Motilee: Symfony Powered Forum Engine Released Open Source
A new open-source project is born. It is called Motilee, and it is a forum engine written in PHP5 and symfony. Go take a look at the demo site and at the source code to see what it’s like.
Motilee is a symfony application built entirely from plugins. Take a sandbox, pour in the sfSimpleForumPlugin, the sfGuardPlugin, the sfLucenePlugin, the sfFeed2Plugin and a few others, add some documentation, and mix the whole for a few days. There you go, a complete application comes out of the server. Download it and install it as you wish. Motilee is free to use and released under the MIT license.
Motilee focuses on user experience and tries to propose a new approach to online discussions. Don’t focus too much on the graphical design, it will soon be reworked.
A stable release is yet to come, and the most important enhancements are already listed in the trac. Development is going pretty fast, and if you want to participate in the project, there is room for more developers. Drop me an email and I’ll open you an account in the trac.
Nice! its great to see more open source projects based on symfony. Specially this one showing the power of plugins =D.
On a side note, its odd to see the sensiolabs logo on the project page. I’d thought that you were no longer working there.
Not working there, but still in good terms. Sensio Labs provide hosting, project management and hopefully graphical design to Motilee. They’re my sponsor on this project!
Interesting project, however I notice it’s a full application. How does it integrate into existing symfony projects? Or should I just go the same route and install all those plugins on my own project instead of using Motilee?
Yes, this is a standalone application and it is not designed to fit into another application.
If you want to put a forum into an existing symony application, use the sfSimpleForum plugin.
Cool! Looks very good!
I’m getting into Symfony and this is typically the type of project i’d use this framework for; so are you planning on making a short tutorial on the techniques you used to put the basics in place (like a short description of “Take a sandbox, pour in the sfSimpleForumPlugin, the sfGuardPlugin, the sfLucenePlugin, the sfFeed2Plugin and a few others, add some documentation, and mix the whole for a few days.”)?
Thanks!
Nice work ! it is interesting to browse the source of a “real” symfony application.
however, i still wonder how to keep the code clean and tidy when the application gets bigger and bigger.
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Great work
I’m guessing that the core of Motilee will be sfSimpleForumPlugin ? I really hope so. Love the plugin
hm.. just wanna say thank you
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How does this full application differs from the forum plugin? What other modules are included?