Comments on: Garden & Vanilla 2 on GitHub Now

By: Luis Pirir

Luis Pirir — Sat, 19 Sep 2009 21:05:28 +0000

Nice, great work !

By: Mark

Mark — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 19:00:31 +0000

Hi Ismo, I built this framework because none of the other frameworks could do what I needed, and I didn’t want to start a fork of some other framework which I would eventually end up completely rewriting anyway.

Also, it’s not like I’m writing everything from the ground up. Vanilla 2 & Garden are built on many other solid open source projects: jQuery, Smarty, HtmlPurifier, phpass, and phpmailer to name a few.

By: Ismo

Ismo — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 12:59:52 +0000

Personally, I would have liked to see Vanilla 2 built on top of some more mature web framework instead of seeing the wheel getting reinvented again. I mean don’t get me wrong, but building and maintaining good web framework is a lot of work, if you really want it to succeed. So how do you justify creating a new framework instead of taking advantage of an existing one?

I did read through your mission statement to get some hints, but its not very specific about this matter.

By: Mark

Mark — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 17:12:56 +0000

@John – Beware, the master version is quite buggy. We’re working through all of the bugs to get it stable. Next week we should have a much more stable release available.

By: John (Human3rror)

John (Human3rror) — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 17:09:56 +0000

downloading. love what you’re doing.

By: Gary

Gary — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 12:37:14 +0000

Hey, how would i go about contacting you directly mark?

By: Mark

Mark — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 15:53:09 +0000

@S – Please use the github issue tracker now. I’m going to be taking the old one down.

By: S

Sat, 27 Jun 2009 15:50:10 +0000

Where is the place for reporintg bugs, suggestions, etc?
http://issues.gardenframework.com/
http://github.com/lussumo/Garden/issues

By: Gary

Gary — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 13:56:00 +0000

I’m loving the framework so far. Its almost one step up from codeigniter which i think is perfect for me. The ability to have all the plugins, user, permissions, other applications automated for me is a huge benefit. Hope the documentation is coming along. Especially the part about single signon. The ability to integrate the forum into other websites is a major factor in choosing a forum. I would imagine with the new framework there will be less of a need to hack parts of the code. For future applications i will definitely look into Garden framework more.

By: suliaman

suliaman — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 04:03:28 +0000

yeh wiked thanks mark, brillant work, big thank you from everyone in the Uk