Extensions

Welcome to phpBB’s extension development tutorial and documentation.

• Tutorial: Getting Started
  • Introduction
  • Extension Folder
  • Composer JSON
• Tutorial: Key Concepts
  • Introduction
  • Dependency injection
  • PHP files
  • Template files
  • Language files
  • Javascript and CSS files
• Tutorial: Events and Listeners
  • Introduction
  • Template Events & Listeners
  • PHP Core Events & Listeners
• Tutorial: Controllers and Routes
  • Introduction
  • Controllers
  • Routing
• Tutorial: Migrations
  • Introduction
  • Migrations
• Tutorial: Modules
  • Introduction
  • Creating Control Panel Modules
  • Installing Control Panel Modules
• Tutorial: Notifications
  • Introduction
  • Creating a Notification Type
  • Notification Type Class Functions
  • Sending a Notification
  • Updating a Notification
  • Deleting a Notification
  • Marking a Notification
  • Advanced Lessons
• Tutorial: Permissions
  • Introduction
  • Create permissions
  • Define permissions
  • Wire up permissions
  • Checking permissions
  • Understanding Permissions
• Tutorial: Authentication
  • Introduction
  • Authentication Providers
  • OAuth Providers
• Tutorial: Parsing text
  • Database fields
  • Parsing text with BBCodes & smilies
• Tutorial: Working With BBCodes
  • Introduction
  • Toggle BBCodes On / Off
  • Executing PHP Code With BBCodes
  • Template Parameters
  • Registering Custom Variables
  • Enable Text Formatter Plugins
• Tutorial: Template syntax
  • Introduction
  • Assigning data in PHP
  • Syntax elements
• Tutorial: Advanced Lessons
  • Introduction
  • Adding a PHP event to your extension
  • Adding a template event to your extension
  • Using installation commands in ext.php
  • Using service collections
  • Using the phpBB finder tool
  • Using service replacement
  • Using service decoration
  • Replacing the phpBB Datetime class
  • Extension version checking
• Tutorial: Testing
  • Introduction
  • Unit Tests
  • Unit tests with database interaction
  • Functional testing
  • Continuous integration with Github Actions
• Updating a phpBB 3.0 modification to an extension
  • Extension Structure
  • Database Changes, UMIL replaced by Migrations
  • Include extension’s language files
  • File edits - Don’t edit! Use Events and Listeners!
  • Compatibility
• What’s New for phpBB 3.2
  • Introduction
  • New Language Object
  • New BBCode Engine
  • New Text Reparser
  • New File Uploader
  • New Font Awesome Icons
  • Updated Notifications
  • Updated Twig Syntax
  • Updated Symfony Services
  • Updated INCLUDECSS
  • Additional Helpers
• What’s New for phpBB 3.3
  • Introduction
  • PHP 7
  • Symfony 3.4
  • Twig 2
  • jQuery 3
  • Extension Installation Error Messages
• phpBB Skeleton Extension
  • How to install
  • Create an extension
  • Documentation
• Events List
  • PHP Events
  • Template Events
  • ACP Template Events
• Database Types List
  • Introduction
  • Numeric
  • Decimal
  • Text
  • Unicode Text
  • Miscellaneous