No documentation can be 100% complete and Backpack's is no different, sorry for that. There are plenty of people that follow the StackOverflow tag "backpack-for-laravel" and are glad to help you out. Post your question there and please include:
- (A) what you did
- (B) what you expected to happen
- (C) what happened
- (D) what have you already tried to fix it?
Open an issue and tell the community you are willing to submit a PR. We usually end up with better solutions when we talk about it and everybody pitches in with their opinion. Plus, some features might be better presented as a separate package, a tutorial or a code snippet.
PR Rules:
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One pull request per feature - If you want to do more than one thing, send multiple pull requests.
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PSR-2 Coding Standard - The easiest way to apply the conventions is to install PHP Code Sniffer. It's ok to push non-PSR-2 code, but know that StyleCI will convert it after the merge.
Step 1. Open an issue. Please include:
- (A) what you did
- (B) what you expected to happen
- (C) what happened
- (D) what have you already tried to fix it?
Step 2. Submit a PR. If you have a solution for it and want to help, you can submit a Pull Request. Tell us you are willing to do that. It takes a little more time from you, but:
- your fix is guaranteed to be merged a lot faster;
- you'll become one of the Backpack contributors; welcome to the party! :-);
- you'll not just be helping yourself and the maintainers of Backpack, you'd be helping thousants of Backpack developers;
If you've never submitted a PR before, don't worry, it's not that difficult. Read this tutoral and the rules above. I promise, you'll enjoy sending PRs after a while :-)
Thank you, thank you, thank you! You can:
- add a StackOverflow filter to receive emails for backpack-for-laravel questions;
- install Gitter and help people out in real-time;
- star Backpack\CRUD on Github so the repository can get more views;
- purchase a commercial license, if you use Backpack to make money;
- stock up on cheaper commercial licenses before we bump the price to $39;
- ALL OF THE ABOVE. Groundbreaking, I know, right? :-)
Happy coding!