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Basic concepts

  • Request lifecycle
    • Front controller
  • Routing
    • OCS routes
    • Extracting values from the URL
    • Matching subURLs
    • Default values for subURL
    • Registering resources
    • Using the URLGenerator
  • Dependency injection
    • Dependency injection
    • Controller injection
    • Using a container
    • How the container works
    • Use automatic dependency assembly (recommended)
    • Which classes should be added
    • Optional services
    • Accessing the container from anywhere
  • Controllers
    • Connecting a controller and a route
    • Getting request parameters
    • Responses
    • HTML-based Responses
    • Data-based responses
    • Miscellaneous responses
    • Security considerations
  • Middlewares
    • Global Middlewares
    • Dependency Injection Container Registration
    • Parsing annotations
  • Events
    • Overview
    • OCP event dispatcher
    • Hooks
    • Public emitter
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    • JavaScript
    • CSS
    • Theming support
  • Translations
    • PHP Backend
    • PHP Templates
    • JavaScript / TypeScript / Vue
    • Guidelines
    • Adding translations
    • Testing translations
  • Background jobs (Cron)
    • Types of background jobs
    • Writing a background job
    • Registering a background job
  • Caching
    • Types of caches
    • In-memory cache
    • Local cache
    • Distributed cache
  • Logging
    • Admin audit logging
  • Settings
  • Storage and database
    • Migrations
    • Database access
    • Configuration
    • Nextcloud filesystem API
    • AppData
  • Public share template
  • Testing
    • PHP
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