Developing phpMyAdmin
phpMyAdmin is (as the name says) written in PHP and uses MySQL. Besides this, we also need people skilled in HTML, JavaScript, and CSS, as these are all parts that make our user interface. You don't have to be an expert in all these areas - even knowing only one of them, you can still provide substantial help in creating or debugging some features.
Source Code Repository
The phpMyAdmin Git repository is located at
https://github.com/phpmyadmin/phpmyadmin.git. You can browse it online using
GitHub.
Note that phpMyAdmin uses Composer to manage library dependencies. When using Git development versions, you must manually run Composer.
Please see the documentation for details.
To get a copy of the code, you can use the following command:
git clone https://github.com/phpmyadmin/phpmyadmin.git
Contributing Code
The easiest way to contribute is to fork our code on GitHub and submit a pull request once you are done with some feature/bugfix. Please keep your changes as small as possible; do not include unrelated changes like formatting, whitespace, and new line characters.
Our developers will then merge your code or will guide you through improving the patch. The patch will be, of course, committed under your name and email, so that you receive appropriate credits. Generally, after merging several good patches, you will be offered write access to our repository.
Simple Tasks to Start
If you are looking for some simple tasks where you can start, check out newbie tagged issues in our tracker where you can find issues which might be a good starting point for you.
Coding Standards
Standards should be obeyed in all cases when possible. Generated content should be valid XHTML 1.0 and CSS. PHP code should match PEAR Coding Standards and documented using phpDocumentor. More information about coding is available on our wiki.
Documentation and Other Resources
If you don't know much about Git, you can get some basic facts in Wikipedia or reference in the comprehensive book Pro Git.
More documentation for developers can be found in the following places:
Several statistics about the repository are available: