Development Documentation for Gallery 2

A beginner's guide to Gallery

• Gallery's Model-View-Controller Structure
• How Gallery forms work - End-to-end

Specific Components:

• How to create new Color Packs
• How to create new Image Frames
• How to use Captcha
• Progress Bar
• ItemAdd / ItemAddPlugin / ItemAddOption - Components involved in the Add / Upload Process

Nitty Gritty:

• Locking
• Session Handling
• URL Rewrite (URL Generator for short URLs)
• Events

More Documents:

• Module Development Tutorial
• Overview of Concepts: A short writeup of some concepts used in G2.
• Theme Template System (Blocks, Callbacks, Templates, ...)
• Gallery2:ModuleLinks How does my module make itself visible?
• Gallery2:Embedding
• Add Table Tutorial
• Alter Table Tutorial
• Some explanations creating New Tables and GalleryStorage
• How to create database tables in G2
• Kirill's Dev Tutorial (a little out of date though)
• How To ... (find and link small snippets here)
• Design Documents
• User Stories
• How to upload a module to the community repository