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Ballet Posted July 8, 2009 Posted July 8, 2009 Where is the IPB documentation? Especially for the IPB 3. I remember there's something called doc.invisionpower.com in the past... (may be I am wrong >_< )
tranceandy Posted July 8, 2009 Posted July 8, 2009 Documentation hasn't been released yet and is still being worked on from the last I read. You may find the resources website useful until then or ask in the Peer-to-Peer Technical Support forum :D
Rikki Posted July 8, 2009 Posted July 8, 2009 The bulk of the IPB3 documentation is now delivered inline in the ACP - click the 'Get Help With This Page' button on any page to load it :) We'll be adding to what's available over time.
Ballet Posted July 8, 2009 Author Posted July 8, 2009 [quote name='Andy D' date='09 July 2009 - 03:15 AM' timestamp='1247080554' post='1822701'] Documentation hasn't been released yet and is still being worked on from the last I read. You may find the resources website useful until then or ask in the Peer-to-Peer Technical Support forum :D Thank you Andy. I am considering to renew the support so that I can access the resources website. Btw, what is peer-to-peer tech. support? Is that mean active customers supporting active customers?
Mark H. Posted July 8, 2009 Posted July 8, 2009 Yes, that's what it means. Forums in which active customers offer help to other active customers.
Ballet Posted July 8, 2009 Author Posted July 8, 2009 [quote name='Rikki' date='09 July 2009 - 03:17 AM' timestamp='1247080665' post='1822702'] The bulk of the IPB3 documentation is now delivered inline in the ACP - click the 'Get Help With This Page' button on any page to load it :) We'll be adding to what's available over time. Ya. This is a very nice feature of IPB3. It is using AJAX right? Very cool. The bad thing is sometimes when I need help, it shows me no help is available... I think this will be improved in future releases.
tranceandy Posted July 8, 2009 Posted July 8, 2009 [quote name='Ballet' date='08 July 2009 - 08:25 PM' timestamp='1247081127' post='1822710'] Thank you Andy. I am considering to renew the support so that I can access the resources website. Btw, what is peer-to-peer tech. support? Is that mean active customers supporting active customers? No problem Ballet and as Rikki reminded me documentation is in the Admin CP :) Yes the peer-to-peer tech. support is active customers supporting active customers :D
tobe81cwb Posted July 8, 2009 Posted July 8, 2009 the ACP Online Help it's to bad! Almost all the time it's 'no help is available' I wanna a detailed documentation, like how hooks works, how make skin, and BBCode using php. I know that I can find this information on forum, but I lost so many time searching the information on differents topics.
tranceandy Posted July 8, 2009 Posted July 8, 2009 [quote name='tobe81cwb' date='08 July 2009 - 11:20 PM' timestamp='1247091621' post='1822861'] I wanna a detailed documentation, like how hooks works, how make skin, and BBCode using php. The Admin CP help as far as I know is more about the setting of IPB :D
Jυra Posted July 9, 2009 Posted July 9, 2009 I'm hoping on some documentation on how to upload a skin to a forum. I found it pretty difficult. o.o
GStone Posted July 18, 2009 Posted July 18, 2009 Now let's just suppose that I want to find documentation on how to install the thing. Any idea where I'd find that?
Mark H. Posted July 18, 2009 Posted July 18, 2009 When you unzip the 3.0.1 file, there is a folder titled "documentation". In there is a document "START_HERE.html". Open that file in a browser.
dzbeebo Posted July 23, 2009 Posted July 23, 2009 ok if I wanted to develop a mod... isn't there some kind of hooks documentation or API that I can use?? and if there is one, where can I download it from?
teraßyte Posted July 23, 2009 Posted July 23, 2009 There are some developer articles available @ IPS Resources, check here: http://resources.invisionpower.com/index.php?appcomponent=cms&module=articles&category=135 :)
tranceandy Posted July 23, 2009 Posted July 23, 2009 What I would like to see is developer documentation for the total beginner Looking at the Developer Articles, in particularly Creating your own hooks and IP.Board 3 Plugins and Hooks in the IPS Company Blog, a lot just went right over my head I know about modifying files and skin templates and stuff I just want to understand how to do this with hooks Can anything be changed with a hook or is there a limitation to what can be done? It just looks a lot harder to use hooks then modifying files and skin templates, although from my understanding it is suppose to be easier?
