Development

Developer documentation

• Git usage hints
• Translating
  • Gettext for developers
  • Gettext for translators
  • Translation server
• Tasks for new developers
• Developer guidelines
  • ChangeLog format
  • Documentation
  • Icons/Sprites Usage
  • Security pitfalls : guidelines on how to avoid them
  • New file template
• Quality Assurance (QA)
  • CodeSniffer usage hints
  • Continuous Integration
  • Unit Testing
• Generating pages and ajax responses in pma4
• The generic AJAX page loader
• Navigation
• Microhistory
• Setting a JavaScript breakpoint
• Import plugins description
• Export plugins description
• Generic plugin interface description
• Properties system description
• Authentication description
• Creating releases
• Releasing themes
• Drizzle for developers
• BBcode markup
• Short links
• English styleguide for written text presented the the user rather than code

API documentation

All used functions and files should be described in format which phpDocumentor uses. You can see generated documentation online - http://www.phpmyadmin.net/phpdoc/. The build log is available on http://www.phpmyadmin.net/phpdoc/build.log

What to contribute?

You want to start contributing to phpMyAdmin and have no idea where to start? You can find some ideas for newcomers which we collected for Google Summer of Code 2012, or just look at the feature tracker for some feature you like.

If you speak a language besides English, take a look at the translations page for to see if your languages needs improvement.

What is planned?

• See suggestions for phpMyAdmin 3 (which has of course been released, but some of the proposed features haven't been implemented).
• See suggestions for phpMyAdmin 4 (we are currently preparing for phpMyAdmin 4)
• UI plugins
• AJAX