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Friendica Addon development

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2022-06-25T10:10:01+00:00

Friendica Addon development Please see the sample addon ‘randplace’ for a working example of using some of these features. Addons work by intercepting event hooks - which must be registered. Modules work by intercepting specific page requests (by

Autoloader with Composer

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2022-06-24T13:43:01+00:00

Autoloader with Composer Friendica uses Composer to manage dependencies libraries and the class autoloader both for libraries and namespaced Friendica classes. It’s a command-line tool that downloads required libraries into the vendor folder and makes any namespaced class in

Account Basics

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2022-06-25T09:10:23+00:00

Account Basics Registration Not all Friendica sites allow open registration. If registration is allowed, you will see a “Register” link immediately below the login prompt on the site’s home page. Following this link will take you to the site registration page. The strength of our network is that lots of different sites are all completely compatible with each other. If the site you’re visting doesn’t allow registration, or you think you might prefer another one, there is a

Using Composer

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2022-06-24T13:45:20+00:00

Using Composer Friendica uses Composer to manage dependencies libraries and the class autoloader both for libraries and namespaced Friendica classes. It’s a command-line tool that downloads required libraries into the vendor folder and makes any namespaced class in

Where to get started to help improve Friendica

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2022-08-24T04:39:00+00:00

Where to get started to help improve Friendica Do you want to help us improve Friendica? Here we have compiled some hints on how to get started and some tasks to help you choose. A project like Friendica is the sum of many different contributions. Very different skills are required to make good software, not all of them involve coding!

First Steps

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2022-04-22T05:27:17+00:00

First Steps Once you have installed Friendica successfully on your server, you might consider some customizations to make the experience better. Subscribe to Relay Services Finding interesting contacts in a new social network like the Fediverse can be hard. To get potentially interesting content onto your Friendica node without subscribing to random people on different node of the Fediverse, you can subscribe your node to a relay service. These relay services take all public postings from sub…

Settings

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2022-06-25T06:28:12+00:00

Settings If you are the admin of a Friendica node, you have access to the Admin Panel where you can configure your Friendica node. Overview In the main page of the admin panel you will see an information summary about your node. Queues The three numbers shown are respectively: - The retry queue: These outgoing messages couldn’t be received by the remote host, and will be resent at longer intervals before being dropped entirely after 30 days. - The deferred queue: These internal tasks failed…

Abstracts

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2022-07-05T14:40:57+00:00

Abstracts Using BBCode for formatting your postings, you can add an abstract, a short summary, to your postings. Especially in the case of Twitter (and other length limited networks to which Friendica exports your postings via the API) Friendica will try to automatically decide which part of the posting is relevant. But often you as the author of a posting knows better.

Friendica Storage Backend Addon development

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2022-06-24T13:39:57+00:00

Friendica Storage Backend Addon development Storage backends can be added via addons. A storage backend is implemented as a class, and the plugin register the class to make it available to the system. The Storage Backend Class The class must live in

Twitter API

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2022-06-16T16:09:37+00:00

Twitter API Overview Friendica provides the following endpoints defined in the official Twitter API reference. Authentication is the same as described in Using the APIs. Entities These endpoints use the Friendica API entities. Different behaviour * screen_name: The nick name in Friendica is only unique in each network but not for all networks. The users are searched in the following priority: Friendica, StatusNet/GNU Social, Diaspora, pump.io, Twitter. If no contact was found by this wa…

Friendica BBCode tags reference

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2022-06-09T08:51:26+00:00

Friendica BBCode tags reference Friendica is using the BBCode markup language to format postings and comments. Alternatively the admin of a Friendica node can activate an addon to also support Markdown. How a rich text formatted posting or comment will be displayed in other projects of

Bugs and Issues

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2020-11-25T17:49:17+00:00

Bugs and Issues If your server has a support page, you should report any bugs/issues you encounter there first. Reporting to your support page before reporting to the developers makes their job easier, as they don't have to deal with bug reports that might not have anything to do with them. Reducing the workload in this way helps us get new features faster. You can also contact the

Chats

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2022-06-25T06:59:09+00:00

Chats There are two possibilities to use chat on your friendica site * IRC Chat * XMPP/Jabber IRC-Chat Addon After activating the addon, you can find the chat at example.com/irc (if your Friendica nodes domain name is example.com). Note: you can use this chat without any login at your site so that everyone could use it.

Domain-Driven-Design

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2022-06-24T14:06:32+00:00

Domain-Driven-Design Friendica uses class structures inspired by Domain-Driven-Design programming patterns. This page is meant to explain what it means in practical terms for Friendica development. Inspiration * * * *

How To Move Classes to src

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2022-06-24T13:48:02+00:00

How To Move Classes to src Friendica uses Composer to manage autoloading. This means that all the PHP class files moved to the src folder will be automatically included when the class it defines is first used in the flow. This is an improvement over the current require usage since files will be included on an actual usage basis instead of the presence of a

Events

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2021-01-12T18:31:29+00:00

Events A special form of postings are events. The events you and your contacts share can be found at /events on your node. To get there go to your wall and follow the tab “events” Depending on the theme you are using, there might be an additional link from the navigation menu to this page.

Export / Import of followed Contacts

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2022-02-11T09:03:13+00:00

Export / Import of followed Contacts In addition to move your account you can export and import the list of accounts you follow. The exported list is stored as CSV file that is compatible to the format used by other platforms as e.g. Mastodon, Misskey or Pleroma. Export of followed Contacts

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2021-05-24T05:54:31+00:00

Friendica Documentation and Resources User Manual * General functions - first steps * [Account Basics](help/Account-Basics) * [New User Quick Start](help/Quick-Start-guide) * [Creating posts](help/Text_editor) * [BBCode tag reference](help/BBCode)

Friendica Installation

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2024-10-15T10:57:53+00:00

Friendica Installation We've tried very hard to ensure that Friendica will run on commodity hosting platforms - such as those used to host Wordpress blogs and Drupal websites. We offer a manual and an automatic installation. But be aware that Friendica is more than a simple web application.

Making Friends

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2022-06-24T15:37:35+00:00

Making Friends Friendship in Friendica can sometimes take on different meaning. But let’s keep it simple; you want to be friends with somebody. How do you do it? The Directories Friendica has two different kinds of “address book”. The directory of the Friendica server you are registered on and a global directory to which your and other Friendica servers submit account information.

Using SSL with Friendica

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2022-06-24T15:05:28+00:00

Using SSL with Friendica Disclaimer This document has been updated in November 2016. SSL encryption is relevant for security. This means that recommended settings change fast. Keep your setup up to date and do not rely on this document being updated as fast as technologies change!

Themes

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2022-06-22T06:54:22+00:00

Themes To change the look of friendica you have to touch the themes. The current default theme is frio but there are numerous others. Have a look at the community contributed theme repository for some of the themes (and theme customizations) the community has created. In case none of them suits your needs, there are several ways to change a theme.

Friendica translations

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2020-09-27T17:21:24+00:00

Friendica translations Overview The Friendica translation process is based on gettext PO files. Basic worflow: * xgettext is used to collect translation strings across the project in the authoritative PO file located in view/lang/C/messages.po

Vagrant for Friendica Developers

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2022-10-17T05:30:00+00:00

Vagrant for Friendica Developers Getting started Vagrant is a virtualization solution for developers. No need to setup up a webserver, database etc. before actually starting. Vagrant creates a virtual machine for you that you can just run inside VirtualBox and start to work directly on Friendica.