XMLDB Documentation
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In this page you will find links to all the XMLDB related documentation. Currently you will find documents both belonging to the XMLDB category and to the general Developer and Installation categories plus some interesting external links.
Introduction
- Introduction: Where the general idea of the XMLDB whole thing is explained.
- Roadmap: An overall view of the process of implementing the XMLDB subsystem, with details for each point of the process.
Installation
- Installing MSSQL for PHP: One short manual about the steps needed to successfully add MSSQL support to PHP.
- Installing Oracle for PHP: One short manual about the steps needed to successfully add Oracle support to PHP.
- Installing Moodle: The guide to install Moodle (once you have the LAMP platform working in your server.
Developing
- XMLDB Architecture: One introduction about the XMLDB code, its organisation and style of work.
- XMLDB Editor: One short manual about the XMLDB Editor, do and don't...
- DDL functions: One list of the new XMLDB Data Definition functions and their usage.
- DML functions: One list of the available Data Manipulation functions and their usage.
- Coding guidelines: The main coding guidelines and, more exactly, the database structures section that you must follow carefully in order to produce good cross-db code.
Bugs and new features
- XMLDB related bugs
- XMLDB related new features
- Developers forum
- Databases forum
