vanilla (forum)
| Original author(s) | Mark O'Sullivan |
|---|---|
| Developer(s) | Todd Burry, Tim Gunter, Matt Lincoln Russell, Klaus Burton |
| Initial release | 1 July 2006 |
| Stable release | 2.0.18.2 / January 22, 2012 |
| Written in | PHP |
| Operating system | Cross Platform |
| Platform | PHP / MySQL |
| Size | 7 MB |
| Available in | Official support for English, Multilingual |
| Type | Forum software |
| License | Open Source, GNU GPL[1] |
| Website | www.vanillaforums.org |
Vanilla is a light weight Internet forum package written in the PHP scripting language. It is released under the GNU GPL.[1] Vanilla Forums are open-source, standards-compliant, customizable discussion forums.
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[edit] Features
Vanilla is an open-source, pluggable, themable, multi-lingual community-building solution.
- Users can easily set up and maintain a full-featured discussion forum.
- Forum hosting is free with advertising, which can be removed for a fee.
- Forum is hosted at a subdomain of Vanillaforums.com – custom subdomains are available for a fee.
- A variety of themes can be applied to the forum.
- User can define categories for the forum and registration type for users.
- There are many addons that can be added to the core to extend the functionality
[edit] History
[edit] Vanilla 1
The Core of Vanilla is very light-weight, but there are many plugins available. There are Extensions for Chat, Private Messages, "Who's Online", Attachments and many more.
Vanilla 1 is still being actively developed alongside Vanilla 2.
The latest version is 1.3.0 which was released on February 17th, 2012.
[edit] Vanilla 2
Vanilla 2 is a complete rewrite of Vanilla grounded on the framework Garden (like "what's growing in your Garden"). It's object oriented, modular, extentional and modern.[citation needed]
It's claimed to be easy to switch to Vanilla 2 because there are import scripts for most of the popular forum systems
New core features since Vanilla 2
- <embed> Vanilla (embed your Forum anywhere via JavaScript)
- Vanilla API
- Social Connect
- Vanilla Mobile
- Vanilla Connect (Single Sign In)
- Themes
- Banner
- File Upload
- Import Tool (e. g. phpBB, vBulletin)
Garden is the framework on which Vanilla 2 is built. Its focus is building community scripts. A forum (what Vanilla 2 is) is only one possible way to use Garden.
[edit] Hosted Forums
The hosted version of Vanilla runs on the newest version of Vanilla and has all features of the next open source release.
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