] for browsing the source and patches
    - [[https://www.openhub.net/p/dokuwiki/contributors|Hall of Fame]] -- all DokuWiki contributors

===== Development Team Guides =====

  - [[devel:coredevs|How to become a Core Developer]]
  - [[devel:release_process|Release process and information on building a release]]

===== Ideas and brainstorms =====

  * Planning an external [[devel:Security Audit]] of DokuWiki
  * [[devel:Ideas|Ideas with some concepting]] that could be picked up and implemented by (new) DokuWiki developers.
  * Plans for more radical [[devel:Template changes]]
  * DokuWiki [[devel:Refactoring]]
  * [[devel:Farm]] - ideas for [[tips:farm|tips:farm]]
  * Some remarks on [[devel:Memory footprint reduction]]
  * Brainstorm about [[devel:scalability]], [[devel:scalability_proposal]]
  * Brainstorm [[devel:Tagline]] for dokuwiki.org