Docbooking the Phorum software

This week I have been looking for better ways to document Phorum than using the Wiki on the website and text-files in the distribution. I am very enthousiastic about what Docbook has to offer for this. Therefore I have started a project to put all Phorum documentation in the Docbook format.

Those who are interested can take a peek at the results so far on my development server. The first thing that is documented is the template system and the new version of the template language in Phorum 5.2.

Since you will probably be one of the users of the Phorum Manual, suggestions for what you want to see in there are of course welcome.

Beware that the documentation is for Phorum 5.2, so there might be things in there that do not apply to the current stable 5.1.x release of Phorum!

One big manual page
Split up in separate sections

I got this when try to access the "separate sections" version of the docbook.

Forbidden

You don't have permission to access /docs/html-chunks/ on this server.

[opensourceCMS.com]
[ongetc.com]
Chanh Ong

Sorry. I deleted the compiled chunk version of the manual. I just rebuilt the data, so now the chunked HTML manual is available again.

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Maurice Makaay
Phorum Development Team
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