This was the official startpage of the Bigace documentation for quite a while. We decided to change it to this new version, to easify your reading experience.

• 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
• Developer manual - Extending Bigace with your code
• Administrator manual - Administrate your Bigace installation
• Team - Internal stuff (start writing for the wiki, release bigace ….)

Quick links:

• Templates - create your own page design
• Smarty Tags - for templates customization & dynamic data
• Smarty Introduction - basic usages and links
• PHP API - use the core API to extend BIGACE

Tutorials:

• 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:

• Editor Framework - integrate a new editor
• Admin Themes - customize the administration look & feel
• Zend Framework - extend your applications with this rich API

Code Snippets:

• Fetch a Category Tree and loop above its entries
• BIGACE AJAX - fetch item information without reloading pages

• 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

Wiki:

• Writing Wiki Articles

Core Development:

• Building BIGACE - the ANT scripts
• Subversion - SVN - fetch the latest snapshot
• TODO - ideas for BIGACE, the Website, Documentation …

Release BIGACE:

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