bfarber Posted July 23, 2009 Posted July 23, 2009 [quote name='Andy D' date='23 July 2009 - 08:20 AM' timestamp='1248351656' post='1831498'] Can anything be changed with a hook or is there a limitation to what can be done? It just looks a lot harder to use hooks then modifying files and skin templates, although from my understanding it is suppose to be easier? There are limitations, namely you can only hook into the software at places it monitors the hooks at. It's not necessarily *easier* to use hooks for the developer. It is for the user, however, which is the main goal. Hooks are retained during upgrades, and don't require the person installing to do code-level modifications to make use of a hook.
Jaggi Posted July 23, 2009 Posted July 23, 2009 hmmm before we were promised full documentation for ipb forum and acp, and developer docs in pdf format. have they now been nuked? and wheres the php documentator page we were also promised... i do think the whole documentation part of ipb is lacking, it has become a complex application now. i do try to create artices in resources as i learn stuff but alot of things still needed. Maybe do a push by the ips staff (e.g. everyone has to do one everyday).
tranceandy Posted July 23, 2009 Posted July 23, 2009 [quote name='bfarber' date='23 July 2009 - 02:09 PM' timestamp='1248354564' post='1831563'] There are limitations, namely you can only hook into the software at places it monitors the hooks at. It's not necessarily *easier* to use hooks for the developer. It is for the user, however, which is the main goal. Hooks are retained during upgrades, and don't require the person installing to do code-level modifications to make use of a hook. Yes I understand that it's easier for the user which is the main thing :D
bfarber Posted July 23, 2009 Posted July 23, 2009 [quote name='Jaggi' date='23 July 2009 - 09:26 AM' timestamp='1248355573' post='1831577'] hmmm before we were promised full documentation for ipb forum and acp, and developer docs in pdf format. have they now been nuked? and wheres the php documentator page we were also promised... i do think the whole documentation part of ipb is lacking, it has become a complex application now. i do try to create artices in resources as i learn stuff but alot of things still needed. Maybe do a push by the ips staff (e.g. everyone has to do one everyday). Well, I could spend a day trying to get phpdocumentor working (I have before, unsuccessfully) or I could fix bugs and address support tickets. :) Developer documentation, unfortunately, has to wait until we have the time to address it. Edit - that said, there's nothing stopping YOU from running phpdocumentor on the files of course. ;)
Jaggi Posted July 23, 2009 Posted July 23, 2009 [quote name='bfarber' date='23 July 2009 - 06:28 PM' timestamp='1248370097' post='1831784'] Well, I could spend a day trying to get phpdocumentor working (I have before, unsuccessfully) or I could fix bugs and address support tickets. :) Developer documentation, unfortunately, has to wait until we have the time to address it. Edit - that said, there's nothing stopping YOU from running phpdocumentor on the files of course. ;) yea i could but i just can't let anyone else see it (as i'm sure if someone could be arsed they could use it to download all the ipb source and basically steal ipb) :P. tell me problems with phpdocumentor i might be able to help you out...
bfarber Posted July 23, 2009 Posted July 23, 2009 I got some php error thrown from phpdocumentor last time I ran it (of course I also had to give PHP like 3GB memory to work with to get that far). I'll run it again one of these days and see. And, as far as sharing, just don't include the source code in the output. I plan on putting it up publicly on the resource site once it's generated.
Jaggi Posted July 24, 2009 Posted July 24, 2009 you get rikki to skin it for me (cus it looks so horribly, terribly, digustingly rubbish by default) and i'll have a go at it later. Also every looked into doxygen, does mostly the same thing but you can search with it too and its binary so alot quicker than phpdocumentor.
Jaggi Posted July 24, 2009 Posted July 24, 2009 Parsing time: 217 seconds Conversion time: 416 seconds Total Documentation Time: 633 seconds done Operation Completed!! i iz l33t :P (with 2g of memory too).
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