Welcome to the official wiki of the BIGACE CMS. Our future goal is to provide you with everything you need to install, upgrade, get started with and really push BIGACE to its limits. Feel free to register and add your own notes, clarifications, and other helpful hints to the docs.

• Install BIGACE - Step-by-Step to your new BIGACE driven website
• Upgrade your System - Step-by-Step to the next BIGACE Version
• Plugins & Extensions - a list of existing addon's, plugins, templates and modules
• User Manual - BIGACE Administration features and further information about using your System

Quick links:

• Templates - create your own page design
• Smarty Tags - for templates customization & dynamic data
• Smarty - Tips & Tricks - basic tips and enhanced usage
• PHP API - use the core API to extend BIGACE

Tutorials:

• Templates - create a design, Step-by-Step
• Portlets - creation and customization of Portlets
• Smarty - using templates in external applications
• Search - integrate search in your design
• Plugins - how to build installable Plugins
• Modules - a short introduction

Core API:

• Access database - use the BIGACE db framework
• Update container - package format to install BIGACE extensions
• Classes - can easily be used in your code
• Core Libraries - important BIGACE core functions
• Translations - enable your extension for multiple languages

More stuff:

• Portlets - create them for use in your templates
• Editor Plugin - integrate a new editor with BIGACE
• Admin Themes - customize the administration look & feel
• Zend Framework - extend your applications with this rich API
• Smarty - in pages content

Code Snippets:

• Fetch a Category Tree and loop above its entries
• BIGACE AJAX - fetch item information without reloading pages
• "Previous page" & "Next page" - create these links using Smarty TAGs

• URL Rewriting - SEO friendly (beauty) URLs
• LightHTTPD - for those using this light-weight webserver
• IIS - using BIGACE on Windows servers
• User attributes - configure the available user attributes
• Languages - create new languages
• Updates - administrate and install updates
• Community configuration - understand and change the Community configuration
• FCKeditor - internals, configuration and updating
• Captcha - changing the used implementation
• SSL - for authentication and administration
• .htaccess - protect your system and increase your data security
• Config files - the most important configurations at a glance
• Database tuning - Expert level: increase the speed of item calls
• Move to a new Server - transfering BIGACE to a new host
• UTF8 - UTF8 and migration infos (for upgrading to 2.5)
• FileLogger - write log entries to a file instead of the database

Writing Wiki Articles:

• Construction site - create new (in work, not reviewed) articles here
• First Steps - Read how to start
• Author - Infos about the people behind the documentation
• Wiki syntax - All the definition you need to create a wiki article
• Playground - Test your Wiki syntax before starting your first article

Core Development:

• Editor Framework - how to add a new content editor (like FCKeditor, TinyMCE …)
• Building BIGACE - the ANT scripts
• CVS - fetch the latest snapshot
• Item permission - the SQL queries
• TODO - ideas for BIGACE, the Website, Documentation …
• Deprecated sources - do not use these any longer

Release BIGACE:

• Release BIGACE - tasks to execute, when a new version is released
• Demo - create a new package for online hosting & testing