OK, well since the documentation i am looking for is mostly related to development with Xoops, I am happy to help write something.

I think that there needs to be some clarity about who the documentation is for since XOOPS has so many types of users.

There are;-
1) people who use XOOPS (non-programmers, but moderately technical).
2) people who develop XOOPS itself and modules for distribution
3) people who are commercially tasked with "make our install of XOOPS do x", this is usually in a web job of somekind where XOOPS is used.

So I was looking for documentation on getting started with writing your own modules quickly (since i am in category 3).

I have managed to figure out most of what i need to know so far, just working on blocks .. I will let someone know soon as there is some documentation to see.

Jez

On the left hand side of this site there is a section marked Documentation.
The first link in there is books, followed by Wiki and then FAQs. As a new user of Xoops, books is not a link i really need when looking for documentation.

It would be good to have some links here to where the actual documentation and PDFs are. The FAQs are pretty limited and not very helpful when starting out, the wiki is very incomplete, making it fairly tedious to use and the forums are dealing with peoples specific issues rather than giving general info on getting going with xoops.

I don't want to seem like i am just complaining, but if you want people not to post bad questions that would ellicit the reply "Did you search for it", then making the docs easier to find and better organised would be great.

Many thanks, your help is much appreciated... i will take a look at the theme stuff.

Thanks very much although that did not work.
I am guessing that something should be writing out the $xoops_module_header var, but i do not see what, since it is after the inclusion of the header.
I am not seeing the JS tag output to the HTML or the functionality of the JS file showing up in my page.

Also I did search for it!
I am not trying to be critical, only point out that it could be more easy to find.

For instance, i searched on the forum here, and in the PDF;- ModuleBuilding.pdf
Also in the Coding standards documentation, the developer wiki .... really i did search.., perhaps having so many places that need to be searched is why i could not find it.

Is there a single piece of documentation? If not how would i find out whether the info i need is in "Theme anatomy" or "Module Building"????????

In the module building pdf there is seriously no mention of javascript atall, yet that is what i would expect to be doing if i was writing javascript, don't you agree?

Hi everyone,

I have gone through much of the online (wiki / forum) and offline (PDF) documentation and i cannot find mention of javascript anywhere.

One place i would have expected something was in the module development documentation but nothing.

Maybe i am missing something (would not be the first time), but i would like to know how I would add a JS file to a module (i.e. one that i am developing), and how i would call it to be included in my head section of the page.

Any tips or pointers to which document has it would be much appreciated.

Thanks.