Posted by MattF in Extensions on March 29th, 2016
Hello extension writers!
At phpBB’s conference in Prague last year, nickvergessen created a tool that makes getting an extension project started super easy!
phpBB Extension Skeleton
The Extension Skeleton is an extension that you install in your development phpBB board. Once installed, you can use it to generate the starter files and directories for your own extensions.
The Extension Skeleton will ask you for some basic information about the extension you want to create, such as the name, author information, requirements, and what type of components it will use (listeners, controllers, styles, template events, unit testing, etc.). It will then generate an extension package based on your needs. It will be a working “skeleton” of the simple Acme Demo extension, and will be ready for you to begin to edit and update with your own code.
It can be accessed via Graphic User Interface through a link in your forum’s navbar
It can also be accessed from the Command Line Interface with the command:
$ bin/phpbbcli.php extension:create
The Extension Skeleton is a great little tool that every extension developer should have in their toolkit. It simplifies and expedites the mundane task of starting a new extension, and ensures you have a correctly configured set of composer, PHP and style files with which to begin coding your extension.
Happy coding developers!
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Posted by naderman in Development with the tags area51, Development, Rhea on March 26th, 2016
On October 28th, 2014, we published phpBB 3.1 Ascraeus, the culmination of nearly 8 years of development since phpBB 3.0—an eternity when it comes to web development. We learned our lesson from trying to build a major feature release over a timespan that saw major changes in web technologies; while our roadmap had to change frequently, none of the progress was made available to you—our users. When we finally released phpBB 3.1, I announced that phpBB would from now on see feature releases on an annual basis.
It has now been one year and 6 months since I made this statement. Our most recent release has been phpBB 3.2 Rhea 3.2.0 Beta2, on March 7th 2016. So we missed our goal, but we’re well on the way to reaching a new stable feature release before summer this year. We’ve been making great progress with tweaking our workflows to more strictly adhere to the schedule in the future.
As the Development Team Leader, I updated you much too infrequently on development progress, partly due to having many other tasks to also focus on. Unless you follow our development forums at Area51, or our social media accounts on Facebook or Twitter, you are unlikely to have heard of our recent 3.2 Beta releases. As these responsibilities exceed what a single person can do well, Marc Alexander stepped up in February to take over the Development Team Lead position. From now on, I will be responsible for more frequently informing you of all developments regarding phpBB, as its new Product Manager.
We are looking forward to your feedback on the Beta releases and upcoming final release candidates of phpBB 3.2 Rhea.We cannot produce a stable final product without your testing and bug reporting. Download Beta packages from our archive at https://download.phpbb.com/pub/release/3.2/unstable/3.2.0-b2/. Please keep in mind that you should not run this version of phpBB on your live sites yet, and no support will be offered until the RC phase.
If you’d like to get involved with phpBB development to help us finish new features faster, check out the information available on Area51. And lastly, if you’d like to stay up to date on phpBB development progress, follow this blog!
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