Welcome to Piwik Developer Zone
Trac is the place to follow along with the development of Piwik. Piwik is an open source web analytics software that aims to be an alternative to Google analytics.
You can track changes in the Timeline section of this site. There is also an RSS feed and a mailing list for those interested.
Bugs reports are also kept on Trac. If you are looking to submit a bug report, please register or login and head on over.
User documentation
The Piwik User Documentation is hosted on the main website piwik.org:
Developer documentation
- API Documentation
Documentation about the REST API. Features, tutorial on how to build a query in 2 minutes, list of all the methods available, etc.- Tutorial How to get the top 10 keywords of yesterday in XML?
- API Reference Complete list of the modules and methods available in the API
- How to call the API Internal call (in php using Piwik source code) or external call (http request over internet)
- Plugin development
- Simple: How to write a plugin? Tutorial explaining how to build a simple plugin.
- Helper Functions How to execute SQL queries, how to add entries in the Menu, get information about the user, the current website, the date selected, etc.
- List of hooks Find out the list of growing hooks (events your plugin can listen to) available in Piwik
- Advanced: How to write a plugin? Tutorial using the example of the GeoIp plugin, a plugin that gives the precise country and city of the visitors.
- Developers: more documentation
- Get started: How to setup Eclipse + PHP + Debug
- Understand Piwik: Piwik API Reference, Database schema overview, Sequence diagram of a request to get a report in piwik
- Other resources: Coding standard, Security checklist, How to test piwik user interface, Thoughts about the development process
Mailing lists
- piwik-hackers Archives, Subscribe, Search the archives
This mailing list is used to discuss Piwik internals, ask questions about the architecture, discuss new ideas, etc.
- piwik-svn Archives, Subscribe, Search the archives
This mailing list notifies all the comits to the SVN server
- piwik-trac Archives, Subscribe, Search the archives
This mailing list notifies all the changes to tickets in trac (new ticket, closed, modifications, new comments, etc.)
SVN Access
You can also browse the svn online using trac.
You can download the last official version or use the latest cutting edge from the SVN.
Check out the current development trunk with:
svn co http://dev.piwik.org/svn/trunk
