Coding Guidelines

phpBB’s coding guidelines are maintained in its source code repository. You can find the latest versions on area51:

• Rules for Olympus (3.0.x) code

• Rules for Ascraeus (3.1.x) code

• Rules for Rhea (3.2.x) code

• Rules for Proteus (3.3.x) code

These documents are automatically updated when changes are made to them.

• PHP Coding Guidelines
  • 1. Defaults
  • 2. Code Layout/Guidelines
  • 4. Templating
  • 5. Character Sets and Encodings
• JavaScript Guidelines
• CSS Coding Guidelines
  • The Importance of a Styleguide
  • Some General principles
  • Meaningful Whitespace
  • Commenting
  • Introduction
  • Syntax and Formatting
  • Naming Conventions
  • CSS Selectors
  • Specificity
• HTML Coding Guidelines
  • Idiomatic HTML Guidelines