DokuWiki Development

If you want to contribute to DokuWiki and join the development you should read this page.

Well 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 from DokuWiki you should have a look at the bugtracker.

1. Overview
   1. Coding Style
   2. Git – Obtaining the code and working with Git¹⁾
   3. Communication
   4. Directory Layout
   5. Locking
   6. Environment – global variables and defines
   7. Action Modes
   8. Parser
   9. Metadata
   10. Security
   11. fulltextindex
   12. Unit Testing
   13. Patches
2. Plugins
   1. Plugin File Structure
   2. Common Plugin Functions
   3. Action Plugins
      • Event System
      • Event Handlers
      • Events Overview
      • Example 1
      • Example 2
   4. Syntax Plugins
   5. Helper Plugins
   6. Renderer Plugins
   7. Admin Plugins
   8. The Toolbar
   9. Plugin Cookbook
   10. Plugin Programming Tips
3. Templates
4. Configuration
5. Localization
6. CSS
7. JavaScript
8. Preload
9. Internal Libraries
   1. UTF-8 String handling
   2. E-Mail Sending
   3. Zip and Tgz compression/Decompression
   4. HTTP Client Library
   5. RSS Parser
   6. JSON Parser/Writer
   7. GeSHi Syntax Highlighting
10. XMLRPC
11. Scalability
12. Further Resources
    1. Development API Reference²⁾
    2. Stable API Reference³⁾
    3. Daily Snapshots
    4. Git Webinterface for browsing the source and patches
    5. Hall of Fame - all DokuWiki contributors
    6. Callgraph