This is the new source for the Elefant documentation. Using Github, it becomes just as easy for contributors to help with documentation as it is with Elefant's source code.
To help by adding new docs, or making edits and corrections, fork this repository and commit your changes, then make a pull request to this project so they can be incorporated into the Elefant docs.
We've even added an edit link to the footer of each page, so that you can just click that to fork and edit any page right from your web browser!
This helps us track each change and makes it possible for as many contributors to work on it at the same time without worrying about squashing each others work.
Note: To use this app for your own project's documentation, fork it on Github here.
The documentation is written in PHP Markdown
(with some small additions). The pages are stored as .md files in the docs subfolder
using the following naming convention:
docs/1.0.md # The docs index page for the 1.0 version
docs/1.0-nav.md # The sidebar navigation for the 1.0 version
docs/1.0/*.md # Additional pages for the 1.0 version
The file names should be the "url-ified" equivalent of the page title,
as returned by URLify::filter().
For example:
Getting started with Elefant -> getting-started-with-elefant
The documentation is written in PHP Markdown with the following additions:
To link to a page within the documentation, you can use the following format:
[[Page title]]
This will link to /docs/${CURRENT_VERSION}/page-title with the link text
Page title, for example:
<a href="/docs/1.0/page-title">Page title</a>
To link to a child page within the documentation, you can use the following format:
[[>Page title]
This will link to /docs/${CURRENT_VERSION}/${CURRENT_PAGE}/page-title with
the link text Page title, for example:
<a href="/docs/1.0/current-page/page-title">Page title</a>
You can also ensure the page is a sibling of the current page like this:
[[:Page title]
And of course if a page is nested, you can specify its path via:
[[Parent page / Child page]]
This will create a link like the following:
<a href="/docs/1.0/parent-page/child-page">Child page</a>
Targets, are different audiences the documentation may be targeting. This could be different languages (PHP, JavaScript), or platforms (PC, Mac, iOS), or anything else.
Targets help to eliminate information that needs explaining to only one group, but that would otherwise have to be repeated for the others as well.
Here is the syntax to specify targets for different content:
Show this content to everyone.
--- Platform: Linux ---
Show this content to Linux users.
--- Platform: Mac ---
Show this content to Mac users.
--- Platform: Windows ---
Show this content to Windows users.
--- /Platform ---
More content...
This will create a "Platform" select box in the top-right of the page contents with options for Linux, Mac, and Windows. The first part is the name of the type of target, following by the target name.
The first one is the default selected for new visitors, but it will set a cookie to remember your preferences across site visits in the same browser.