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Adding on to or extending phpBugTracker should be easy for those with a knowledge of PHP and SQL. New developers are always welcome to join the project at http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/phpbt, or to simply submit patches, bug reports, or feature requests.

3.1. What's where?

Following is a list of the PHP files that make up phpBugTracker and the functionality contained within them:

attachment.php
Adding, deleting, and viewing attachment information.
bug.php
Adding, displaying, and editing bugs. This includes the detailed view of a bug, printable view, bug history, a view of the votes for a bug, and the code that emails users about bug changes.
config-dist.php
This file is used as a template for generating the configuration file during installation.
config.php
This file is empty in the distribution package. When phpBugTracker has been installed this is the main configuration file that contains the table name definitions and includes the required packages.
include.php
This file is included by every other script at page load, and contains page set-up such as creating the database connection, initializing the template object, and doing authentication checks.
install.php
This file is used during the installation process to gather configuration information from the user and to set up the database.
logout.php
This is used to end the user's session.
newaccount.php
The code for creating new accounts and emailing accout information to new sers is located here.
query.php
The bug search form is rendered and handled by this script, along with the resulting list of bugs from a query.
report.php
Various summary reports.
upgrade.php
Used when upgrading to a new verison of phpBugTracker. This file is changed with every release to include (mainly) the database queries required to upgrade the installation to the latest version.
user.php
User preferences and password changes are handled via this script.
admin/*.php
Each of these files handles a segment of the adminsitration. That is, group.php handles all the group adminstration, project.php is used for the project administration, etc.
inc/auth.php
Authentication class.
inc/functions.php
Supporting functions such as build_select(), etc.
inc/db/*.php
These files, named by database type, contain queries (such as left joins) that have different syntaxes among various database types.
languages/*.php
Named by language code, these files contain the localization of the text used throughout phpBugTracker.

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