Introduction

This book is targeted at Mapbender developers and will cover useful topics not needed by administrators or users of Mapbender installations.

Things you should now

There are a couple of things you should be familiar with in order to contribute to Mapbender:

• Object-Orientated PHP: We’re using PHP 5.3 which offers full object orientation. No simple scripts anymore.

• Symfony: This is what we build upon. So read The Book and learn about controllers, templating and the other cool things.

• Docblock annotations: We use ApiGen to generate code documentation.

• JavaScript: We use jQuery a lot and especially the jQuery UI widget factory. These are essential to understand to write maintainable JavaScript code.

Installation

The installation procedure from Git is described in the chapter Git-based installation.

Getting Help

Malinglists:

• Mapbender-Developer and -User mailinglist

Libraries and frameworks:

• Symfony framework

• PHPUnit documentation

• Composer documentation

• General GitHub documentation

• GitHub pull request documentation

Topics

• Quick primer on using Git
• Request / Response Workflow
• Understanding Elements