Create a Skeleton Extension

Generate your extension’s foundation in seconds. No more setting up files by hand — Skeleton builds it all for you, with clean, fully documented templates based on phpBB’s best practices. Before you begin, be sure to review the 📖 [Skeleton Extension Documentation], 🛡️ [Extension Validation Rules], and 🛠️ [Coding Guidelines].

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Extension packaging

Vendor name:
Starting with a letter, lowercase letters and numbers only

Package name:
Starting with a letter, lowercase letters and numbers only

Display name:
This is the name (title) of the extension

Description:

Version:
e.g. 1.0.0-dev

Date of the extension:
YYYY-MM-DD, default: today

Homepage of the extension:

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Authors

Author name:
Must not be empty

Author email:

Author homepage:

Author role:

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Requirements

PHP requirement of the extension:
default: >=7.1.3

Minimum phpBB requirement of the extension:
default: >=3.3.0

Maximum phpBB requirement of the extension:
default: <4.0.0@dev

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Components

Database

Database migration

Front End (HTML)

Style listeners

Back End (PHP)

PHP event listeners

Service

Controller (front page)

Extension base (ext.php)

Control Panels

Administration control panel (ACP)

Moderator control panel (MCP)

User control panel (UCP)

Extras

Console command

Cron task

Notifications

Permissions

Testing & Deployment

Tests (PHPUnit)

Github Actions workflow

Github Actions custom workflow

Build script (phing)

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