Official Development Documentation

[ManagerJosh]

It's been well over a year now… Time to bring this up again. From what I see nothing has changed.

http://xenforo.com/community/forums/development-tutorials-and-resources.33/ ?

 

[dmnkhhn]

You can't expect the community to deliver content with knowledge that only (or mostly) the developers have.

If anything, this would be the area for documentation that I would expect: http://xenforo.com/community/forums/official-development-tutorials-and-resources.41/
The latest thread there is from Feb. 2011

 

[feldon30]

http://xenforo.com/community/forums/development-tutorials-and-resources.33/ ?

As was explained in this thread, and as we've so clearly seen at vBulletin.org, a forum of random threads is not acceptable for documenting a product in active development.

The information quickly gets stale and out of date. There's no way to maintain the information if the author of a thread moves on to other projects. And none of the information is linked together in any meaningful way. Each guide ends up like its own island with half the useful information down on page 7 in the comments.

A wiki or other solution is essential.

 

[mrGTB]

The Wiki idea sounds good. That's how MyBB do it: http://wiki.mybb.com/index.php/Main_Page

 

[Slavik]

Why not set up an unofficial community built wiki? Then when KAM get around to the documentation they will already have a great place to start from

Hell, here we go, I will start adding some stuff in tonight to get the ball rolling

http://xenforo.wikia.com/

 

[ragtek]

if anybody wants, he can c&p my dev threads...

 

[ForestForTrees]

A while ago, Brogan wrote the following:

I know dev' doc's have/are being worked on, but like everything else, there are so many other things it's a matter of finding the time.

Has any progress been made on this?

It seems like XenForo has a huge reservoir of smart admins who could turn into addon-developers, adding value to the product. I know that I would like to start developing addons, but with the the overall sophistication of XenForo's software (the way that it compiles templates, MVC, Zend Framework, Routes, etc.) I don't know where to begin. The type of documentation that is provided by WordPress and many other packages would make a world of difference.

 

[Radi]

Any progress on the doc/wiki page?

 

[Paul B]

I have merged two threads to prevent multiple postings on similar threads.

 

[ForestForTrees]

Note that the following was posted in 2011:

It's been well over a year now… Time to bring this up again. From what I see nothing has changed.

Anyone reading this thread may be interested in the following thread currently active on The Admin Zone:
https://theadminzone.com/threads/why-doesnt-xenforo-have-developer-documentation.133407/

It has had 14 posts so far today.

I made the following for it and I must admit I'm a bit proud of it. I'm pretty stunned that Xenforo is so far behind on documentation.

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It would be nice if some Xenforo rep could make some sort of statement on this so that we know that staff take this rather embarassing omission seriously.