Finding developer resources
CiviCRM has excellent documentation for the basic needs of most people who want to create a good CiviCRM installation.
As tasks and requirements get more and more specific, guidance becomes a little bit trickier to find. Luckily, CiviCRM has a thriving online community that can help through forums as well as an IRC channel where you can communicate with the core team. Support does not come much better than that.
How to do it…
In this recipe, we'll look at what resources are available to beginner and experienced developers.
The following table shows the CiviCRM developer continuum. Progressively more skills, time, and commitment is required as the tasks become more and more complex.
|
Task |
Skills needed |
Resources |
|---|---|---|
|
Configuring the CiviCRM core and its components |
An understanding of CiviCRM |
CiviCRM books, forums, blogs, and meetups |
|
Basic customization of report templates and search templates |
Knowledge of template structures |
CiviCRM books, forums, blogs... |
